Running Around Town

<p><strong>This collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor Michigan.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Running Around Town</em> brings funny and quirky insights into gentle focus with a lens on the small things in life that bring purpose and make us human.</p><p>Our perennially curious narrator describes his small but teeming domain extending to the University of Michigan Diag and the people who influenced him: The clerks at Discount Records who provide musical advice. A cashier who sells him a peace sign necklace at Middle Earth. The folk musicians at The Ark. U-M basketball star Cazzie Russell.</p><p>And importantly: A policeman neighbor who bails him out of situational predicaments. And a classmate a bibliophile who teaches him to sing in tune and passes him a note in history class at Pioneer High School.</p><p></p><p>Part coming-of-age impressions part family and societal portraits in miniature part love story <em>Running Around Town</em> is ultimately a tapestry of transformative everyday interactions woven together with the cultural influences and music of the times.</p>