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I will try to get permission and post pictures I have taken of people finding the fairy doors.
I will also post photos which are sent to me if permission to do so is given. |
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7.25.06
Fairy-finder(s) at Sweetwaters Café So there I was having a mocha at Sweetwaters and what I thought was a group of 3 women came up and took some pictures of the fairy door and poster there. They had a map of the urban fairy doors and as it turned out 2 other partners in "crime". |
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A short while later as I drove to work...I see the group again at the Ark. I stopped and commented that they were "touring kind of early as Voila and Peaceable Kingdom did not open 'til 10 AM" (it was 9:30?). The response was that they were playing hooky! OooooooooOOOoooooo!! BUSTED! |
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8.16.06
Fairy-finder , Evan at Sweatwaters Café (his trailing end) |
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Fairy-finders, Eliza & Evan at Sweatwaters Café (their front ends) |
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Fairy-finder , Evan at Sweatwaters Café (making an entry in the journal guestbook) |
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8.17.06
Fairy-finder Crowd at Sweatwaters Café |
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"Paiges peek at Peaceable Kingdom
(while Jane keeps watch)" Fairy-finders, Paige Ellis and Paige Bacon. sent by Susan Ellis, Paige's mom... no, not that Paige, the other one. |
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9.09.06
Seamus (2 years old), Mom and Grandma at The Ark My family just happened to be downtown when this group showed up. A significant group in the mystery of urban fairies as it turns out. |
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10.21.06
Fairy Finders at Red Shoes I was visiting Catherine Thursby at Red Shoes and restocking her urban fairy posters and cards. During the visit quite a few fairy finders happened by. The young lady above was very gentle with the door, asking before she opened the inner door. |
10.21.06
Fairy Finders at Red Shoes This young lady knew quite a bit about fairy doors, she knew how many there were and had visited several already. |
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| On November 5, 2006 The day after finding the fairy door at the Ann Arbor District Library, I discovered fairy-finders there. The younger lady had a bit of conversation with the bookshelf. |
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November 26
The Fairy Welcome! event at the library was a lot of fun! |
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Laura Raynor & Elizabeth Schneider
Told a wonderful fairy story and did some enthusiastic, interactive fairy chant/songs. |
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Looked like a pretty good turn out of children, adults and fairies of varies sizes (maybe 150?).
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After the stories between doing a fairy wand construction craft, the fairy door was visited by quite a crowd.
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... a very civilized crowd.
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There was even a phairy photografer >>>
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(I loved the phairy's colors against the teal wall)
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Some found all this interest in fairies exceedingly exhausting.
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When it was my turn to peek in,
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This is where it (fairy doors) all began — the concept, the phenomenon. This site is all about the Fairy Doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan (the original fairy doors) and what illustrator, Jonathan b. Wright , certified fairyologist, discovers about them. It includes photographs of the Fairy Doors, comments in the Fairy Journals, Observations and speculations about the Fairies. Tiny Doors, Urban Fairies®, Faery, Faeries, Fairy, Fairies, miniature doors, tiny doors, little doors, tiny fairy doors, little fairy doors, little faery doors, tiny faery doors, weensy doors, Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, Peaceable Kingdom, Jefferson Market, The Ark, The Ann Arbor Framing Company, Selo Shevel Gallery, Lakewood Elementary Kindergarten, Fairy ticket window, Found Gallery, Mott Children's Hospital, The Michigan Theater, Google Offices, Nicola's Books, Found Gallery, Flying Pumpkin Cottage, fairy entrances, fairy windows, fairy spaces, fairy store, fairy shop, Flat Fairies, Clarence the Bridge Troll, fairy droppings. The site will be updated frequently with new excerpts from the Fairy Journals, New fairy sightings, Specifics about each location a fairy map. Any new knowledge of the fairy activity will be passed along by Jonathan. Also on this site are some hidden fairy surprises and a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Fairies. There is a brief history of how Jonathan became involved with the Urban Fairies®. There are links to local publications about the Urban Fairy® phenomenon. Jonathan is currently writing several books on the fairies in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen, who coincidentally has found a fairy door in her kindergarten classroom. Hopefully it will be fun and informative to come back and see what's new with the Urban Fairies of Ann Arbor.
THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL FAIRY DOORS
of the turn of the (last) century
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