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Photo of the Week: Nancy Brown Peace Carillon

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Yellow yarrow and orange butterfly flowers lay a carpet in front of the gray stone Nancy Brown Peace Carillon, blue sky with wispy white clouds in the background.

As you travel the outer road around Belle Isle State Park near the Detroit River boat channel between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, Canada, you can’t miss the tall gray tower north of the road.

When I saw the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon this week, gorgeous early summer blooms of yarrow and orange butterfly milkweed in Oudolf Garden Detroit created a beautiful carpet of color in front of the tower.

Dedicated to peace, the 85-foot tall neo-Gothic tower has a rich history.

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Photo of the Week: March For Our Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Listening to speeches, a woman and man sit next to each other in lawn chairs. The back of the chairs have handpainted signs saying Enough is Enough and How Many More. In the background, other marchers sit on concrete ledge.

Four years after attending March For Our Lives in Monroe, Michigan, I never dreamed I’d be attending another March For Our Lives event.

The student-led demonstration in support of gun-control legislation was held in March 2018, one month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Yet, here we are.

Again.

Four years later.

Gathering together to share our outrage with lack of gun control legislation by our states and Congress.

Yesterday’s March For Our Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan was one of hundreds of local marches held throughout the United States protesting continuing mass shootings and gun violence in our communities and schools.

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