City Of Dearborn Michigan

Museum offers tales of Arabs since 9/11

Museum offers tales of Arabs since 9/11

DETROIT — In a Michigan city where events in the Middle East hit home, a museum launched a month-long exhibit Saturday featuring stories and photos by mostly Arab-American middle school students chronicling their lives as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaches.

The exhibit, "In the Heart of Arab America: A Middle School Perspective," kicked off with an afternoon reception at the Arab American National Museum in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, which has one of the nation's largest and best-known Arab communities. Seventh-grade journalism students from McCollough-Unis School created the exhibit during the last school year through a project sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association called The Living Textbook. The goal was to help students — nearly all of whom are Arab-American — learn about journalism and write stories about their community. Although the anniversary of the terrorist attacks serves as a backdrop, the exhibits largely reflect another reality: The students are among the first Americans to grow up with no memory of life before Sept. 11, 2001. Some students dealt with the topic in their artwork, though most opted to capture everyday events, such as fellow classmates at work and play, Detroit Tigers' games and Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings — including hummus and tabbouleh.

Veteran wins pit spitting competition

EAU CLAIRE — A nine-time winner has taken top honors in the annual cherry pit spitting contest in southwestern Michigan.

Brian "Young Gun" Krause of Dimondale spit a pit 66 feet, 1½ inches Saturday for his second consecutive win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. Owner Herb Teichman launched the tourney as a lark nearly four decades ago. It now attracts competitors from the U.S. and beyond.

Winning names for eagles announced

MONROE — A Michigan utility has announced the winning names of bald eagle chicks living near two of the company's plants, and the Independence Day holiday must have helped the four candidates soar to the top.

DTE Energy Co. announced the winners from its online poll were Spirit, Freedom, Honor and Grace. The utility said it received more than 600 votes on its Facebook page and the quartet captured 32 percent of the total vote.

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