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1931 – The Players move into the Civic Auditorium on Park Street, a gift of W.E. Upjohn to the city. The theatre was state of the art for the time. The theatre was state of the art for the time. In October of that year, their first show of the 1931-1932 season was a staging of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Constant Wife".
The closing of such a historic part of Kalamazoo began to mobilize community members. Efforts to save the theatre from a tragic end were pursued by several local entrepreneurs and preservationists. Local arts groups and city officials formed the "Save the State" committee in an effort to preserve the theatre's legacy along with the building. [8]
List of mayors of Kalamazoo, Michigan # Term Mayor 1 1884 Allen Potter: 2 1885 Edwin W. DeYoe 3 1886-1887 Peyton Ranney 4 1887-1889 Otto Ihling 5 1890 William E. Hill 6 1891 Frederick Bush 7 1892 William E. Hill 8 1893-1894 James W. Osborn 9 1895 Otto Ihling 10 1896 James Monroe 11 1897-1898 Allan M. Stearns 12 1899 William G. Howard 13 1900-1901
Mary K. Buck, author (lived and died in Traverse City) Bonnie Jo Campbell, author (born in Kalamazoo) Jaqueline Carey, fantasy author (resides in Michigan) Mary A. Cornelius (1829–1918), author, social reformer (born in Pontiac) Katherine Cowley, taught at Western Michigan University; James Oliver Curwood, novelist and conservationist (born ...
He served four consecutive terms as the Mayor of Kalamazoo from 1997 to 2005. A Democrat , he was elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives in 2006 and 2008, representing the 60th District in Kalamazoo County , which includes the City of Kalamazoo , Cooper Township and part of Kalamazoo Township .
FILE - Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin listens to lawyer Rob McDuff, an attorney for Parents For Public Schools, during a hearing in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23, 2022.
(When J. D. Salinger died, in 2010, letters surfaced in which even he griped about what was wrong with the show.) The show's cast members and writers have speculated for years about the secret ...
Bronson Park Historic District contains Bronson Park itself, the city's public square, as well as seventeen surrounding structures. These structures are some of Kalamazoo's oldest and most architecturally significant governmental, civic, and religious structures. These include the following: 302 Academy Street - First Reformed Church