East vs. West: A Fanciful Civil War in Ypsilanti
You should check out the May 20 entry at East Cross Street. Brian has a bit of fun imagining the Ypsilanti East-Siders going to war with the Westies, and even battling Ypsi Township insurgents.
Having settled on Ypsilanti's west side in the love-to-hate Normal Park neighborhood sometime after 1927, I can't fathom the animosity that the Eastie Boys feel toward us. Sure, Brian was joking, but when Eastsiders talk about this they're kidding on the square.
Let's all send Brian a message saying, "The East Will Rise Again! And That's Perfectly OK." Maybe that will help the sense of inadequacy that seems to come with every house on the East Side. The Westies don't give The Great Divide a single thought.
posted by Eric 3.0 @ 7:42 PM
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This east vs. west is something I keep hearing about. The Normal Park Assoc. is so well established, it is hard not to experience west end envy, but with Brian on our side, I feel we may advance eh?
Regarding schools and east vs. west:
I had kids attending east middle and west middle school the same year and still have not experience the rivalry. Well maybe the exception was when they oppose each other across the volley ball net, and on the track and playing fields. Competition was intense and fears actually were raised this year at the thought of sports consolidation (there is that word again. Fearful of forays across the geographical barrier. Me? I just wanted our east end kids to get to the sporting event at all. (on the west side)
Interestingly they all meld pretty well at YHS.
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