Nov 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Shirley If you are new to the USA, it might interest you to know some basic information about the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, with a special meal shared by family and friends. How it started It is generally...
Nov 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Robyn With the approach of Thanksgiving, we think of feasts, families, and friendships. Not just traditional American feasts, like turkey and pumpkin pie, but all the wonderful foods our International Neighbors have brought us. Ega Dioni Putri, from Indonesia,...
Nov 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Marja It was a bleak, gray November day in Germany many years ago. I had started my postgraduate studies at a German university a few weeks before in October when the winter term had begun. I was standing at a bus stop close to my home and was waiting for a bus...
Nov 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Martha B. Cultural Encounters Organizers International Neighbors held our first-ever Art Fair in October and it was wildly successful!! The event, open to all IN members, was organized by the Cultural Encounters group. According to the group coordinator, Maja R,...
Nov 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Dale & Shirley “Living in Ann Arbor – A Guidebook for International Families” is, as the name suggests, a guidebook prepared by International Neighbors in the hope that it would be helpful to visitors from all parts of the world during their stay here. It was...
Oct 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Marja Rituals of Death in the Era of Hidden Death Western cultures tend to view death as a feared enemy that can be defeated by modern medicine and fancy high-tech machines. The 20th century banished mortality from social life and converted it to a taboo. Death no...
Oct 8, 2021 | Events, Featured Articles
By Phyllis Similar to Finland, Halloween in America evolved from Samhain, a celebration marking the end of summer and the harvest. The celebration took place on the evening of October 31, which was New Year’s Eve to the Celts. It was believed the boundaries between...
Oct 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Marcy With the changing colors of the autumn season, we look forward to one of America’s favorite holidays, Halloween. Celebrated on October 31, Halloween gives our children a chance to pretend they are someone else when they put on a costume and mask to assume a...
Oct 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
By Martha V. Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican celebration commemorated on November 1st. and 2nd. The first day is for dead children and the second for dead adults. Día de los Muertos has its origin in pre-Hispanic times (before the European colonization). At that time,...
Oct 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Fall is upon us and that means it is apple season. Michigan is a big producer of apples. You will find many different varieties of apples in the stores: Braeburn (great for snacking or baking), McIntosh (a little tart), Cortland (similar to McIntosh but a little...
