Broken Hallelujah

'Fairy Door' Phenomenon

For many, they are merely a passing flight of fancy, flittering about the childhood imagination and dissolving on impact into skeptical adulthood. Who in their right mind believes in fairies? Well, for fairy researcher Jonathan Wright, a 46-year-old storyteller and illustrator, and fellow residents of the quaint but quirky Michigan town of Ann Arbor (all of whom are in full control of their mental faculties), fairies are as real as the tiny doors that have been mysteriously popping up around town - numbering at least 20 to date.

There is a brief history of how Jonathan became involved with the Urban Fairies. There are links to local publications about the Urban Fairy phenomenon. Jonathan is currently writing several books on the fairies in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen, who coincidentally has found a fairy door in her kindergarten classroom.

Ann Arbor, MI, which happens to be one of the coolest cities on the planet, is not surprisingly home to many of these 'fairy doors'.

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