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The Peaceable Kingdom
210 South Main Street
Urban Fairy door appeared
April 17, 2005

Sadly, The Peaceable Kingdom closed in May of 2017, after 44 years in Ann Arbor.

The urban-fairy door is still there, for now ... December 2018

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Peaceable Kingdom < (click to see PK web-site)
210 South Main Street
Sorry
They are Closed
Peaceable Kingdom is a fantasic gift store! There is something for most anyone. My wife and I have always loved shopping there. I am not suprised that this would be a place intriguing and inviting to urban fairies.
Urban Fairy door appeared
April 17, 2005
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This particular location is especially cool. The fairies have set up a "store" of their own inside. I call it a store, but there appears to be little commerce going on. They only accumulate items.

It has been my contention that the fairies do not have any concept of property or any business sense what-so-ever. They certainly do not keep regular business hours. From what I have seen the fairies have attention spans to match their size.

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What's inside!
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The shelves and cases are loaded with stuff!
There are; birdskulls, wire nuts, coins, toys, baby teeth, a crayfish claw, a ring, an earring, acorns, a hand-made book about fairies, a rubber monkey, a plastic cocktail monkey, an origami crane, an egg, tickets, magnet construction pieces, a carved frog, push pins, 3 little pigs, a bigger pig, an enameled brass Ra, rocks & minerals, a small globe, 2 feathers, a plastic apple, an enamel tray and coffee pot, a Hebrew prayer, plastic springs, stickers, buttons, a safety pin, a weensie lizard, a silver pitcher, 2 hand sewn sacks, a wrapped present, some micro pom-poms, sea shells, A paper parasol, a beaded ring (crown?), beads, keys, a marble, round tiles, a rubber bee.......
AND the pair of miniature socks!
The stairs go down into the basement.
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September 12, 2005
Left rail inadvertantly broken off.
October 10, 2005
Right rail maliciously (?) broken to bits.
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May 16, 2006
The fairy "store"is considerably more crowded than the last interior photo! Many of the dropping from this and other locations can be seen in here....
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...including the buckets I saw OUTSIDE earlier in the same day!
And a favorite of mine:

The mini book, "Rainbow Magic"

by Savana

I had to check my note books for...
I first saw at Sweetwaters on
August 15, 2005!

7.27.06
Right spindle snapped and missing.
????
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1.10.07
FLAT FAIRIES arrive.
3.19.07
I was visiting Peaceable Kingdom after Saint Patrick's Day and noticed 2 new sets of windows on the opposite side of the store from the originals. I was sure I heard some noise, but the space was quite dark. When I illuminated the space with my fairy-finder-flashlight... I got quite a surprise! I thought I had spotted my first fairies. I took some pictures which reveal something almost as curious.
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Peaceable Kingdom fairy annex.
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In my excitement the first shot came out blurry.
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The next, showed me that they weren't fairies, though some of them have wings! They were perfectly still.
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When I uploaded them to my computer... in this foto it looks like the fella in the yellow hard hat has moved!
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I am pretty sure the blur is from MY jiggling rather than his.
  • Hmmmm... A Doozer™, some Fisher-Price guys and some trucks...

quite curious.

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more wings.
I received some beautiful photos from Myra Klarman:
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Peaceable Kingdom urban fairy door & passerby.
by Myra Klarman
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Jane Russel on the lookout
for urban fairies at Peaceable Kingdom.
by Myra Klarman
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4.25.07
So... I was checking out the Cheese nips and rubbery glow-in-the-dark fairy droppings at Peaceable Kingdom when I notice the vandalism!
Somebody kicked in the fairy door and split the wood.
Idjeets!
4.25.07
The same morning that I noticed the (latest) damage to the fairy door at Selo Shevel.
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9.18.07

The urban fairies remember
Jake Woods,

who passed away on

September 16th, 2007.

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9.22.09
After considerable wear and tear.and an actual TEAR (not crying, but ripping) the window shade had to be replaced.
The new one appears to be of better material and even has a pull ring.
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HALLOWEEN 2009
A very kind, talented and generous fairy finder in Texas sent some wonderful sculpts for the urban fairies this Halloween!

< Clik on the picture on the left to see the raven up close!
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Those are hand sculpted Acorns!
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June 20, 2011
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December 2017

The fairy car was in the window at The Peaceable Kingdom, for a while. It might be getting a new garage/workshop at FOUND gallery... at some point (since FOUND moved, the fairies have been having a tough time relocating, though it's only about 200 yards away!)

The fairy car was built with quite a few pieces and parts that they appropriated from FOUND... they *FOUND* cool stuff there.

Sadly, The Peaceable Kingdom closed in May of 2017, after 44 years in Ann Arbor.

The urban-fairy door is still there, for now ... December 2018

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The urban-fairies vacted their "store" in the spring of 2019.

They took their hoard with them!

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