Book cover with running man, vintage photo.

Running

Around

Town

by Stephen K. Postema

This collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy growing up in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Part coming-of-age impressions, part family and societal portraits in miniature, part love story, Running Around Town is ultimately a tapestry of transformative everyday interactions, woven together with the cultural influences and music of the times,

About the author

Stephen K. Postema is a graduate of Ann Arbor Schools, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin Law School. An Ann Arbor townie, born and raised.

He served as the Ann Arbor City Attorney from 2003 to 2022. He is a practicing lawyer, mediator, and writer and speaker on legal topics. He lives in the Old West Side house that he bought in 1988, with his Golden Retriever/Chow Chow mix, Coco.

The summer of 1976, he ran on every street in Ann Arbor, just because he wanted to.

Vintage photo of child
Man with glasses

Contact the author at skpostema@gmail.com