Discovering Endover

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Indeed, the 2,400-pound, eight-foot-tall COR-TEN steel sculpture is so endearing that Rosenthal’s first version was hijacked on its way to Ann Arbor. That sculpture, Alamo, proved so popular that what was supposed to be a temporary installation in Manhattan turned permanent.

Kathleen Kennedy, who passes Endover daily, reports that she’s “seen it dressed up like a Rubik’s Cube and one of a pair of dice.” And few passersby can resist giving it a whirl, from university presidents to a runner caught on film as he completed the infamous Naked Mile in 1997.

The winning entrant, Cathy Chow, will receive a copy of Jonathan Marwil’s A History of Ann Arbor.   

[Originally published in June, 2009.]