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Do you believe? Fairies gardens provide joy Downriver during pandemic Val Dutton Wyandotte Warrior
Adeline Power sits near the fairy garden she and her mother Ryann created in their Wyandotte neighborhood
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Who believes in fairies? Many Downriver neighbors do and they are creating fairy gardens to lure the diminutive creatures to their yards and bring with them a little joy and magic. Perhaps not such a bad idea during a pandemic. Ryann Power’s fairy garden is at the base of a tree in her front yard in Wyandotte, near a sidewalk for strolling neighbors to easily view; those neighbors have responded by leaving gifts of their own to the tiny winged creatures, including a miniature penguin and a tiny basket of apples. “We watch people walk by and smile. It’s happy,” Power said. The English discovered the magic that fairies can bring in dark times, during war-
torn England in 1917, portrayed in the movie FairyTale: A True Story. Two little girls claim that fairies live in their village garden and take a picture, “proving” the fairies’ existence. Author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle, proclaimed himself a “believer.” Many others became believers, too, although the story was actually a wellintentioned hoax. But for months, everyone’s mood was lightened. Power saw the movie when she was younger and has a believer in her own household, her 5-year-old daughter, Adeline. Adeline wished to create a fairy garden for the fairy she calls “Clementine,” after she saw several fairy gardens in a Trenton neighborhood. In June, Power and her daughter created SEE FAIRIES, Page 3
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