This week marks the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s death on June 3, 2016. This is the essay I wrote the week he died. Muhammad Ali was many things to many people: legendary boxer, Olympic Gold Medalist, conscientious objector, generous philanthropist. For me, and the other residents of my hometown of Berrien Springs, Michigan, he was something more — he was our neighbor. For over three decades, Ali was known as the “greatest” resident of our tiny town (population of 1,800). He