Flint Through The Decades Part 8 Searching for an Answer 1980-1989
Economic confidence was high at the beginning of the 1980s. Wall Street…
Browsing: My History
100 Years of Kettering University A Brief History
At 7pm on October 20, 1919, Major Albert Sobey unlocked the door…
Flint Through The DecadesPart 7: A Time of Transition 1970-1979
The 60s and 70s were a tide of change for our nation.…
Flint Through The Decades Part 6: Change is Gonna Come (1960-1969)
The tumultuous sixties began innocently. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential…
Flint Through the Decades Part 5: A Shining Example of Community and Culture (1950-1959)
In the early 1950s, war again populated the headlines. The Red…
Flint Through the Decades Part Four: Conflict and Recovery (1940-1949)
The world was in turmoil. In the last months of 1939,…
Flint Through the Decades Part Three Changing the Nation (1930-1939)
As the Roaring Twenties came to a close, apprehension about what…
Flint Through the Decades Part Two Growth and Prosperity (1920-1929)
The city was crowded – people came from all over the…
Flint Through the Decades Part One Industry Awakens (1900-1919)
The air was clean and filled with the sound of birds, the…
From Civil War to WWI The Saga of the Flint Union Greys
On April 12 1861, General Beauregard of the newly-formed confederate army,…