By Gary Fisher PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENESEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY   Last month, we started our journey exploring the 10 Greatest of All Time (GOAT) high school football teams in area history. This month, we continue with numbers 6 through 10 and our Honorable Mention teams. To recap, our Top Five GOAT High School Football

By Gary Fisher PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENESEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friday night lights. High school football season. Few things are more American, and few places have produced a football tradition as rich as Flint and Genesee County. The football talent produced in the Flint area includes Hall of Famer and NFL career interceptions leader Paul

For five decades, families, schoolchildren, and visitors from across Michigan have stepped back in time at Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad, where the sights, sounds, and traditions of the 19th century continue to come alive just outside Flint. Now, the beloved historical attraction is celebrating a major milestone. Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad — part

PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENESEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The rich history of Flint sports is well known across the country. From Ricky Leach, Glen Rice, and Jimmy Abbott to Mateen Cleaves, Grant Fisher, Geena Gall Levoe, Pam Stockon Brady, Deanna Nolan, Claressa Shields, and Mark Ingram Jr., it’s an unbelievably long and distinguished list — almost

Photos courtesy of Genesee County Historical Society The 2025 World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers was one of the best of all time — and it has the TV ratings to prove it. The 11-inning finale, won by the Dodgers, drew 51 million viewers across the United States, Japan

PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENESEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) and one of the most-watched sporting events in the world. Flint area’s rich Super Bowl history was born on the playgrounds and parks of Flint and Genesee County. From Kearsley Park to Forest Park, from

From bustling downtown parades to mall madness and modern-day memories — a look back at how generations have celebrated the holidays together Christmas in Flint and Genesee County through the years tells a layered story — one of industrial prosperity and later economic challenge; of community tradition in a city shaped by the auto industry;

There was just one television receiver in Flint in October 1947. It was built by two employees of the Sheldon Radio and Appliance Shop. It didn’t matter much, because there was only one TV station to watch in all of Michigan at the time. Detroit’s WWJ-TV had signed on VHF channel 4 as an NBC

Inside the warm and welcoming, mahogany-paneled confines of the Flint Industrial Savings Bank, the dapper bank executives gathered around an impressive mahogany table. Outside, the autumn winds were blowing through that October of 1929, and soon a seismic change across America—and the world—would arrive. But inside the conference room, the executives’ designer leather shoes remained

The “big idea” started in 1923 with physical education instructor Wilbur P. Bowen. In his class was a young man named Frank Manley, who absorbed every single word and philosophy that Bowen put forth. Chiefly among those ideas was the notion that athletics was such an enormous social good, that it was a key to

“This is NOT a drill! This is NOT a drill!” The voice over the radio at the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 squawked America’s entry into World War Two. As the bombs from the Japanese sneak attack rained down on the unsuspecting ships and sailors below – killing 2,403 of