In 1834, Flint River was a small but busy settlement. It was a place of passage with travelers stopping for the night before heading north to Saginaw and beyond. Due to this traffic, it was becoming quite a place of commerce and, seeing opportunity, persons were quickly buying up available land. Homesteads were being built
Between 1811 and 1831, Flint was nothing more than a few dwellings concentrated near the Flint river. The two most notable being Jacob Smith’s Trading Post and Todd’s Tavern. The dwellings were located on the best place to cross the Flint River on a traveler’s path from Detroit to Saginaw. Two such travelers on this
Everyone knows about Flint’s first settler, Jacob Smith, and his trading post but the establishment built along the river by Flint’s first family gained more notoriety during the time. Todd’s Tavern was a hotel and eatery set up by John and Polly Todd in 1830. The Todd family moved to Flint after visiting Smith’s trading
As 2009 ended, America’s populace looked forward to returning to a more calm and prosperous time. That, frustratingly, was not to be. Climate and the environment were the major focus when in 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded causing multiple deaths and the biggest oil spill in U.S.
Since most of us can remember, Halloween has always been celebrated as a time of costumes, candy, thrills and ghost stories. It is something adults and children look forward to every year. When October begins, one of the first questions we ask our children is, “what do you want to be for Halloween?” while pondering
Some interesting things have happened in the month of October over the years. October 1 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida in 1971. October 2 The Twilight Zone premiered in 1959. In 1950, Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz first appeared in newspapers. October 3 Frank Robinson became major leagues baseball’s first black manager
For the United States, the first decade of the new millennium was an extremely chaotic time. It began with a hotly-contested and disputed presidential election. Vice President, Al Gore, took on George W. Bush in an election campaign that started a slight ideological divide in the nation that would become a chasm in the future. The
Perspective in America began to shift in the ‘90s. While the ‘80s represented the self and the actualization of domestic concern, leadership in the ‘90s began to look outside the border and beyond. In 1990, NASA released the Hubble Telescope into orbit to gain an unobstructed view of the universe and its deployment has been
Economic confidence was high at the beginning of the 1980s. Wall Street and the banking industry were set to explode and when Reagan trounced Carter in the general election, the days of big business began. The excess of the 1980s was not simply limited to capitalism. The “Miracle on Ice” occurred at the 1980 Olympic
At 7pm on October 20, 1919, Major Albert Sobey unlocked the door to his classroom for the first time. His students were workers from all walks of life who made the journey to Flint with the hope of a better life through the auto industry and General Motors. All of them decided to attend a
The 60s and 70s were a tide of change for our nation. The chaos of the 60s reached a crescendo in 1970 when the Ohio National Guard opened fire at students of Kent State University as they protested the Vietnam war, killing four. At this point, support for the war began to rapidly erode. Public
The tumultuous sixties began innocently. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election over Richard M. Nixon by the slimmest of margins causing a majority of Americans to envision a clearly promising and progressive future; but by 1962, that vision grew a little hazy during the bleak, fear-ridden days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The
