Music tends to become a part of our hearts. Gregg Emerson Powell’s heart is attracted to the deep lull of the double bass – an instrument that, he claims, is the core of a piece of music, the “crust” of the pizza. Although he did not start playing the bass until the age of 22, he has enjoyed many significant accomplishments; one such success was getting his first gig just six months after becoming proficient with the instrument.
We all have a little bit of “I want to save the world” in us. Of course, “the world” sometimes ends up meaning something different than what we originally thought; “the world” could be a friend, a family, a community. For Samantha Pascal, it is her hometown in Haiti, which she left five years ago.
In 2013, the Artomotive Program was formed between the Back to the Bricks Statue Committee, the Flint and Genesee Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Greater Flint Arts Council to raise funds for the Automotive Pioneers Statue Project, in which Joe Rundell contributes his statues of Flint’s founding fathers (see p. 46).
From April 4-11 1947, a combination of melting snow, moderate-to-intense spring thunderstorms, and increased runoff resulted in downtown Flint’s Saginaw Street being submerged under chilly spring water, splitting downtown in half.
