Ray Bishop of Bishop Custom Design has been described as “a 12-year-old living in a 41-year-old’s body.” As a little boy, he loved to play with Hot Wheels and Match Box cars. He also loved assembling model cars and customizing them with his own designs. To turn the car into a piece of art, he’d
Even the most rudimentary study of the past reveals a gender imbalance. History teaches us that it is men who commit both glorious deeds and heinous acts, become famous or infamous, while women… watch. The women of the Zonta Club of Flint 1 feel differently, and five years ago they created the Genesee County Regional
The story of Irish immigration to America is one of many chapters in the tale of this country’s rise to greatness. Today, there are more people of Irish descent in America than there are in Ireland. The culture, knowledge, and beliefs that the Irish brought with them reaches back to eons long forgotten, but much
The Pre-St. Patrick’s Day party is a fundraiser held annually to raise money for Flint’s St. Patty’s Day Parade and festivities. Hosted by the parade’s Grand Marshal, the party features traditional Irish food and libations, Irish music performed live by Bill Tucker, and the Miss Hibernia Pageant, which awards nearly $2,000 in scholarships. The 2014
St. Patrick’s Day is all about drinking, kissing and wearing the color green, right? Wrong! “Most people gravely misunderstand the significance of the day and the symbols that accompany it, such as parades, the color green, and bagpipes,” says Bill Cavanaugh of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. “When my great-grandfather came to America, there were
James H. Whiting was born in Torrington, CT in 1842. He served in the 23rd Connecticut Infantry during the Civil War and afterwards made his way to Flint. In 1882, he became manager of the Begole, Fox & Company lumber mills, whose anemic outputs resulted from the severe depletion of timber surrounding the town. Whiting
Recessed within the main sanctuary of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is an alcove called The Five Sisters Chapel. Light shines through a large stained-glass window depicting five women preparing to enter a door to Christ, who stands waiting. A plaque on the wall dedicates the Chapel to the memory of Margaret McFarlan, Eliza Henderson, Almira
September 1, 1973 was the last Wild Wednesday of our live outdoor concert season at Davison’s Sherwood Forest. Chuck Berry closed the show with his famous “Duck Walk.” We proceeded to a friend’s house with several close acquaintances and kicked back till five a.m., then hit the air on WTAC with Mr. Berry co-hosting the
1. Flint has a year-round Farmers Market! 2. Free Art events: Saturdays are free at the FIA, and there’s a monthly Art Walk downtown! 3. Flint Children’s Museum and Sloan Museum have free days! 4. Free public ice skating at Atwood Stadium! 5. Lots of small, home-town restaurants to choose from! 6. Flint has a
“However [political parties]may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which
Winter was just a little warmer and much sweeter for women all over Genesee County on Saturday February 8 after they attended the ninth annual Wine Women & Chocolate, a fundraiser of IMA Recreation Association and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Flint. And the guys weren’t left out in the cold as the
Here’s what Flint is saying about the January issue of My City Magazine [twocol_one]“Just received our newest issue. LOVE this magazine! Keep up the great work.” Martin W. Jennings “January’s article from Peter C. Cavanaugh is the best regional rock article I have ever read. As a former Detroit rocker of that era, I say
