Hidden History of Flint

Besides the Uncommon Sense, he also contributed articles for Your Magazine, the Flint Journal and Downtown Flint Revival magazine. Gary Flinn is a product of the Flint Community Schools and a graduate of Mott Community College and Michigan State University who has lived in the Flint area most of his life. . Gary is the autho

About the Author Gary Flinn is a product of the Flint Community Schools and a graduate of Mott Community College and Michigan State University who has lived in the Flint area most of his life. Gary is the author of Remembering Flint, Michigan, published by The History Press. . Besides the Uncommon Sense, he also contributed articles for Your Magazine, the Flint Journal and Downtown Flint Revival magazine. His earliest writings were for Flint Central High School publications the Tribal Tim

Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise. Gary Flinn showcases the obscure and surprising elements of the Vehicle City's past, including how the 2014 water crisis was a half century in the making.. And the city's most prolific inventor, Lloyd Copeman, created the electric stove, flexible ice cube tray and automatic toaster. Smith-Bridgman's, the largest department store in town, reigned supreme for more than a century at the same location. Beneath Flint's auto history lies a buried past