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Monday, March 8, 2021

1970s Flint Fashion: Purple Satin St. Mary's Jacket

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1970s Fashion: Purple Satin Jacket

Distance Pain

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"In Wales, for example, Welsh is spoken by barely 20 percent of the population, so we can only hope that the evocative Welsh word hir...

Flint on Film: 1940 Parade

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Friday, March 5, 2021

Flint Photos: Ben's Barber Shop, Pierson Road

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Flint Photos: North Land Drive-In, Dort Highway

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Order the updated paperback edition of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City

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The revised and updated paperback edition of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City is available now at   Amazon  and other booksellers. Or o...
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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Hillside Chevy Nova

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An iconic Chevy Nova, hillside in the smoke and fog, on Dalewood Way near Mt. Davidson in San Francisco.
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Sky Blue Buick Electra

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Buick Electra 225, complete with gold spoke rims on Terry Francois Blvd. in San Francisco.
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Black Lives Matter

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Photographer Jake May of MLive.com highlights local artists and volunteers who painted a Black Lives Matter mural on a block of Martin L...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Come what may, this is where we'll remain, in this world with one moon

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Just finished Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, which I guess is my official coronavirus novel. Started it when things were normal, chopped u...
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