Flint: An Indian Reservation? -- Gary and the Technicolor Dream Capote -- Early Theater and Shakespeare in Flint -- Flint's Cross-Dressing Civil War Soldier -- Forgotten Thread Lake -- Billy Durant: A Riches to Rags Story -- J. Dallas Dort: Businessman, Flint Booster, Music Maven -- William A. Paterson: Carriage Maker, Auto Builder, Real Estate Developer -- Smith-Bridgman's: Flint's Largest Department Store -- The Michigan School for the Deaf: Then and Now -- Redeveloping "Chevy in the Hole" -- Flint's Annexation History -- Recalling Flint's Dairy Industry -- James Hurley: Businessman and Humanitarian -- Lloyd Copeman: Flint's Most Prolific Inventor -- When Marxism Came to Flint -- The Former Flint City Cemetery Site and Avondale Cemetery's Pioneer's Row -- The Executive Homes on East Kearsley Street -- Playing the Palace -- Flint Northern High School: Home of the State Champs -- Atwood Stadium -- Berston Field House: Incubator of Champions -- The Union Industrial Bank Scandal -- The History of Huntington National Bank -- The Flint Farmers' Market -- If Blackstone's Pub's Walls Could Talk -- The Flint Cultural Center -- War Hero Owen Hammerberg, Hammerberg Road and "The Rock" -- The First Flint Water Scandal -- Sherwood Forest: Recreation Area, Rock Concert Venue, Dinner Theater -- For-Mar Nature Preserve: Nature Thrives in the City -- Genesee Towers: Flint's White Elephant -- Action Auto: It Seemed Like a Good Idea in the Late 1970s -- The Statues of Flint -- The Second Flint Water Scandal.;"Beneath Flint's auto history lies a buried past. Local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise. Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Smith-Bridgman's, the largest department store in town, reigned supreme for more than a century at the same location. And the city's most prolific inventor, Lloyd Copeman, created the electric stove, flexible ice cube tray and automatic toaster. 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."--Page 4 of cover.