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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4)

Almost to the end.

I’m allowing myself a closing argument.

Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 3 of 4)

I have no idea why this space is configured this way; it’s located flush to the east side of the fourth floor of the main building, and a ladder adjacent to the entry runs up to the roof. The floorboards on the paths running around this space are rickety and not to be trusted.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 2 of 4)

So I thought that I could get through this sucker in two posts, but that ain’t gonna happen. I’ll go for three posts and a short epilogue. Continuing on:

It’s the Liberty Bell!

To the balcony…

A better view of the theater.

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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 1 of 4)

I have a lot of stories to tell from the last couple months… things got away from me during the job search. It’s not like I expect everyone to want to pore over my life story. This blog is basically a record of my experiences.

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BODY: Soothe, by the Smashing Pumpkins.

I think that for many of us the lyrics to Soothe by the Smashing Pumpkins represents the possibility, if not the ideal, of what we can realistically hope for when it comes to dealing with ugly situations in the past and present.

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Event: Sad Change, Scary Change.

I know that week is probably just one among many for the U.S. and for the world, but the news has been rough for me personally on a number of fronts:

Chicago’s greatest parade will be shutting down after 50 years.

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Event: We Say Petraeus, Sallust Says Petreius

Evidently, Sallust was also familiar with a General Petraeus:

When he had satisfied himself on every point, Petreius sounded the signal and ordered the cohorts to advance slowly, and the same movement was made by the enemy. On reaching a distance at which the light troops could engage, the two armies raised a great shout and charged each other, standard to standard.

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Body: A haunted castle

that will soon be a ghost itself.

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