Flint, MI – Sloan Museum of Discovery launched a new oral history program during a private Discovery Society Social donor event this month. “Vehicle City Stories” oral history program preserves the history and people of Flint and Genesee County through recorded interviews that focus on a specific event or particular experience. Currently, there are thirty completed oral history videos located at SloanLongway.org/
“Vehicle City Stories” was created and curated by Sloan’s Curator of Collections Malcolm Cottle. “As a curator, my role is interpretation of history and historical events. But these oral histories don’t need interpretation. They are real people telling their stories, in their own voices. This new platform creates a place for community voices to be shared and preserved, including underrepresented voices from our history,” Cottle said of the new project.
Viewers can watch oral histories from former residents of Flint’s historical St. John Street and Southside neighborhoods, the Arab-American community in partnership with the Arab-American Heritage Council (AAHC), former Genesee Bank President William Piper and the late Reliable Furniture entrepreneur Harry Binder who passed away at 100 years old a few months following the interview. There are also recorded stories from residents about Ojibwe culture, the UAW, the Water Crisis, Flint advocacy, Michigan School for the Deaf and more.
Vehicle City Stories was generously supported by the Binder and Hurand Families. Learn more at SloanLongway.org/
