Flight Paths Project
How I Tried to Leave
"My mother said, ‘Always leave a job to where maybe you could go back to it.'" https://youtu.be/vOA-j4N2EmE Transcript for How I Tried to Leave My mother said, “Always leave a job to where maybe you could go back to it.”...
Back Then, It Mattered
"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
Remember Where You Came From
"You can never forget who you are." https://youtu.be/FYjndEmJH4c Transcript for Remember Where You Came From I say to my grandkids all the time, you can never forget who you are, but you have to remember where you come from. You...
The Strike at Froebel
"We were in school one day, the next day when we went back, the entire white population of students were gone." https://youtu.be/YDhAJ6NxNC8 Transcript for The Strike at Froebel I was totally shocked when I moved to Gary. For the simple...
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
"The guy who was over the department...said that I might have some problems because they had never had anybody black in the office." https://youtu.be/qKy4UZsE6vw Transcript for Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained When I graduated from high school, I got a job...
Should Play Nicer
"Don’t give me this disillusioned, glossy effect of who we are. This is who we really are." https://youtu.be/Q7R6SHcvsR8 Transcript for Should Play Nicer Good neighbors. That’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? I think it is. All the counties in Northwest...
Memory in the Light of These Sources
"You can’t come in with your history book and bang people over the head… It’s going to be more dialogical than that." https://youtu.be/m7hl0k0P0ZE Dr. Heath W. Carter, Historian Transcript for Memory in the Light of These Sources Part of what...
No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress
"Why don’t you come to Gary and see what Gary really is?" https://youtu.be/YPOfcFVlWx4 Transcript for No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress You know—city services are based on tax revenue and if you don’t have enough people who are paying...
Resilience of the Residents
"I’m talking about people in my neighborhood who have been in their homes for forty years—they believe in the city and believe that it can work. https://youtu.be/mP-MnM6cszU Transcript for Resilience of the Residents Well, you know, I used to always...