Flight Paths Project
Before the Floodgates Opened
"I will call some agents out there and see what's available, but I want to let you know what times we're living in." https://youtu.be/ipBby9naDwQ Transcript for Before the Floodgates Opened Open housing just opened the floodgates and made it possible...
Things Like That, They Happened
"You kind of adjusted… we didn’t like it. We just, we kind of adjusted." https://youtu.be/E9wjSZH8shw Transcript for Things Like That, They Happened We grew up in the neighborhood that was near Pulaski School. And at the time that I went,...
Proud of Where You Came From
"I wanted to [write] a book where people would say, 'Oh, man, I loved that book, I want to go see where it took place...'"
Produced by Rich Elliott. Transcript for Proud of...
The Signs Were Not There
"We used to say this was 'up South,' and, you know, the other places were 'down South.'" https://youtu.be/5UZ4zGofi1c Transcript for The Signs Were Not There All of my folks—my father and my mother’s side, they were all from Florida. Gainesville,...
How We Ended Up Coming to Gary
"It was the dirtiest place in the mill. But I guess they made a decent salary. So he encouraged my father to leave Florida and move to Gary." https://youtu.be/3bUnw0wexeY Transcript for How We Ended Up Coming to Gary We grew...
Bethlehem Gave Up the Ghost
"We saw the writing on the wall, we knew it was coming."
Produced by Rich Elliott. Transcript for Bethlehem Gave Up the Ghost Bethlehem Steel's a conglomeration of other steel plants that were...
A Wonderful Childhood
"We had a village out there in Small Farms." https://youtu.be/aXd1nReZBxM Transcript for A Wonderful Childhood I grew up in the Midtown section of Gary. It was a place called the Small Farms. It was called that for a reason because...
I Was All Over That Mill
"I got to watch that. This was big for me. It was something that I just dearly loved..."
Produced by Rich Elliott. Transcript for I Was All Over That Mill Bethlehem Steel had...
Green Light to Go Out of Town
"Did you want to take a stand… or was it just an inevitability, 'Man, we can’t stay here any longer?'" https://youtu.be/JDdfi8MzO7Q Transcript for Green Light to Go Out of Town It didn’t take a lot of, “Let’s sit down and...