Word: flints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south side of Flint, Mich., is a patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...
Soon, however, ordinary Fundamentalism was left far behind. Gill began walking the streets of Flint each morning, pausing in front of every house to pray for a religious revival. Thousands of times he prayed, "My God, why is there no prophet in this land?" Eventually the answer came: Gill himself was the prophet of the biblical "latter rain"* who would prepare the way for Christ's Second Coming. Gill got his first direct messages from God in February 1971, when "I felt his words moving through my mind." To keep them moving, Gill fasted for days at a time...
Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...
Chase first put together his calendar 18 years ago while working as a librarian at the Flint Journal. The idea was inspired by the many calls he received from reporters "looking for brighteners." Chase began hunting for mention of new events in newspaper clippings and verifying traditional ones by getting in touch with trade associations and other sponsoring groups. He then used his own small publishing concern, Apple Tree Press, to turn out the Calendar...
...band of Indians had taken over a 612-acre former girls' camp, now a forest preserve in New York's Adirondack State Park. They claimed the camp land and, thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose's white settlers, the Indians have refused to budge. The squat-in is fast approaching a legal crunch, and TIME Cor respondent Don Sider recently visited the Indian camp...