The Story of Faygo
Instructor: Joe Grimm · Local History
Learn how Faygo pop came to be, how it grew to become a giant independent bottler and its tough choice between growing and staying. “The Faygo Book” is a story about the 120-year effervescent love affair between this company on the east side of Detroit and the city’s people. There will be photos from The Faygo Book, a pop quiz and maybe a singalong.
About the presenter: Faygo Book co-author Joe Grimm is a journalism professor at Michigan State University and a lifelong Michigander. He has also written “Coney Detroit,” “Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors” and he is founding editor of a series of about 25 cultural competence guides at MSU. He worked for 25 years as an editor at the Detroit Free Press.
