Quote Originally Posted by p69rrh51 View Post
Kresge must have been out of his mind to give up this home to Sunday.
The Kresge family were Methodists and strong prohibitionists, so it's no wonder they were attracted to Billy Sunday.

Sebastian Kresge donated land and money for the construction of Metropolitan Methodist on Woodward. When my mother went there as a kid the Kresges were very prominent members of the congregation. Later I knew a Kresge heir who gave most of his fortune and real estate to the Methodist church, Methodist-affiliated Albion College, and anti-alcohol organizations, and lived in his minister's basement outside of Pontiac when he wasn't at the family estate up north. K-Mart would not sell alcoholic beverages for many years, and it was only over the objection of the remaining family members on the board that they began to do so.