PERSONAL HISTORY
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Featured Stories
ESSAY
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
LABOR NOTES
The Young Patriots and the Fight for the Working Class in Uptown
In the 1960s, the organization partnered with the Black Panthers and Young Lords, providing a model for multiracial coalition-building in Chicago.
POETRY
Opèksipu Catches Sun Before it Flows Beneath the Washington Street Bridge
"home is built upon the scaffolding/of a hundred thousand stories..."
BIG PICTURE
Are Volunteer Fire Departments Still Viable?
Faced with a lack of money and volunteers, some western Pennsylvania departments are turning to consolidation.
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More Stories
The Art of Labor
A tour of Milwaukee's conflicted Grohmann Museum. (From "The Milwaukee Anthology.")
What Indiana Dunes National Park and the Border Wall Have in Common
Among other things, they offer the opportunity to envision a healthy future for everyone.
Today I Laid a Crayfish at Your Grave
"I kneeled at the stump where we laid the Ford agate,/Made up spells and secrets..."
Tapping into Tradition
In the Ohio Valley, more farmers are harvesting maple syrup, a practice that dates to before the arrival of Europeans.
Summers at White Birch Lodge
Reflections on three generations of family and community in Michigan.
The Last Days of Rezkoville’s Purgatory
In Chicago, a long-empty swath of land south of the Loop is the latest site of a planned mega-development.
The Undemocratic Making of Indianapolis
How Unigov, a 1970s-era legislative project, helped create modern-day Indy and its suburbs.
About Leaving (Milwaukee)
An original poem from "The Milwaukee Anthology."
Is Michigan’s UP Winter Culture Melting?
In the Upper Peninsula, climate change is threatening the UP200, an Iditarod qualifier race.
The Marrow of Tradition: An Introduction
From the introduction to a new edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition," published by Belt Publishing.
Detroit’s Eastern Market
Scenes from the city’s historic food and culture hub.
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From the Archives
The Future of the Great Lakes
In an era of climate change and corporate extraction, what will it take to manage the Great Lakes?
Calls for Submissions
Call for Submissions: Kansas City Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Kansas City, MO, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Louisville Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Louisville, KY, to be published in 2020 by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: LGBTQ Anthology
Announcing an anthology of LGBTQ stories from the Midwest and Appalachia, to be published in Fall 2020 by Belt Publishing.
