The Packard Presence in Columbus
Walking around Columbus, Ohio, the influence of Frank Packard's architecture is everywhere you look.
Introduction: “This City is Killing Me”
The introduction to a new book on "community trauma and toxic stress in urban America."
Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969
“It touched everybody all over the country who lived in public housing.” [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
The Art of Labor
A tour of Milwaukee's conflicted Grohmann Museum. From "The Milwaukee Anthology."
Motor Nation
"Sometimes when I am driving down the freeway...I think of the reasons I love Detroit."
When Did the Milwaukee River Become ‘Unswimmable’?
An excerpt from The Milwaukee Anthology.
Archie the Talking Snowman
I wasn’t having any of it. My mother brought my older sister and me to Chapel Hill Mall each year to visit with Archie the Talking Snowman. But I wasn’t fooled. Snowmen don’t talk, and I didn’t trust the disembodied voice that floated from above.