The Rust Belt Refugees
Stories of Rust Belt refugees and what they've gained and lost in joining the Michigan/Ohio diasporas.
Midwest Lit: the new nostalgia
Midwestern novels used to bring some news from the territory -- today midwest lit is a nostalgic thing.
The politics of local fish: why your walleye entree was shipped in from Canada
Lake Erie fishing -- commercial, sport, and charter boats -- and the politics of the catch.
Remediating the Past and Writing the Future in Flint
Most auto jobs in Flint are gone, but the city is still saddled with unhappy souvenirs of an industrial past. What comes next for the Vehicle City?
The Lost Movie Palaces of Youngstown
The rise and fall (and slight return) of a Rust Belt city's historic movie theatres.
Rust Belt Recovery: The Story of Addiction and Rehab in Cleveland
The intertwined stories of substance abuse and sobriety in the Rust Belt.
Belt’s Instant Rust Belt Film Festival
Imagine we reopened the great movie palaces of the Rust Belt for a day. What movies would we show?
The Surprising Past and Bright Future of Singing Societies
The surprising past and bright future of choral music and men's singing groups in the Rust Belt.
The Grapes of Hough
Meet Mansfield Frazier, the architect of a vineyard and underground greenhouse in an unlikely corner of Cleveland.
Train Dreams, Part 3
The final installment in our history of the Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers, their billion-dollar empire, and sudden demise.
A Sense of What a City Was: A History of Rust Belt Alt-Weeklies
The fast times and hard lives of alt-weekly newspapers in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.
The Detroit Anthology: A City Made of Many Voices
Detroit is a city of stories. But most of the stories written about Detroit today are by outsiders, for outsiders. Even local writers often pen stories meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Our Detroit anthology is different.