Essays
One Day I’ll Be a Clevelander
I was born in northeast Ohio, on the awkward border between green and brown farmland and the gray highways crisscrossing Ohio’s suburbia. It wasn’t exactly Amish country, but buggies did clip-clop down the road every so often.
Intrigue of the Midwest’s Industrial Ruin
The intrigue of historical Midwest industry ... and the isolated beauty of Marktown in East Chicago, Indiana.
The Second Edition of The Cleveland Anthology
Next month we publish our second edition (and third print run) of Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology, with essays by Connie Schultz, Michael Ruhlman, David Giffels, and others. This excerpt is the book’s new introduction.
Summer Girl … and Other Duties as Assigned
Chicago’s Greyhound terminal in late Aug. 1966 certainly lacked cheer and charm, and perhaps safety. But to me, holding a one-way ticket back to Calumet County, WI, it was a suitable escape platform from my job as a “Summer Girl”
Adventures in Urban Angling on the Cleveland Lakefront
On a sunny summer afternoon, the City of Cleveland buzzes with a frenetic energy you can only observe from the waterfront, where the Cuyahoga meets the Great Lake.
Deli Men
I can't cut it in the deli life—the corned beef—anymore. I’m just not the deli Jew my dad was.
Clarity and Abundance in the Creeks of Lake County
Better parenting through salamanders, dragonflies and spiders.
A World of Iron and Steel: A Family History
A family history wrought in the steel mills of Southeast Chicago. An excerpt from the work of Christine Walley, author of "Exit Zero."
The Farmer and I: A Rookie’s Field Guide to Farm Speak
I wanted there to a user's guide to grain farming, but that's not how life works.
A Drinking Life
An excerpt from Daniel J. McGraw's memoir on Cleveland, drinking, and the death of his father.
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