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Are ‘Free Range Kids’ Really A Good Idea? Insights from The Cleveland Play Census
The results of a “play census” of Cleveland children taken on June 23, 1913, disturbed Harvard education professor George E. Johnson.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, August 9-16, 2015, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine.
Belt Bets: Pittsburgh, August 14-20
A curated list of things to do in Pittsburgh, including exhibitions, concerts, talks, films, and other goings-on the week of 08/14/15-08/20/15.
Belt Bets: Cleveland, August 14-20
A curated list of things to do in Cleveland, including exhibitions, concerts, talks, films, and other goings-on the week of 08/14/15-08/20/15.
Video: Mucca Pazza’s “The Sit Down Waltz”
Belt is proud to host the world premiere of the video for Chicago marching band/mobile orchestra Mucca Pazza's "The Sit Down Waltz."
Belt Bets: Chicago, August 14-20
A curated list of things to do in Chicago, including exhibitions, concerts, talks, films, and other goings-on the week of 08/14/15-08/20/15.
The Housing Post-Recession Collection
Belt launched in August 2013, long after the housing meltdown. The foreclosure crisis hit the [...]
Reflections On A Cleveland Debate
Prior to the start of last Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, there was a part of me that hoped someone would get hit with a folding chair.
Family Bones
My great-grandfather was nearly 60 years old when he dug a basement in his backyard and built part of a house on top of it.
The Nature Is Weird Collection
We have been gathering some of our favorite pieces from our first 2 years into themed collections. When we started Belt in August 2013, we never thought nature would play such a large role.
In Search of the Midwestern “We”: A Roundtable With Poets David Baker and Jill Bialosky
You may already know the Dawn Powell line “All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.” If you’re like me, you might both smile and wince as you read it.

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