“The Coney Island of the West”
At its peak, Ohio’s Silver Lake Park was a six-hundred-acre amusement park with more than thirty attractions and tens of thousands of visitors per day.
How the Kent State Shooting Changed American Music
From 'the end of the Sixties' to the 'Akron sound.'
The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron
The stories of workers and their families reveal "unintended consequences" for life and health in the community.
Remembering the Kent State Shootings, Fifty Years Later
Survivor Chic Canfora reflects on life then and now.
Cadillac Hill
"Almost every girl I know has the same story about a car, about a boy. This is mine."
Call for Submissions: Reimagining Rust Belt Infrastructure
In search of features, essays, and commentary on the connections between infrastructure and issues of climate, environment, equity, and democracy in the region.
Akron’s Vietnam
How the war touched one Northeast Ohio neighborhood.
RIP, Unknown Skeletal Remains
Excerpted from The Akron Anthology available from Belt Publishing. By Jennifer Conn The dirt path to the Summit County potter’s field in Tallmadge, [...]
867-5309: A Love Song
In the summer of 1982, David Giffels heard a startlingly familiar series of numbers on the radio that momentarily redefined his Akron identity.