I was reminded that this post about a visit to the Wahkeena Nature Preserve in southeast Ohio, which sparked a brief reflection on native Americans, was published one year ago, so I just felt compelled to share. Much obliged if you could take a few minutes to give it a read.
Continue readingI spent a dozen years in southeastern Ohio, it’s where I studied and came of age. Some of my closest friends live in the area so this hits close to home.
In historic Marietta, Ohio, riverboats churn past shores once surveyed by George Washington. Trolleys bump along brick roads that pass between Victorian homes and 2,000-year-old Adena and Hopewell burial mounds. Its cemeteries hold more Revolutionary War officers than anywhere else in the nation.
And there is something else buried deep beneath Marietta: Hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive fracking wastewater.
For years, it has arrived in a caravan of tanker trucks that come night and day to deposit the toxic brine in injection wells that pump it thousands of feet underground, where it is supposed to stay forever.
But the brine is spurting to the surface, and locals fear it could soon contaminate the drinking water source for 32,000 people. “It would destroy the city,” said Susan Vessels, president of the Marietta City Council. “Once the damage is done, it cannot be undone.”
I needed a solid dose of nature after the three flights (and two delays) that brought me from Nice to Columbus, Ohio, just before midnight the night before, and after a quick search, was compelled to stop at the Wahkeena Nature Preserve for three reasons: it was easily accessible off of US Route 33 on… Continue reading
David Joyce is the Republican representative for Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. You know who Musk is.
I spotted this at a small plaza at the intersection of Bishop and Chardon Roads in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. It’s a solidly conservative area so I decided it would be an instructive exercise to watch its evolution over the following days.
Day 1 – stapled to a utility wall, facing west; day 2 – laying on the ground (as pictured), either torn or ripped from the pole; and day 3 – gone. Either thrown away or blown away.
This is a sculpture of track & field legend Harrison Dillard, the only man to win Olympic titles in the 100 meter dash and the 110m hurdles. And, one of my favorite athletes of all time. The life sized tribute, created by Ohio sculptor David Deming, has pride of place in a pleasantly shaded spot… Continue reading
More specifically, from the Cleveland Metroparks North Chagrin Reservation in Mayfield Village and Willoughby Hills, Ohio, about 18 miles east of downtown Cleveland.
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