A severe thunderstorm tore through our city in the spring of 2022.
In our predominantly white suburban neighborhood, several trees were shattered by the vicious wind, including the Norway maple in our front yard. (more…)
A severe thunderstorm tore through our city in the spring of 2022.
In our predominantly white suburban neighborhood, several trees were shattered by the vicious wind, including the Norway maple in our front yard. (more…)
A hard rain is gonna fall. — Bob Dylan
Jesus Christ, they’ve done it. — Bob, Threads
In late September of 1984 I was in my home town preparing to go back to university, having graduated with a good enough Bachelor’s degree to continue to a Master’s. (more…)
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We are all East Palestinians now.
As always, it will take months and years and decades and possibly centuries to sift the hype from the facts about what happened in this remote little nearly all-white town in eastern Ohio that sits only 21 miles from the rotted-out deindustrialized city of Youngstown, Ohio and a mere 52 miles from the rotted-out deindustrialized city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (more…)