Thank you for sharing this! I have lived just about everywhere in the rustbelt and upper midwest but for Ohio and had just always heard the jokes without actually doing my own investigation. Detroit is pretty similar in terms of having a combined sewer overflow facility and absolutely no usable beach.
If you ever make it through Cleveland, you can take a fun little tour of US radicalism if you make the 45-minute drive down to Akron. In Akron you can visit the John Brown home and museum, JB worked a sheep ranch with his sons in Akron for quite a long time, and from there you can visit the spot where Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech and also the site of the first national convention of the Students for a Democratic Society. Pop on over 30 minutes to Kent and visit the May 4th memorial.
Thank you for sharing this! I have lived just about everywhere in the rustbelt and upper midwest but for Ohio and had just always heard the jokes without actually doing my own investigation. Detroit is pretty similar in terms of having a combined sewer overflow facility and absolutely no usable beach.
If you ever make it through Cleveland, you can take a fun little tour of US radicalism if you make the 45-minute drive down to Akron. In Akron you can visit the John Brown home and museum, JB worked a sheep ranch with his sons in Akron for quite a long time, and from there you can visit the spot where Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech and also the site of the first national convention of the Students for a Democratic Society. Pop on over 30 minutes to Kent and visit the May 4th memorial.
I've been meaning to go to the remains of John Brown's Tannery for a while