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“Stone Mad,” Rust Belt Ghosts and A Shameless Plug! (opens the original)
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Today, I’d like to offer up a shameless (but definitely solid and heartfelt) plug on an author I do believe you’ll all find worth hunting down and reading if you’re in the market for new material to sink your literary teeth into. If (like me) you love old buildings, buried histories, unsolved mysteries, and the uneasy feeling that the past isn’t quite as dead as we like to pretend, you really ought to know the work of D.M. Pulley.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substac
The Black Keys: Perfecting the Rust Belt Sound (opens the original)
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There is a particular set of sounds that the Rust Belt makes. It's a cacophonic symphony of sorts. If you put your ear to the air, you hear it underneath an gritty and poorly lit interstate overpass when a semi crosses overhead. You hear it when a slow freight train grinds through an old industrial neighborhood at two in the morning. You hear it inside an empty factory when something unseen and metallic bangs somewhere deep inside the building, over and over. There IS rhythm in that. There IS mu
The Rust Belt Through the Art of the Postcard (opens the original)
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There was a time when sending someone a photograph was not instantaneous. You could not pull a phone from your pocket, snap twenty pictures, choose the best one and send it across the country before the moment was even over. Instead, there were postcards; small pieces of printed cardboard that carried pictures, art, historic information blurbs, messages, postage stamps and a little bit of the world from one person to another.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.
A Rebirth at Richman Brothers: A Proposal for Cleveland, Ohio (opens the original)
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There are certain buildings that seem to have been designed specifically to make sane people ask insane questions. The Richman Brothers factory at East 55th Street and Luther Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio is one of them.You look at this beautifully built, enormous old red-brick leviathan; vacant, weathered, wounded and slowly being chewed apart by thirty-plus Cleveland winters. The sensible part of your brain says, “That thing is enormous. It has been abandoned forever. The roof leaks. There is prob
We Were Never Supposed to Become the Story. (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, Cleveland lost the old Friendship Baptist Church at East 55th Street and Central Avenue, a beautiful and deeply historical place of worship that began its life as a grand synagogue and later changed hands with two Baptist congregations over its long, long life. <source type="
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