2. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/29/david-starkey-historian
King Coal and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/business/energy-environment/the-people-v-the-coal-baron.html
3. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dark-lord-of-coal-country-20101129?page=6
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/business/energy-environment/the-people-v-the-coal-baron.html
5. Blankenship was found guilty in 2015 of conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards and in 2016 was sentenced to a year in prison, and assessed a $250,000 fine.
6. http://bloodonthemountain.com/
7. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dark-lord-of-coal-country-20101129?page=6
Seed or Weed?
1. The 606 trail opened in June 2015 to wide acclaim; a few months later, the land where the garden grew was sold to a developer. In the summer of 2017, the last of a set of five luxury townhomes was under construction on the site.
That Better Place; or, the Problem with Mobility
1. Thomas Bier, senior fellow at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, has written numerous articles about these patterns in the Cleveland area: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/08/ohio_policies_encouraging_the.html
3. http://beltmag.com/the-legacy-of-redlining-in-rust-belt-cities
4. http://www.cleveland.com/chagrin-falls/index.ssf/2015/09/chagrin_valley_home_values_are.html
About the Author
Anne Trubek is the founder and director of Belt Publishing. She is the author of The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting and A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses, and the co-editor of Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
INTRODUCTION: WHY THE RUST BELT MATTERS (AND WHAT IT IS)
Anne Trubek
GROWING UP
A GIRL’S YOUNGSTOWN
Jacqueline Marino
THE KIDNAPPED CHILDREN OF DETROIT
Marsha Music
BUSING, A WHITE GIRL’S TALE
Amanda Shaffer
NORTH PARK, WITH AND WITHOUT HATE
Jeff Z. Klein
MOUNDSVILLE
David Faulk
LOVE AND SURVIVAL: A FLINT ROMANCE
Layla Meillier
DAY TO DAY IN THE RUST BELT
A MIDDLE-AGED STUDENT’S GUIDE TO SOCIAL WORK
Dave Newman
FRESH TO DEATH
Eric Woodyard
RUST BELT HEROIN CHIC
Ben Gwin
WILL BLACKS RISE OR BE FORGOTTEN IN THE NEW BUFFALO?
Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
CAN DETROIT SAVE WHITE PEOPLE?
Aaron Foley
CLEVELAND’S LITTLE IRAQ
Huda Al-Marashi
GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEARTLAND
A NIGHT AT THE GOLDEN LION LOUNGE
John Lloyd Clayton
FAMILY BONES
Ryan Schnurr
THE FAUXTOPIAS OF DETROIT’S SUBURBS
James D. Griffioen
PRETTY THINGS TO HANG ON THE WALL
Eric Anderson
KING COAL AND THE WEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM
Carolyne Whelan
SEED OR WEED? ON THE EVOLUTION OF CHICAGO’S BLOOMINGDALE TRAIL
Martha Bayne
THIS IS A PLACE
Kathryn M. Flinn
THAT BETTER PLACE; OR, THE PROBLEM WITH MOBILITY
G. M. Donley
LEAVING AND STAYING
LOSING LAKEWOOD
Sally Errico
NOTES FROM THE EXPATRIATE UNDERGROUND
Margaret Sullivan
CONFESSIONS OF A RUST BELT ORPHAN; OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE AKRON
Jason Segedy
BATHTIME
Connor Coyne
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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