The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile twisting and turning journey from its headwaters is an exhaustive stream, abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, cleveland and akron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today, nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply, and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph or the cuyahoga . Host joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling. He is a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland let me be
are going through in this country. a lot of people who have seen their towns disintegrate and have these their jobs go away. those are not to be dismissed because they supported a candidate who you may not like. so how do you balance those two things? first, i should say, i grew up in a town like that. i write about that in the book. i do not come from privileged family, my parents were depression-era high school dropouts. i grew up among factories that by the time i was a child were empty and rotting. i played in abandoned with abandoned equipment and empty factors and coal yards and railroad trestles. i write about that this morning in usa today, there are two things about that. a lot of that happened before people were willing to admit that happened.
have been if this crime hadn t have happened. fears of satanic cults reached their peak last week. names were discovered on railroad trestles on what appear to be satanic symbols. people from school say he was a devil worshipper and he worshipped the devil and he is in a cult. so many unanswered questions. all from a senseless act. in the neighborhood, rumors begin. i ve heard things before about cults and i really didn t believe it. some of the kids in the neighborhood i talked to say they ve had, found some animals back there when they play back there, it looks like they ve been cut up. it sure looks rough. when it is boarded up, man, the yard is boarded up. it doesn t look good. at some time all three suspects have lived in the lakeshore trailer park. residents here claim to have seen strange ritualistic meetings at the park prior to