Atlas Obscura recently published a piece I wrote about the old lock system still in use up and down the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio. The locks are operated by hand and require the skills of a lockmaster, who stays on site to help the estimated 7,000 annual boaters traverse the dams that make theContinue reading “The locks and canals of the mighty Muskingum”
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A Landfill is an Ecosystem unto Itself: a Treatise on the Organisms that call Landfills Home
Looming over Colerain Township is Mount Rumpke, the highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio. Visitors are taken by bus to the top, and from the summit, you can see the valley below, stretching to the reaches of the mountain’s domain. The skyline of nearby Cincinnati sits hazily in the distance. Far below, bulldozers and dumpContinue reading “A Landfill is an Ecosystem unto Itself: a Treatise on the Organisms that call Landfills Home”