Crooked River Valley Chocolate-brown, oily, bubbling with subsurface gases, it oozes rather than flows. “Anyone who falls into the Cuyahoga does not drown,” Cleveland’s citizens joke grimly. “He decays.” —Time Magazine The great question of the ’70s is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to […]
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The Great River “The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only excepted.” –Thomas Jefferson We learned the Buckeye State‘s official name came from the gargantuan waterway that forms its southern border: the Ohio River. Ohi:yo’ is a Seneca word that means
The Liquid Rainbow The Andes dominate the western portion of South America, forming a continent-long spine of gnarly mountains. In Colombia, near the northern reaches of the Andes, another range sits just 25 miles to the east. The Serranía de la Macarena run for 75 miles north-to-south and stretch just 20 miles in width. The tallest
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