David Griesmyer flicks his torch on and off and delicately bends a wire into the shape of a palm. Bright flames flash off the ends of bits of steel while he fills in its metallic fingers.
This hand will soon belong to the stainless steel woman, who sits cross-legged on his desk.
Lake Erie was declared dead in the 1960s. It was so overrun by pollutants that dead fish littered the shores and the adjoining Cuyahoga River caught fire.
Intel is coming to Licking County in Central Ohio, an area that housing advocates say already has a shortage of affordable housing. The new chip-making industry, and its new employees, is expected to exacerbate that problem.
A large swath of working-age Appalachians aren’t in the labor force.
For a long time, Jennifer Corcoran and her son, Matthew, stopped going out into their community.
Located 12 miles north of the Ohio River in the southeast part of the state sits Question Mark, Ohio.
It’s home to Ohio’s second largest commercial garbage dump, the original location of Mr. Freeze-E Ice Cream, and a stunning waterfall. It’s also fictional.
Indigenous people have lived in what we now call Ohio for more than fifteen thousand years.
Eltaf’s family home in Dayton feels warm. There’s a big scarlet red, Persian rug that takes up the entire living room, there’s pillows everywhere and it smells of tea — mahmood tea to be exact.
Eltaf’s 2-year-old cousin, Samay, runs around the room. His mom chases him around, trying to pick him up.
The family has made a home in Ohio after coming to America with nothing.
Albert Gibson had a top secret job.
For 37 and a half years, he worked at the Mound, a site near Dayton that developed components for atomic bombs.
It’s not clear the small plot of land on the north side of Youngstown is a community garden. At least not anymore.
Weeds stretch toward the sky, where there once was rows of bright beets and tall turnips. Without dedicated growers, Jubilee Gardens has fallen into disrepair. But on a Friday evening in July, a small group of people are planting.
