If you take a walk in Wendy Park on a nice spring day
And look around towards the salt mines and the city skyline and at Lake Erie...
You may just find bits and pieces of Cleveland's past, given up by the ground as the earth warms in the spring...
If you ever visit Cleveland...perhaps for a workshop? You'll want to find this lost gem.
Wendy Park in Cleveland is about 2 miles from my house on a plot of land at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River called Whiskey Island. The land is raised up a bit because the city of Cleveland filled the land with refuse in order to create a straighter, man-made mouth of the river in 1827. Originally, the land was inhabited by American Indians, then by a farmer who also had a whiskey distillery, and later inhabited by Irish-Americans who helped to dig the Ohio andErie Canal.
If you ever visit Cleveland...perhaps for a workshop? You'll want to find this lost gem.
Interesting! Will you be going there again soon?
ReplyDeleteyes. Kate went with me. Do you want to go w/me sometime?
Deletei love places like this. there's one from when i was little in western ny on the lake, and another i know on the st. lawrence. i have little "dump" on my property where my kids and i have found treasures.
ReplyDeleteOooh! Ever find any rusty bits? Just wondering...
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of an amazing collection I saw in London of the ongoing collection of items collected from the Thames....see this little blog entry.....http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/noted-mudlarking-on-the-thames/ .......'mudlarking' I believe it's called.....collecting bits along the riverbank.....perhaps there is a Cleveland Mudlarking Society!
ReplyDeleteSome of the paths across Hampstead Heath, London, yield tiny bits of pottery, presumably from the Victorian rubbish dump nearby. I can never resist looking for these when I'm out walking there - but what to do with my growing collection?
ReplyDeleteWe cannot resist the urge to collect. Ah, what to do?
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