Euclid Ave mural—on Black women lifting up one another, because as Morrison said, “the function of freedom is to free someone else.”
Toni Morrison – Cleveland, Ohio
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Toni Morrison – Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Driving along the Bay, trying to experience the place concretely, seeing the links between past and present, proximate and distant.
Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio
Toni Morrison’s childhood home—Black American resilience amidst the shared, cruel landscapes of white supremacy in Lorain, OH.
Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio
Lakeview Park—exploring the traumas experienced by young Black girls in The Bluest Eye and reclaiming the park as a space for healing.
Sherwood Anderson – Elyria, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson & The Old Topliff and Ely Plant—on literary myths, Roof-Fix, and an escape along the railroad tracks in Elyria, OH.
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt – North Bend, Ohio
Though Piatt’s writing seems “sweet and peaceful,” it “proves to be like ‘the depths of a dark river,’ ‘shadowy and terrible.’”
Helen Hooven Santmyer – Xenia, Ohio
Greene County Courthouse — Jacob Bruggeman on civic pride and the settler colonial legacy of Helen Hooven Santmyer’s Xenia, Ohio.