In-person at the Lloyd Library and Museum
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
In the 1960s, Ohioans grew increasingly concerned about their polluted environment. Industrial rivers and harbors drew special attention, particularly as dredges hoisted polluted silt from beneath murky waters and dumped it into cleaner waters. In response to public pressure, new laws limited open water dumping, permanently reshaping the Great Lakes. This is the story of how the lowly dredge has remade and continues to remake our world.
David Stradling is the Zane L. Miller Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored several books, including The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State (2010), Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (2007), Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (1999), and, with Richard Stradling, Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (2015).
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