Mining 101. When harvesting from the earth solid fuel like coal, surface mining is preferred to subsurface, for both cost and safety reasons. Surface mining falls into two types; open pit, and strip mining. Open pit is used when the target fuel, mineral, or ore spreads over a wide area …
Those of us who are lucky see a few every summer; the ruby-throat, the rufous, the Allen’s or the Anna’s. More often than not, you only hear them as they go buzzing by with a drone reminiscent of an industrial-sized bee. Some people create gardens just to attract them, planting …
Faith, hard work, sweat and blood built the railways; the railways connected the length and breadth of the country – east to west, north to south. Generations of young Americans have been inspired by the railways, inspired to travel, to dream, to put talents and time to good use. But …
What is it about ziplining? The speed? The height? The feeling of utter freedom as you, a creature subject to gravity’s laws, fly through the air? Or is it the sense of danger – ‘Will I fall?’ ‘What if the line snaps?’ ‘What if the safety straps or buckles give way?’ …
Picture it – it’s the early 1800s. The United States is less than fifty years old, her population about five million; there are 16 states (17 after 1803, when Ohio achieves statehood), and most people live within fifty miles of the Atlantic Ocean. The south is developing agriculture, the north …
Hold it in your hand – it doesn’t look like much. A rough-edged, roundish rock that isn’t very pretty to look at. But inside – oh, inside – all the world sparkles in the colored facets – blue, pink, purple, white, gray. Crystal Cave near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, is a life-size …
Appearing on the National Register of Historic Places, this Y-shaped bridge has spanned the Licking and Muskingum Rivers in Ohio since 1814. The first bridge (wooden trestle and stone piers) across the two spans was a toll bridge, with the toll house on the center pier – foot traffic 3 …
It’s tradition – a present earnestly desired. It’s absurd – a tacky lamp won as an award which becomes a point of contention and embarrassment. It’s hauntingly familiar – have you ever been Triple-dog Dared? It’s an icon of childhood: It’s A Christmas Story. And Ralphie’s house in Cleveland, Ohio, has …
