Posts Tagged ‘identity’

Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

The Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series welcomes Manufacturing and Technology News editor Richard McCormack to campus Thursday. There is a public lecture in the evening from 7:30-9:00 p.m. entitled “Working-Class Communities and the Future of Manufacturing.” The lecture will be...
January 27th, 2010 | Events | Read More

Steeltown USA up to 7000 copies with new printing

Youngstown State University has the privilege of housing the first academic program in the country to focus on issues of work and class–critical issues for our Valley in particular. The Center for Working-Class Studies was founded and is directed by John Russo and Sherry Linkon. I’m personally...
December 9th, 2009 | Events | Read More

Youngstown’s burning … again

We were carving pumpkins just east of downtown last weekend in a converted warehouse space. After buying the warehouse, the owner carried out carts and carts of dirt, over time converting the thousands of square feet into live-work artist space. In the process, the walls were decorated with found objects...
October 31st, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

What the CVS could have been

I wrote a post on my Vindy blog about the new Fifth-Avenue CVS next to Stambaugh Auditorium and what it suggests about our desperation for development. I wrote “The store should front directly on Fifth Avenue and the West Bound Service Road, ensuring the parking is visually obscured behind it and...
August 7th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Lordstown focus in Detroit News

An in-depth video feature awaits you over at DetNews.com, talking about Lordstown hanging in there as the last manufacturing powerhouse in the area. Tim Sokol is quoted as saying “if Lordstown closes, we’re done for; you’ll see a ghost town from one end of the Mahoning Valley to the...
August 3rd, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

History lessons at the Steel Museum

Sunday’s Vindicator included a great article on kids experiencing history at the Steel Museum. The museum does a great job of explaining how steel is made, showing scale-model views of different processes involved in its production, and bringing to life the people and places that made steel in...
January 26th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More