Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown

Safford, Sean. Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University Press, 2009. The title of Sean Safford’s Why your Garden Club Could not save Youngstown is not in jest.  This book truly is an attack on the Garden Club of Youngstown.  It is commonly believed that [...]

Steeltown U.S.A.

Linkon, Sherry Lee and John Russo. Steeltown U.S.A.: Work & Memory in Youngstown. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002. When I think of 2010, I think of Youngstown. Started in 2002, an idea (Youngstown 2010) developed as a plan for Youngstown as a city in its current size, as opposed to the 160,000+ Steeltown [...]