Apr 14
7 min read
A Great City on a Cold Lake:
A Boomer’s Long-Distance Love Affair with His Hometown
I grew up on the outskirts of a once great American city, its population approaching one million people, 7th largest in the nation when I was born in 1957, and today, under 400,000, outside the top 50. In the suburb of Beachwood, I formed an instinctive love for the downtrodden, the maligned, the underdog. The suburb was…
