Abstract
Elaine Marsh of the Friends of the Crooked River talks about growing up in Cleveland and moving to Independence as a teenager in 1959. She recalls canoeing on the Cuyahoga River, camping with her family, sleeping in deserted areas of the Cuyahoga Valley on the hottest summer nights, hiking in the area at a time when its limited access afforded privacy. She became active in the Sierra Club as a young adult. Marsh describes the beauty and mystery of the night sky as viewed from Virginia Kendall. She relates her early 1980s work in Friends of Crooked River to clean up pollution, including pulling out 113 abandoned cars from the river, planning the first River Day, initiating the first multi-experiential annual event at Boston Mills Crossing, and persuading Goodyear to allow the group to ride in the Goodyear Blimp to undertake an aerial survey in the early 1990s.
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Interviewee
Marsh, Elaine (interviewee)
Interviewer
Culley, Joe (interviewer)
Project
Rivers Roads and Rails 2008
Date
6-19-2008
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
62 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Elaine Marsh Interview, 2008" (2008). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 517061.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/354
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