Upriver
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A researcher traces the legacy of plastics. Photos by Ansel Adams.
from Summer 2021 Uprooted: Finding life in new soil June 2, 2021 [Petrochemicals] began as many American industries have begun, almost by chance, in scattered places, in many winding rivulets of enterprise before it became a river running imperatively to the sea. —Fortune, 1941 The Kanawha, 1936 “THESE ARE ROADS to take when you think of your country,” wrote the poet Muriel Rukeyser about a road trip she took to central Appalachia in 1936. It’s a refrain she repeats throughout T he Book of the Dead , a series of witness poems responding to the industrial tragedy at Hawk’s Nest. In the early 19
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