In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire. It wasn’t the only time – the river had caught on fire at least 13 times in 100 years. This wasn’t a case of a temporary oil spill sparking a fire, it was a case of a river so polluted that it would just CATCH ON…
Long before present-day Syracuse dominated the lake that bears their name, the Onondaga lived in this area. Onondaga means “hill people”, and there are certainly plenty of those in the region. If you look at a map of the area, you see that there’s another dominant feature in this region: water. Lake Ontario is just…