endangered pools
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“Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin our descent into Cincinnati, make sure your seats and tray tables are in their full upright position, and fasten your seat belts. I breathed a sigh of relief at the flight attendant’s instruction. Almost there. Our flight from Richmond to Philly had begun in snow, ice, and wind, and…
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Next stop: Cincinnati! Not for a Reds game, although they had a homestand against the Tigers so the Queen City ran red with fans. But we weren’t there for baseball, although we’d thoroughly enjoyed The Great American Ballpark three years ago, when the home team won against the Pirates and my husband gobbled five hotdogs. …
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Toeing the water of my home pool in Williamsburg, Virginia, I grumbled that today’s swim would be hot as a nuclear reactor. Well, maybe not quite 10 times hotter than the sun, which according to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is what occurs in a fusion reactor. Still, the 94F water I was about to…
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Public domain imageSunlite Pool, the enormous blue gem of Cincinnati’s Coney Island amusement park, was built in 1925. An engineering marvel even today, this 3-million-gallon tank remains the world’s largest recirculating pool. But it won’t be for long if rapid community action doesn’t work. I’ve never been there, but I feel compelled to write this…
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DOE-Oakridge (1961). Overall View of Oak Ridge Pool DOE Photo by Ed Westcott Oak Ridge Tennessee July 1961. https://www.flickr.com/photos/doe-oakridge Accessed 10 January 2024. Public domain. In the summer of 2021, after more than a year of quarantine and masks and “safer at home,” we fled. We packed up Stickers, our trusty van, and hit the…
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