N.Y. Times acknowledges James River’s revival
The New York Times took the time to acknowledge that the James River is awesome. In fact, the writer chose to use a UR student that floated a feather UFO down the James a Richmond artist as highlights for the river’s health. From the NYT article: Every urban river is a political canvas. What was, in hard industrial eras […]
The New York Times took the time to acknowledge that the James River is awesome. In fact, the writer chose to use a UR student that floated a feather UFO down the James a Richmond artist as highlights for the river’s health.
Every urban river is a political canvas. What was, in hard industrial eras past, melds to what is and what might yet be.
Ten years ago, bathers in the James River, which wends through this old Southern city, wore ear and nose plugs to stave off infections from sewage runoff. Now, the river is stalked by blue herons and shad — symbols as potent as the belching riverbank ironworks and factories of the unfiltered, blue-collar past.
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