Middle West US
Exploring Midwest History and Culture
Resistance and Resilience in Downriver Detroit
August 12, 2026
Lisa M. Fine
During a cold late-winter day in Michigan, industrial waste and pollution released into the Detroit River by an unknown corporation killed tens of thousands of waterfowl, mostly ducks. Outraged by such corporate irresponsibility and government’s inability to prevent these unfortunate events and punish the polluters, an environmental group decided to act. In a well-staged media event, the group collected over a thousand dead ducks and deposited them on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing…Read More
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“Here on the prairies of Illinois and the Middle West we can see a long way in many directions…Here there are no barriers, no defenses, to ideas and aspirations. We want none; we want no shackles on the mind or the spirit, no rigid patterns of thought, no iron conformity.”
-Adlai Stevenson