Mastering the Message
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Remembered After 100 Years (DNAinfo.com) Almost every semester I teach, at some point in the term I have reason to bring up the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland catching fire in the sixties. The reaction from my students is always the same: “What? How can a river catch fire?” When I explain to them how polluted the river was and call up some Google Images photos of the fire, though, they seem to understand. (As I teach in Michigan and nearly all my…