Scouring the Land for Volunteer Writers, From Every GLUE City!

In last Thursday’s GLUEsletter, we announced that our new website will contain a feature for which we need you (yes, YOU) to produce some content.  GLUE is looking for volunteer writers from each of our 20+ cities to help us tell the insider’s story of Flint, Cleveland, Fort Wayne, and beyond.  Our in-design new website will contain City Portals–travel guides for the Rust Belt enthusiasts and civically engaged.  You can write about what trends you believe are changing Milwaukee; great green space and other city assets in Columbus; or simply give us a tour of your Pittsburgh neighborhood.  Here’s a teaser from Anthony Armstrong’s reflections on Buffalo:

Across our city, Buffalo’s majestic legacy is on display side-by-side with its steady decline.  However, the place that Frederick Law Olmstead deemed “the best planned city… in the United States, if not the world” still has its good bones–which are not just its physical infrastructure and building stock, but its people, culture, and history as well.

Compact and flat, Buffalo’s great to see on a bike, but however you get around, you need to experience:

Allentown: About a five-minute walk from downtown, this was Buffalo’s first suburban neighborhood and then its first and largest historic district.  Long a bastion for artists, stately Victorians and a bohemian commercial strip fill in this economically and racially diverse neighborhood…

If you’d like to volunteer to tell one piece of your city’s story, email sarah@gluespace.org.