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I’m a Gen X doctor in the Rust Belt who cut back on medicine to compose our region’s story—our way.

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After years of listening to the coasts tell us what to think about ourselves, I couldn't take it anymore.

So I took matters into my own hands. This is the real Rust Belt.

I must have a problem. Just ask my wife—she’ll offer more than one. But this obsession with smoke stacks, abandoned

The great American manufacturing myth became known to me through a series of facts—I prefer to call it reality. The

Grime and hardship, coupled with a few musical instruments, make for great works of art. We call them Rust Belt

I must have a problem. Just ask my wife—she’ll offer more than one. But this obsession with smoke stacks, abandoned

The great American manufacturing myth became known to me through a series of facts—I prefer to call it reality. The

Grime and hardship, coupled with a few musical instruments, make for great works of art. We call them Rust Belt