title: Cleveland Heights:  The Making Of  An Urban Suburb   (OH)  (Making of America)
author:  Marian J. Morton 
description: In Cleveland Heights: The Making of an Urban Suburb, author, 0historian, and longtime resident Marian J. Morton has crafted an engaging local history that both educates and entertains. Combining informative narrative with striking vintage photographs, she leads readers on a fascinating journey into the distant and not-so-distant past and shares the unique story of this city's trials and triumphs, challenges and champions, and the everyday lives of the men and women who made Cleveland Heights home.
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  Chapter Two
  
  ~Sean~
  
  May 2012
  
  I am from the city of rock.
  
  A city built up from the gray chimney stacks of steel mills, Chevy and Ford
  factories, and middle class America. A city where blood, sweat, and tears are
  poured into a funnel the size of Mars to keep the economy going. Where
  laboring, hardworking men are a dime a dozen. A place where the streets can
  become your best friend…
  
  Or your worst enemy.
  
  And at night, the streets don’t welcome you.
  
  They destroy you.
  
  I live in the armpit of the U.S.—Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio to be exact. Been here
  since I was seven. I like Ohio. Even though I was born on The Emerald Isle,
  I’ll always consider Ohio to be my home. I’m not sure why. Maybe because I’ve
  been here longer. Or because for some reason, Ohio has a home-like feel to it.
  I still boast a faint Irish accent and that’s the only souvenier that I’ve
  taken with me from my homeland.
  
  Cleveland Rocks!
  
  Cleveland Rocks!
  
  
  Okay, okay.
  
  I get it.