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Miles Wolf Narrative by Linda Vaccariello PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERStwin LIGHTs PUB LI S H E R s | ROC K port , PROPERTYMASSachUSETTS OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHE PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Copyright © 2017 by Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may PROPERTYbe reproduced in any form without writtenOF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS permission of the copyright owners. 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Then you’d understand PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS how Mother Nature shaped this place: green hillsides that frame the city; inclines so steep that no builder has tackled them; natural features that form subtle boundar- ies in this neighborhood-proud community. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINA sportsLIGHTS fan would recommend PUBLISHERS heading to the river- front early on game day. Maybe take the kids for a ride on Carol Ann’s Carousel at Smale Riverfront Park or grab a burger at The Banks, then, before you head into PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS the game (Great American Ball Park when the Cincin- nati Reds are in town, Paul Brown Stadium during the Bengals’ season) drink in a long, long look at the Ohio River, the city’s priceless liquid asset. An architect might tell you to walk the streets to get PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINa picture LIGHTS of what Cincinnati PUBLISHERS is all about. 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Sing the City Sculpture Everyone who lives in Cincinnati has a favorite way The freestanding aluminum artwork is of regarding it—a scene or view or iconic moment that PROPERTYa testament to Cincinnatian’s creativ- OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWINembodies LIGHTS this place we call PUBLISHERS home. From riverboats to ity, as well as their devotion. Asked to bridges to the skyline’s high-rise towers, J. Miles Wolf convey their feelings for their city in has captured the Queen City in Cincinnati, Ohio: A a word or phrase, citizens submitted 1,000 expressions of love. This sculp- Photographic Portrait. Enjoy Cincinnati as he sees it. ture is just one of 54 public art installa- Perhaps your favorite view is here, too. PROPERTYtions inspired by the 2015 project. 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Roebling A pair of “golden arches” give this span Only nostalgic tourists travel by PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS SPROPERTYuspension Bridge between Cincinnati OF its nickname—the TWIN Big MacLIGHTS Bridge. paddlewheel PUBLISHERS today. But river com- and Covington, Kentucky, was begun Built in the 1970s, it carries Interstate merce remains an important part of the before the Civil War, but wartime 471 traffic from Cincinnati to Newport, local economy. In 2016 the 226-mile- shortages delayed its completion until Kentucky. The bridge is named for long region designated as the Ports of 1866. After it opened, Roebling, a civil Kentuckian Daniel Carter Beard—artist, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky was engineer, began work on what would outdoorsman, and one of the founders ranked the busiest inland port district PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS be his final, and most famous, project— of the Boy Scouts of America. in the nation by the US Army Corps of the Brooklyn Bridge. Engineers. 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