Get an eyeful of Gary

I had the opportunity to take Canadian journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk to Northwest Indiana last week.

The region is kinda like a slow car wreck you cannot take your eye off of---beautiful beaches and dunes that look like Cape Cod, surrounded by industrial properties of such incredible scale one cannot help but be agog. I am amazed and a little scared every time I cross the border...

Andrew was speaking at the Aquatorium, an old bath house on the beach near the Miller section of Gary. It is either a part of the national lakeshore or Gary Park District, and therefore part of a stretch of the lake that does not have any industry on it. But it is omnipresent in the area---so looking west US Steel looms.

And to the east, is the Acelor Metal mill.

I blogged a bit on the road trip...the fuel source...and concerns about its expansion...on Switchboard.