Today is a variation on our weekly "Slow River" where we share ground level video with natural sound from yesterday’s AMAZING Blazing Paddles Paddlefest on Cleveland’s hard-working, historic, and scenic Cuyahoga River. Many thanks to our tireless volunteers, sponsors, Cuyahoga River industrial stakeholders, partner organizations, kayak rental livery partners, and yes, you, our Blazing Paddles paddlers!
Read MoreAs fate would have it, our founder, Jim Ridge, will be on Ideastream Public Media/WCPN/The Sound of Ideas to talk with pro’s pro Rick Jackson about the July 24 Blazing Paddles Paddlefest at Rivergate Park/Cleveland Metroparks Merwin’s Wharf/Cleveland Rowing Foundation. But the convo will also touch upon Cleveland’s (and Cleveland’s waterfront) history! Jim will open the show from appx. 9:04 to 9:25 am. You can stream this morning’s interview here. Jim starts the show at the top of the hour.
Read MoreThis week’s Slow River episode is a short one. In September 2015 we had the pleasure of collaborating on an amazing project with visual storytellers Ben Harper and Christopher Cymbalak at Breakwall Media. The sunrise shimmer of the Cleveland skyline as the launch’s gentle wake made its way across the Cuyahoga’s old river channel was a thing of beauty.
Read MoreThis week’s Slow River goes back to a raw April day in Cleveland in 2018. We had noticed scholastic rowing teams navigating their way around a small bump on the surface of the water - a bump that wasn’t moving. River veterans surmised it was a tree that had been driven into the riverbed 28 feet below by a passing freighter. So the tree became a permanent obstacle (instead of floating down the river to the lake).
Read MoreHannah Ross Smith was kayaking on the Cuyahoga River near the Carter Rd. Bridge last night when she came across some exotic wildlife. No it wasn’t a Blue Heron, peregrine falcon, or a beaver. It was a rooster. A salmon faverolle rooster to be exact. One can easily imagine the rooster channeling Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime’s classic lyric “Well, how did I get here?!”.
Read MoreIt was the tweet that launched 4,100 replies and counting. We surmise on a late Friday afternoon heading into the Fourth of July weekend a young staffer was flipped the keys to the City of New York’s Twitter account and in a misguided attempt to throw literal shade at the City of Cleveland, they sparked a flurry of responses from proud Clevelanders and others.
Read MoreThis week’s fifth episode of Slow River captures American Steamship Co.'s American Courage navigating a river bend after passing under/through the Columbus Road Bridge spanning the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, OH.
Read MoreThis week’s Slow River is a journey up a glassy Cuyahoga River on a brilliant morning in Cleveland. In addition to the tour of bridges that any trip up the river provides, it’s a reminder of the scenic beauty of Cleveland’s hard-working river.
Read MoreCleveland’s Front Porch Lights wrapped a day of activities at Hart Crane Park and on the Cuyahoga River during Canalway Partners’ Cuyahoga River Rally. After a cloudy day interspersed with rain, figured the sun would finally pop out toward the end of the day…
Read MoreShare the River’s founder, Jim Ridge, announces the 3rd Annual Blazing Paddles will return to Cleveland’s comeback Cuyahoga River on Saturday, July 24, 2021! Registration opens at 6 p.m. tonight!
Read MoreOn a breezy Tuesday afternoon we caught this gent having a great time on his electric hydrofoil surfboard. A quick check of the web show these boards can run upwards of $12k. Fliteboard out of Australia (go figure) seems to be a market leader. What will be the next thing?
Read MoreSlow River: Scranton Flats is the second installment of a trial series called "Slow River". Every Sunday morning we'll share a real-time scene with natural audio. It's a riff on the Norwegian "Slow TV" Series popularized in the 2000s.
Read MorePaddlers looking to explore the final miles of the Cuyahoga River have been turning to Cleveland Metroparks' Merwin's Wharf dock that offers one of the few public "put-ins" and technically the only one located in the Federal Navigation Channel
Read MoreToday we're launching a trial series called "Slow River". Every Sunday morning we'll share a real-time scene with natural audio. It's a riff on the Norwegian "Slow TV" Series popularized in the 2000s. Think of it like a "CBS Sunday Morning" nature segment.
Read MoreWednesday’s “Cleveland’s Waterfront is Open for Business - Have Fun and Be Safe” press conference and mixer at Collision Bend Brewing Co. was a wonderful opportunity for maritime, law enforcement, recreation, and business stakeholders to share their respective thoughts on the positive impact Cleveland’s waterfront has on the regional economy.
Read MoreAfter two years of planning, and a year of uncertainty, the NFL Draft lands in Cleveland from Thursday April 28 through Saturday May 1. The national event is described by some as the biggest stage for Cleveland’s brand since the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Read MoreA significant connector in Cleveland’s Flats district, the Center Street Swing Bridge will close the historic bridge spanning the Cuyahoga River to vehicle and pedestrian traffic for the duration of the project, slated to begin In mid-late July 2021 and wrap in July 2022.
Read MoreOn a recent Saturday we caught the 630 foot long freighter Calumet making its way up a Cuyahoga River busy with recreational watercraft. It provided a great example of Cleveland’s evolving “theater of the waterfront’ and provided a few lessons on the river’s increasing popularity with recreational paddlers.
Read MoreFans of Cleveland’s bridges spanning the Cuyahoga River will be pleased to know the City of Cleveland plans a significant rehabilitation of the historic Center Street Swing Bridge,
Read MoreOn a balmy Monday afternoon in July we took a bike ride along the Scranton Flats Towpath Trail to see what the waterfront scene was looking like along the Cuyahoga River.
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