#if i'm really lucky i'll relocate here for a job 🙏🏻

[clove-pinks]

I'm rapidly catching up on the past 200 years of the Fort Meigs area. Even more so than Captain Marryat in his 1830s travelogue A Diary In America, I'm surprised at how much things have changed since 1814.

In scenario A (year 1810), you can see the corduroy road over the swampy lowland, soon to be transporting men in cute Napoleonic-style military uniforms and supplies to Fort Meigs. The world is in balance, as represented by the ghost sharks in Lake Erie.

In scenario B (year 2010), the wetlands have been drained and replaced with corn, causing a great evil to manifest in the area. Excessive corn has driven away the ghost sharks and replaced them with green slime. And there's a Toledo (not the one in Spain).

In scenario C (year 2050), successful ecological restoration of the landscape has placed a barrier of wetlands between the corn and bodies of water and curbs the malign influence of Toledo. Ghost sharks have returned to Lake Erie, and the world is in greater harmony (as shown by the lack of green slime).

(It's a real academic journal article, btw.)