On April 10, 2026, the class “A World Divided? Space, Place, and Regions in World Affairs”  (GEOG/INTSTDS 3650) went on a field trip through the former coal mining region of Eastern Ohio. The class visited The Wilds, which is established on a former strip mine, the Big Muskie dragline bucket, at one point the largest in the world, and the historic town of Shawnee, once at the epicenter of Ohio’s turn-of-the-20th-century mining boom.

All photos credited to Eric Mak.