Carolyn V. Platt recently retired as professor of English at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. She is author of Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals (Kent State University Press, 1998) and Birds of the Lake Erie Region (Kent State University Press, 2001). As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's 14th District, John F. Seiberling was part of a bipartisan congressional effort to create a national park in the Cuyahoga Valley