Flowers for East Liverpool, OH

They called it the Crockery City. For decades East Liverpool's kilns turned out more of America's dishware than anywhere else, and the Museum of Ceramics on Fifth Street still tells that story a block up from the Ohio River. The town wears its industrial past in its shape: a compact riverfront core along Broadway, residential streets that climb steeply up the hillsides, and the SR-7 strip running out past Calcutta and Glenmoor toward the exact spot where Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania touch. It is a place where a delivery address might be a downtown storefront, a house perched three terraces above the river, or a chapel out near the state line — and where East Liverpool City Hospital on Colonial Drive keeps a steady thread of get-well and new-baby flowers moving through the week.

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