Love Canal: The Poison Under the Playground

<p>An American suburb — homes, a school, a playground — built directly on top of twenty-one thousand tonnes of buried chemical waste. When the rain brought it back up, the children were already sick. And in the deed of sale, the company had written, in plain language, that people might be killed.</p><p>August Mercer tells the story of the housewife who mapped the illnesses house by house and would not be silenced. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#truehistory #truestories #history </em></p>