Swimming Changed
Personal memory by Ben White
1980 CE • Gary, IN, USA
I remember swimming with fish in Lake Michigan. I also remember when they started to die off. Swimming changed.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Ken Lund via Flickr, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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