Lonnie Miller cries as she watches a model train travel a track around the living room of her family’s home on East Clark Street in East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Union Progress)
Change — fiery, loud and abrupt — arrived on a frigid Friday evening one year ago. In the following days, people who’d never heard of East Palestine viewed their first images of the village. Here’s what they saw: colossal towers of smoke, roiling flames and blackened rail cars — the things that soon came to symbolize a place once known for its production of rubber and pottery and where Bob Hope earned his first paycheck as an entertainer.
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