Book Launched: Fight to Stop 1963 Freeway Plans

Nearby students spent four months learning about a piece of local history from the people who made it.

Teenagers from The Intergenerational School in Cleveland interviewed seniors from the Judson retirement community who helped halt an east side freeway project that would have destroyed the parks around Shaker Lakes and dozens of historic homes.

The proposed Interstate 290 would have run east to west just north of Shaker Boulevard through Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights and Beachwood to Interstate 271.

Dave Harris compiled these conversations and other information including photographs and student drawings in his new book, The Legacy of Clark Freeway Fighters, to tell the story of the famous battle.