A Legacy in Story
Akron Stories collects, preserves, and celebrates the stories of Akron’s rubber workers and their descendants. The stories have been organized into the following categories:
Akron Life • History • The Work • Products • People & Identity
Printing Machines
Cheryl Suttle Wagoner’s father, Reuben Festus Suttle, graduated from Green high-school in 1952 and started working for Goodyear in the print shop.
Deaf Workers
Thomas Kot is the grandson of Philip Alfred Heupel Sr., a 1918 graduate of Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., which at the time was the only college in the world for the deaf.
Still Segregated
Ophelia High’s parents moved to Akron from Middlefield, Georgia, and lived on a farm in East Akron.
The Dirty 30's
Joseph Heisser started working at Goodyear in 1973 and went through the rigorous apprenticeship program at Goodyear Hall.
