<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Twitter: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/HiddnHistoryPod">Link</a> </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Patreon: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/hiddenhistorypod">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Shirts and more:</strong> <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/38859851">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Sources and Further Reading</strong></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Making Love Canal: <a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/making-love-canal">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Love Canal &amp; Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: <a href="https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=13-P13-00050&amp;segmentID=7">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">ABC News Close-Up: The Killing Ground (1979): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4udLhOdPro&amp;ab_channel=YorkVid">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Residents say Love Canal chemicals continue to make them sick: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GRkGYaBmM&amp;ab_channel=PBSNewsHour">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A history of the Love Canal disaster, 1893 to 1998: <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/history/a-history-of-the-love-canal-disaster-1893-to-1998/article_5df93af9-e5fe-5ae4-be74-efed7dbf43ed.html">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">There’s No Love Lost for Entrepreneur Who Envisioned Model City: <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-16-mn-35999-story.html">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The International Boundary Water Treaty: <a href="https://www.niagarafallsinfo.com/niagara-falls-history/niagara-falls-municipal-history/boundary-waters-treaty/the-international-boundary-water-treaty/">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb: <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/investigations/love_canal/lctimbmb.htm">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Love Canal: A Special Report to the Governor &amp; Legislature: April 1981: <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/investigations/love_canal/lcreport.htm">Link</a></p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Lawsuits: Love Canal still oozes 35 years later: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/11/02/suits-claim-love-canal-still-oozing-35-years-later/3384259/">Link</a></p>