The founding editors and staff reside in Cincinnati, also known as the “Queen City,” a moniker that has stuck since the early 1820s when the city experienced incredible growth. We pair this name with the image in the upper left corner: a shot of the city’s subway tunnel that was built in the early 1900s and subsequently abandoned. A two-mile portion of the tunnel can still be viewed from I-75, and Cincinnati continues to be called the Queen City. Both remnants of another time evoke a sense of nostalgia and irony, hope and disappointment, and history and its ongoing complicated present. We see these local curiosities as appropriate jumping off points for this journal, which, among other things, welcomes explorations of the shifting rhetorical contexts of culture, identity, and place.