Film transfers, books & films by The Feather Cottage

A stone farmhouse in Ohio’s Wine Country

Do you love wine? Lake Erie? History? A house with a story? Privacy, room for a garden, shady yards and wildlife? The Helwig stone house could be yours. This unusual stone house in the heart of Ohio’s wine country is just four miles south of Lake Erie and Geneva State Park and Marina. The resort … Read More

Labels dehumanize people, justify hatred

Our “traveling road show” culture loves to put labels on people, especially people who refuse to buy a ticket to their show. As a retired reporter, I understand the value of tagging people. Labels make it possible to study and write about wide swaths of the population as if people were chemical compounds that act … Read More

Mourning a tree in blossom

Its five main limbs resembled the biceps of a circus weightlifter. They emerged from the low-set trunk just a few inches above the former orchard’s soil; twenty-inches in diameter at their widest, the limbs rose like a worshiper’s arms and terminated with scores of vertical, whip-like fingers on which grew the fruit. Pocked by the … Read More

Mail Pouch

It was the summer 1985. I was in my second year as a photographer and occasional writer for the Ashtabula Star Beacon while, when searching for feature art in the Rock Creek area, I came across a barn being painted. The barn was just north of Rock Creek, on Route 45. The painter was Harley … Read More

The lost skill of frugality

Frugality. There’s a word you rarely hear on YouTube or see on electronic screens these days. With the alleged booming economy, I suppose most Americans don’t have much need for frugality in 2020. But it hasn’t been that many years ago when being frugal was a way of life, and I’m not talking about The … Read More

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