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A Barn Quilt love story
Read MoreMy new documentary film, “The Story Quilter’s Threads,” ends with this moving story about a 40-year romance between a dairy farmer and Kent State University professional.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Read MoreThe Crescent Farm barn in Rome Township has a beautiful barn quilt that hints at the farm’s clandestine past.
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Ashtabula Harbor, a history
Read MoreIn the fall of 2016 I embarked upon the most ambitious writing project of my life, crafting a history of Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. Why? For more than two decades, The Harbor was the greatest iron ore receiving port in the world. More iron ore flowed through…
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A sun sets, we beg for understanding
Read MoreComplain we must about the rain, the clouds, the odd weather that tinkers with our plans for a picnic, wedding, campfire and fishing. The fact remains that the clouds are good for sunsets, and sunsets are good for the heart. A sunset well executed can stop…
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On being INFJ
Read MoreAll my life I have felt weird, out of place. Like a dust bunny in an operating suite. A vegetarian at a Texas barbeque. A lifetime WCTU member at a distiller’s convention. The rest of the world was having fun, I observing, thinking about what…
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Keys
Read MoreMy friend of many years, Betty Layport Feher, recently dug out some memorabilia from Shady Beach Hotel, one of the many relatively elegant hotels that once operated at Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio’s oldest summer resort. Shady Beach dates back to 1897 and stood where the village’s recreation…
