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Life at the End of the Line Junction
Read MoreIf you look closely at the roof and siding boards in the former machine shop, you’ll notice evidence of a prior life: charred sections, soot, nail holes indicative of a violent extraction. And if you walk down the hill from this place, where East Ashtabula…
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The Story Quilter’s Threads
Read MoreI love a good barn. My paternal grandfather had a lovely one, perched on a hillside of the farming village of Eglon, W.Va. I recall him telling me that he and his wife, Maud, built the barn in the 1930s, when they married, moved to…
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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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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…
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A veteran for peace
Read MoreWalter S. Nicholes slid into the school bus seat next to me, nodded and asked me where I was from. Walter is from Shaker Heights. He is a World War II veteran. He served in the Merchant Marines; entered the academy in July 1942. He…
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July 4, 2016
Read MoreThe fireworks in the neighborhood didn’t keep me awake, much. I was tired. I am tired. Working on a 100-page book about the county where I live and work is a wearisome, worrisome task. It has consumed me for three months now, and it will…
