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The lost skill of frugality
Read MoreFrugality. 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…
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American Penmanship’s father had a famous daughter, too
Read MoreEllen Spencer Mussey: The Father of Penmanship’s Trail-Blazing Daughter Ellen Spencer was but 12 years old when she went to work in the penmanship school of her famous father, Platt R. Spencer of Geneva. She was the youngest penmanship teacher in Ohio, and her father,…
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Pleasure Grounds marks 150 years
Read More(July 5, 2019) The smoke from the July 4th fireworks has cleared, replaced by the oppressive humidity and haze typical of July along the Lake Erie shoreline. The bursts of fire and glimmer over the Geneva-on-the-Lake business district was witnessed by thousands of motorists and…
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Memorial Day and a Good Question at GOTL
Read MoreOne of the traditions at Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio’s oldest summer resort, is the band, Good Question. Although not quite as old as the 150-year-old resort, Good Question is nearing its golden anniversary, says Paul Bodnar, one of the band’s original members. Bodnar, of Saybrook Township, grew…
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Pleasure Grounds
Read MoreOur newest book, Pleasure Grounds, arrives May 22 and will be available for purchase from this website, at Bridge Street Artworks and several vendors at Geneva-on-the-Lake, which is book’s topic. July 4 of this year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of these Lake…
