DREDGING THE HARBOR
FROM MY DESTOP TO YOURS: Vermilionite Rick Copeland supplied the desktop pic of the Maumee (Government) Engineers dredging the Vermilion / Vermillion River somewhere around the year 1912. And where there are big boats doing big works there are boys to watch.
In previous pix of the deck leading out to the light the walkway is raised – supported by wooden beams. Here both walkways appear in the pic too. It’s the first time I’ve seen the lower part. Maybe I just never noticed it before.
I’m sure I’ll eventually come across more information surrounding this particular scene as I move through the old files of The News.
FROM 1926: I am getting to know my new (old) microfilm reader-printer as the days go by. This week I’ve been visiting Vermilion in 1926:
In late April old Mrs. Otto (she was 81) out at Ceylon was burning trash in her orchard and accidentally set herself on fire. Huronite, John Boehm, was driving by and saw her ablaze near the L.S.E. tracks and stopped to help. He threw water on her. But to no avail: She didn’t make it.
The funeral services were held from her home, the Rev. Settledge of the Mitiwanga Reformed Church performing the service. She was buried aside her husband, Jacob, in Peake’s cemetery (on Darrow Road between route #61 and Hahn Road). Mr. Otto had died just a few weeks previous.
She had seven children, three sons, George, Jacob, and Henry, and four daughters, Mrs. L. Ackerman, Mrs. Fred Ackerman, Mrs. John Hau, and Mrs. John Reiber.
A.G. Risden 1860-1926: His whole name was Almor Goldsmith Risden and, as is obvious, he died at a rather young age. There is no mention of the nature of illness, only that he suffered for months prior to his death.
Almor was born in Vermilion Twp. in 1860 to George and Charity Goldsmith Risden. When he was just a tad his parents moved to a home on the lakeshore that is currently the home of Jean and Tom Beach (i.e. the Lester Pelton birthplace). He eventually married a Sandusky gal named Julia E. Galloway. For reasons unknown (to me) the couple spent two years in Fairberry, Nebraska.
Upon their return they lived the next 32 years in a home about 2 miles north of the aforementioned home. (This many have well been the childhood home of Lester Pelton on Risden Road.)
Basically, Mr. Risden was a farmer. But for two or three years preceding his death he operated a general store in Axtel, Ohio. (Likely the same store that is there today.)
At first the men thought they’d all been lucky and were congratulating themselves when they discovered Walker missing. When they found him he was unconscious.
They took him to a Dr. Walker’s office in Berlin Heights, and then to the hospital. In this report Mr. Walker was said to be suffering from a fracture at the base of the brain, and he remained unconscious and in serious condition – “but a trifle more hope is held for his recovery than at first,” the News then added.
Walker, the story said, was employed at the Baumhart drug store and also drove the East Shore School bus. He was very popular among his fellows and loved by the children.
I’m not sure (because I didn’t follow up the report yet) but I believe he eventually succumbed to those injuries. At one time the Walker family lived across the street from the News on Grand Street.
Historically,
A VERY MOTELY CREW
GOOD TIMES: This is another pic from Vermilionite Rick Copeland. I have a nice copy of it framed at the Vermilion News Print Shop. The names were handwritten on the back of the photo, so I scanned them and placed them on the front. (I thought it looked nice.)
My assumption is that the boys had gone to Put-In-Bay and came upon a little photo franchise where this pic was made. It is very truly a nice portrait of these Vermilion lads (when they were young and carefree.)
I am able to readily find information about most of the guys pictured - but Ralph Champion is a problem (at least for me). The best I could surmise is that he lived an aunt in Vermilion. (He's the only guy with a wristwatch. And what do you suppose the broom under Kuhnle's arm was supposed to be for?)
What a wonderful pic.
ORCHARD BEACH: When Elizabeth “Betty” Shimansky graduated from Vermilion High School in 1935 her class prophesied that by February of 1946 she would author a best selling book, and that her last name would have been changed. The prophecy was, of course, a tongue-in-cheek prediction. However, by the 1960s Betty had in fact written and published three books, and her last name had changed to Trinter. Though her books – three volumes of the same title, “The Way It Was”, have yet to make the New York Times “best sellers” list they were, and remain, very popular books for persons interested in the history of Vermilion, Ohio. But as important as these books are to local historians, etc., relatively few persons know that Mrs. Trinter also wrote numerous free-lance histories for various Ohio periodicals, a detailed history of Vermilion’s First Congregational Church, and a little known history of a small sub-division west of town called Orchard Beach.
In 1920 Betty’s grandfather Otto “O.K.” Shimansky and another fellow named C.S. Gongwer of Cleveland purchased 39 acres of land a few miles west of the Village of Vermilion for $22,250.00. Lake Erie was its northern boundary, the eastern boundary was Risden Road, and the southern boundary was the (New York Central) railroad. The western borderline ran “13.76 chains from the eastern line”. [Note: One “chain” equals 66 feet.] Mr. Shimansky called it “Orchard Beach” for, of course, its beach and the apple and peach orchards that he found on the lakefront property.
By July of 1921 utility lines for water, sewer, and electricity had been acquired, several cottages had been built, and the property was being advertised in several Ohio newspapers as a place where one could buy or rent pre-fab cottages on a seasonal basis. By 1924 a nine-hole golf course had been built on the south side of Lake Road. An old farmhouse on the north side of the road was refurbished and served as the clubhouse. In 1928 the place was destroyed in a fire, but a new clubhouse (pictured) on the south side of the road soon replaced it.
Through the years the waters of the great lake claimed its share of land along the coast. Four parallel piers built in 1922 disappeared within two years. And a series of pavilions on the bank with steps to the shrinking beaches suffered the same fate. In fact erosion was so prevalent that many lakefront deeds contained a clause that described some properties as only the land that remained after some it had been “washed away by the lake since the last survey”.
Mrs. Trinter also indicated that there were some exciting times at Orchard Beach too. She wrote that Vermilionite Alberta Johnson was teaching at Cuddeback School No. 2 on the corner of Risden Road when the interurban (i.e. Lake Shore Electric) tracks were being laid. Mrs. Johnson recalled the workers digging a little too close to the Cuddeback Cemetery across the street. She reflected, probably with some horror, that when the children returned from lunch on the day the tracks were being installed they returned with bits of dirty cloth, bones, and buttons they had found. After the public schools were consolidated and the one-room schools abandoned the little schoolhouse was used as a speakeasy for a short time. The shallow waters off Orchard Beach were ideal for rumrunners to offload their cargos.
Today Orchard Beach has evolved – as have all of the beachfront communities surrounding Vermilion – into a cluster of permanent homes. The Golf Course is become the beautiful Vermilion Country Club. The Lake Shore Electric tracks (visible in the photo) have been removed. And the schoolhouse / speakeasy has morphed into a private residence. All that really remains of the original plat is the cemetery that was exempted from the original purchase, and, of course, the ever-hungry waters of Lake Erie.
LESTER'S WHEEL PAGE 12:
SHOPTALK: Ye will note that I’m using a pic of my computer’s desktop at the beginning of “Shoptalk” this week. It seems like an appropriate thing to do. I change the pic on that desktop every week too.
The pic on this one is the Englebry store (currently Brummer’s Chocolates) on Division / Main Street. In the past it has been Fisher’s, Mayer’s and the Tradewinds.
The photo was taken right around the turn of the 20th century. You will note that horse transportation was the popular mode of transport at that time.
The Englebry Family played a large role in Vermilion’s funerary, mercantile and medical history. This week ye will note in the “Briefs” section of the page where Dr. Englebry’s young wife passes on. I believe that some years later he was hit and killed by a train while going on a call.
MORE SHOPTALK: Another week passes, and we move slowly, but surely ahead with things at the VNPSM. Ginny Wilkes (my sister) and my wife Georgi have brightened things up a bit outside with flowers and such. We have 2 benches out front now. And Gin brought in an old chair for effect.(It has an old tea kettle of flowers on it.)
We’ve hung some pix on the newly painted walls in the front office (old printed posters are on the wall above the windows looing into the shop). I got a new (antique) candlestick phone for the news desk. It matches one that, once upon a time, sat there.
Geo bought some new shades for the shop windows – so we’ll be removing the Styrofoam panels that have covered them through many winters past to let more light into the room. (Wowee!) It might be easier to work in the print shop (itself) with some additional light.
I’ve been re-glazing the windows on the storm doors at the entrance of the place. I’m hardly good at it. But I needed to try. (What better way to learn?) And I want to paint the trim on the front of the building before our Fish Festival Grand Opening.
I shot a new video for our Facebook page a few days back. It allows everyone a better view of the front office and what’s been done during the last several days. That some things have changed (even) since then doesn't’ really matter, because I’ll probably do another video next week.
POST OFFICE BOX: Please note that the MUSEUM has a post office box now. Now we won’t have to use our home address, nor the one at the shop for mail.
MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships to the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are now available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum P.O. Box 792 Vermilion, Ohio 44089
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AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
VOL. VII. NO. 50. – May 19, 1904
Not often have the people of Vermilion been shocked and grieved to the extent they were on Monday morning, when the news went swiftly from one to another: “Mrs. Frank Englebry has passed away.” It seemed beyond belief, it could not be possible. Everyone hoped it were buy an ugly dream, from which they would awake and find the news untrue. It was even harder to realize that any such a thing had happened, as Mrs. Englebry was in good spirits Sunday evening, looking hopefully into the future; and the whole family were at Church without the slightest intimation that in less than eight hours, one of their loved ones would be with them no more. It again proves the adage: “In the midst of life we are in death. “ also that passage of Scripture There is only a step between me and death.”
A baby girl came to this home. It would have been a happy one indeed, had mother and child lived; the cup of parental bliss would really have been overflowing. But the child was never to see the sorrows and suffering of this world and the mother gave up her life while performing the highest office of womanhood.
Mrs. Englebry will be sadly missed. Her place will be hard to fill, if indeed it can be filled.
She will be missed grievously in the home. She gave up many comforts and made great sacrifices to make the declining days of her aged parents pleasant. Her husband was bound to her with the cords of love which even death cannot break, but only stretch from earth to heaven, her son leaned on her for support as he was growing up to noble manhood. Here is a loss that is irreparable. She will be greatly missed in the family circle. She was the soul of the family gatherings. It would be hard to select one other whose departure would be as sorely felt.
Her loss is felt very keenly among her friends. They always received a most cordial welcome at her hands. Did anyone come into her presence, discourage, saddened by the battle of life, it seemed like going from the black storm clouds into the atmosphere of the brightest sunshine, for she had always a smile and a pleasant word for everyone.
Her Church has also sustained a severe loss. She was a loyal member, to be depended upon in any branch of its work, and never was she appealed to for counsel or assistance in vain. Perhaps her noble, self-sacrificing work will inspire others to follow her good example. May there be a dozen Elishas upon whom the mantle of Elijah will fail.
So we have all sustained a grievous loss, but we are not comfortless. We know that Mrs. Englebry is not dead, she lives. Such a life cannot die. She lives in the hearts of her loved ones, in the hearts of her friends and in the consciousness of the community. She also lives in that grander and happier existence, on the better, brighter shore. We ma go to her is we are faithful. And even the pain and sorrow at the separation for a while may be lessened by living in the hope, yea, the assurance of that grand reunion. Indeed it is this assurance that makes such a separation at all bearable.
Barbara Christine Nieding was born May 7th, 1866 in Vermilion. She was baptized on the 22nd day of August in the same year by Rev. Gerhard Kuhlen. On the 28th day of March 1880, she was admitted into full membership of the Reformed Church of which she was a life long, true and loyal member. On the 25th day of September, 1888 she gave her hand and heart to Mr. Frank Englebry, MDD. With whom she lived in affectionate union for almost sixteen years. This union was blessed with three children, one of whom, namely Rowland, survives her. She fell peacefully asleep on Monday morning May 16th, having reached the age of only 38 years, and 9 days. She leaves an aged father, a husband and son, four brothers and two sisters besides a large number of friends to deeply mourn their great loss. She was dutiful daughter, a faithful wife, a loving mother, an affectionate sister, a constant friends and an earnest, sincere Christian. We deeply feel and mourn our loss, yet we mourn not as those who have no hope. For her sweet life will cause us all to put forth more earnest efforts to meet her there. Her example will assist us, by the help of our Master also to sing that hymn with greater meaning and stronger endeavor:
Sir Henry M. Stanley of Livingstone rescue fame, and afterward one of the famous African explorers, died at his home in London England, Tuesday morning. The question of burying him beside Livingstone in Westminster Abbey is being discussed. The story of Stanley’s life is full of romance. He was orphaned at the age of two years and brought up in a poor house in England. At an early age he came to America and grasping the opportunities presented slowly rose. He took the name of a New Orleans merchant, his first employer and later at the instigation of a New York paper went to Africa in search of Livingstone. Mr. Stanley was a member of Parliament and a Knight of the United Kingdom.
The following points in the New School Code may be of interest to our readers:
The new school code provides that every wom n [sic] born in the U.S. or who is a wife or daughter of a citizen and who is over twenty-one years of age may vote for members of the Board of Education.
Village and township boards consist of five members who shall take office the first Monday of January succeeding their election.
The board of Education shall appoint a superintendent for a term not exceeding five years. Present terms of superintendents elected this spring shall expire August 31, ’05.
Superintendents are empowered to appoint teachers with approval and confirmation of the board.
No child under sixteen years of age shall be in the employment of any person, company or corporation during the school term and while the public schools are in session, unless such child shall have a schooling certificate. The certificate shall give age, and child shall have successfully completed reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic.
The code provides for three school examiners for each county, similar to existing conditions. After September,’04 all questions will be prepared under the direction of the state school commissioner. Certificates to teach will not be granted to applicants under eighteen years of age.
Certificates may be granted for one, two, three five and eight years. All certificates granted for five or eight years shall be renewed without examinations at the discretion of examining board. Three kinds of certificates are to be issued; Elementary, High School and Special. Literature has been added to the branches to be proficient in.
Teachers employed in public schools may dismiss their schools without forfeiture of pay on Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May 30, July 4, first Monday in September, Thanksgiving, Fast or Mourning Day, and Dec. 25th.
Wanted-To buy a good 1100 lb. horse for delivery purposes. Enquire at NEWS office.
May 17. The Canadian fish tug, May B. of Port Burwell, put in here May 12th and put on coal enough to supply her for about three months. The prince of coal in Canada is $4.50 a ton and at Erie $2.40. She put on 14 tons.
The Eugene Loesch arrived here May 12th from Ashtabula and will lay up.
The Puritan, Erie and Keystone also came down from Ashtabula and will set out of here.
Ringling Bros.’ circus was in town the 13th.
U.S. Training Ship, Michigan moved from her dock and went outside and indulged in gun practice the 17th.
The boats here have about all pulled out.
This year the Keystone fish Co. are painting their boats lead color inside and out, no trimmings of other color anywhere.
Tug Rainbos has her boiler taken out of her and today wnet into dry dock for a rebuild.
The tug W.J. McCarter has passed into the Keystones hands and her former owner is fishing on deck.
May 16, John Dash caused the arrest of an Erie fisherman who was caught dipping fish out of his pound nets. Charges will be made against the theif [sic] for fishing Pound nets without a licence [sic], as a like case was tried here last season for stealing fish and the defendant got free, so this case will be prosecuted along a different line and see if the culprit can be punished.
A fine baby boy came to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. L. _(?) Trinter Monday May 9th.
John Carr has severed his connections with the Vermilion Milling co. as miller and is now employed at Bailey’s hardware store.
The schooner Wyandotte will be ready to sail sometime next week.
Mrs. Kane is preparing the School of Dist. No. 2 for a fine entertainment to be given at the school house next week Friday evening, May 27th. A very entertaining program will be bresented [sic] and as the admission is only 10c the house should be crowded. The proceds [sic] will go to benefit the music fund.
Alma Battner is reported quite ill.
Don’t’ fail to see Barnum and Bailey’s circus at Cleveland, Monday, May 23rd. $1 round trip rate via Lake Shore Electric Ry.
Fourteenth annual Commencement of Vermilion High School, Friday evening, June 3. Prof. J. G. Park of Ada will deliver the class address.
The fire alarm was sounded Wednesday afternoon. The cause was a chimney burning out at the Lumley place recently purchased by Frank Haber. No damage.
F.J. Roth, manager of Shadduck’s Park, was in Norwalk the other day making arrangements for a game of ball Decoration Day between Norwalk and Vermilion clubs.
The Empire Dramatic Company is playing a week’s engagement at the Vermilion Opera House. The plays are very good and the actors are doing some excellent work. Their specialties are fine. It is seldom that so good a troupe comes to a town the size of Vermilion. The attendance has been fairly good considering the weather.
Hmmmmmm....
"...countless persons have occupied the chair while sharing their theories, opinions, and stories..."
HISTORY OF A CHAIR: The chair (pictured) is to most folks an unremarkable piece of furniture. If you saw it next to the trash along the road you’d probably not give it a second look lest you were looking for firewood. It’s been painted a million times. Well, perhaps not a million - but a lot. But setting its appearance aside it is a surprisingly sturdy chair. Were you of a mind, or need, you might stand on it to reach something on the top shelf of your cupboard without fearing for your life. As some persons of an age are wont to say about such things – “They don’t make them like that anymore.” And they don’t.
It’s an old chair. Exactly how old is not known (by this writer). But it is probably safe to say that it is between 75 and 100 years old. Plainly it has seen a goodly number of bottoms over the years –where it sat, and still sits, in front of the news desk in the old Vermilion News office on Grand Street.
During that time countless persons have occupied the chair while sharing their theories, opinions, and stories with the editor(s) of the newspaper and anyone else in hearing range. ‘Twere indubitably the place of honor for village mayors, councilmen, congressmen, state representatives, and wannabe mayors, councilmen, congressman, and state representatives; doctors, lawyers, businessmen and women, ministers, farmers, fishermen, contractors, carpenters, plumbers, sailors, electricians, union representatives, photographers, writers, salesmen, gossips, high school kids, and curious neighborhood children whose feet didn’t yet touch the floor. To be sure, the seat is well worn. That’s probably because it was worn well.
It is likely the seat that George Ritter occupied back in the 1920s when the editor’s wife, Bessie Roscoe, constantly admonished him for not coming through with his promise to build a library for the town. Bessie was a library trustee from 1916 to 1946. Her chastising, of course, was not entirely serious. But Mr. Ritter obviously did fulfill his promise.
It is also the seat that local political pundit Milton Karchin occupied – at least at the start of one of his highly emotional political speeches – until he jumped to his feet to punctuate his latest take on local or national political shortcomings. Few people in town were as vocal as he.
Then there was Laura Goetz. Laura was what some folks used to call “deaf and dumb”. Today such a label would be deemed politically incorrect. In truth Mrs. Goetz was simply deaf and had no ability to speak clearly. However, Mrs. Goetz had plenty of opinions and she worked at expressing them. She could sign and she could write. When she sat in the chair at the office she brought along a pencil and a pad of paper – a great deal of paper. Had she been able to hear and to speak she’d have give Mr. Karchin a run for his money.
And then there was Dalye Rodgers. Mrs. Rodgers was a highly intelligent person who had formally trained to be a nurse. Unfortunately, she was stricken with various illnesses in her early years and never got to practice. She was also a divorced mother of two young boys and struggled financially. To make ends meet she worked as a columnist and stringer for local daily newspapers and also wrote a weekly column for The News called “Chugging Along With Dayle”. Generally Dayle kept a “stiff upper lip” and would sit and have a pleasant conversation at the news desk. After finding that she was terminally ill she stopped in at the office to tell the editor the bad news. She never returned.
Contemporary poet, Pamela McCauley, observed in her poem “Empty Chairs” that somehow “Our spirits become infused / into the chairs of our lives. / Even when they become empty, / traces of the person remain. And so it is with this well-worn chair of a yesteryear that still sits by the news desk waiting for yet another bottom to warm it, and another story to be told by the person seated upon it.
In 1930 16 yr. old, George Nissen finished high school and set out to develop a bouncing apparatus (trampoline). Working in his parents’ garage using steel materials he found at a junkyard, he built a rectangular frame with a piece of canvas stretched across it. It was an instant hit – Nissen was sure he could commercialize it.
THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
[NOTE: This has not changed from last week. I didn't have time to change it.]In presenting to the public a history of the township of New London we regard as proper to preface our work by a list of the original owners.[VV Ed. Note: I have omitted the portion of the text with their names etc.]
The township very naturally took the name of New London from the fact that N. Douglass, N. Richards, and the Ledyards, were the principal, or largest original proprietors, or sufferers; and they resided in New London, Connecticut. The name of the township has never been changed since its first settlement.
The surface of the township is generally level, though, in many portions in the vicinity of the water courses, it is quite rolling, and other portions may be classed as gently undulating. It was originally, with the exception of as all portion in the fourth sectional known as the cranberry marsh, all densely covered by timber. The principal varieties of wood were black walnut; elm of several varieties, rock, red and white; maple – hard and soft; beech; oak – white, yellow and black; basswood, whitewood, hickory, white and black ash, cherry, dogwood and willow. There has been no particular change in the forest, except the almost entire disappearance, by use. The soil is very productive – well adapted to grass, small grains, corn, vegetables and berries – clayey, or marl, with a slight preponderance of the clay, and, in the third section, sandy; while rich, deep muck, is abundant in the fourth section. It is about equally well adapted to the dairy products, hay, grain or stock raising. Fruits of several kinds and varieties do well. In short, for fertility and productiveness, very few, if any town on the Fire-lands, can surpass this. At an early day in the settlement of the township, quite a large portion of the Third and fourth sections were deemed as low land and swampy; now, all or nearly all is drained and is tillable.
The streams running through the town are two. One running northwardly through the fourth and third sections, is formed by Skellenger’s creek, Knowlton’s creek and Carpenter’s creek, uniting with the Vermilion river in the township of Clarksfield, as its east branch; and Rawson’s creek, uniting with other small streams and making east creek, a west branch of Black river. The various creeks and streams are fed by many springs, which render this section of the county quite well watered.
When the first white men settled in New London the black bears and wolves were the most formidable; deer, raccoon, otter, sable and gray fox, wild turkeys, beaver, wild cat, hedgehog and fishers, or pekans abounded to a limited extent. [VV Ed. Note: a Pekan is large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.] The deer and wild turkeys became far more abundant about 1822, evidently coming into the town from the east: and the wolves appeared to follow the deer.
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
LINWOOD PARK PAMPHLET: This is a small, and very informative, pamphlet that tells a prospective visitor to Vermilion's Linwood Park everything they need to know about it were you looking stay there back in 1927.
It cost 40c a week to live in a cottage for a week; 25c to use the toilet; the bath tub was 15c; 10c to make use of a washing machine; 40c to sprinkle; and 10c to wash your car.
Amazing.
1. If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the diet soda.
3. When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you don't eat more than they do.
4. Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER count, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake.
5. If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.
6. Movie related foods (Milk Duds, Buttered Popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
7. Cookie pieces contain no fat-- the process of breaking causes fat leakage.
8. Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something. Examples are peanut butter on a knife making a sandwich and ice cream on a spoon making a sundae.
9. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples are: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and white chocolate.
NOTE: Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other food color.
10. Foods that are frozen have no calories because calories are units of heat. Examples are ice cream, frozen pies, and Popsicles.
ZIP AGAIN THIS WEEK: This week no podcast again. I continue to think about this section of Views - looking for a better way to present these videos.
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
Also, please note that all the video (MP4 and MOV) podcasts (when used) are done in the "Quicktime MP4 / MOV" formats. If you don't have a "Quicktime" it's easy to find and free to download.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
THE BEAT GOES ON: This page is generated by a dreaded Macintosh Computer and is written and designed by (me) Rich Tarrant. It will change weekly ~ usually on Saturday. Bookmark the URL (Universal Resource Locater) and come back at your own leisure. Send the page to your friends (and enemies if you wish). If you have something to share with those who visit this page, pass it on. And if you see something that is in need of correction do the same. My sister, Nancy, is a great help in that respect. It only takes me a week to get things right. And follow the links. You might find something you like. If you experience a problem with them let me know. Also, if you want to see past editions of this eZine check the new archives links below.
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Vol.10, Issue 10 - May 19, 2012
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