SISTER GIN
DESKTALK:See this little mark in the parenthesis: (>)? It’s called a right-angled bracket or right chevron. In composing / writing html code for an Internet browser little items such as this bracket are important. If one is missing it can cause big headaches.
Last Saturday, for the want of two of these little chevrons, I spent two hours of my life searching for the reason the text in two of the “Views” articles were centering rather than being aligned to the left as I intended.
Below is a sample of some of the “html” code for VV. Writing the text is the easy part of the process. Adding the code so it appears properly on your computer is quite another matter altogether. It can be distracting.
FRANK: My friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Adkins passed on to the next life last Sunday afternoon. For the last decade or so Frank was a (tremendous) worker at the Vermilion Food Pantry. He did things without having to be asked – and he did them well. Many people (myself included) most certainly will miss him. The good Lord now has one the best right hand men that ever cast a shadow across the earth at his side.
GINGER: Who it is on my desktop this week is my sister Pearl “Ginny” Wilkes. I captured these shadows during a family gathering at Vermilion’s Olympic Outing Club a few years back. She (as the pic illustrates) is an animated speaker.
The nickname “Ginger” was given in reference to hair when she was but a lass. It was a reddish-copper color (i.e. ginger). Ergo, in time she became know as “Ginny”.
Historically,
SIX & THREE
VHS GIRLS BASKETBALL 1920: In the Vermilion High School Annual, "Hi-Times", it says, "The VHS girls basketball team had a fairly successful season, altho [sic] not shown by the results of the games." I guess not: They were six and three for the season. But, then, it's just a game - isn't it?
The girls on the team were: Margaret Keenan, Margaret Englebry, Edna Gegenheimer (years later Edna Hull), Pauline Decker, Rhea Appeman, Mildred Nuhn, and Blanch Hurlbut. They are not individually identified in the book, and I am unable to do so myself. But at least we have their names.
It might be of interest to some that the book in which this pic appears was the second once produced for the school. I didn't know when the printing of the annuals began until I took a closer look at this publication. It was produced by the Junior class in 1920. I'll have more from it in the future.
MOUNTAIN WHITES & VERMILION, O: Wandering through Vermilion’s early 20th century historical archives I often come across terms with which I am unfamiliar (e.g. Racket Store or Flinch). A Racket Store is what our grandparents / great-grandparents called variety stores. And Flinch is a card game played with a custom deck of 150 cards. A Michigan man named A.J. Patterson invented it in 1901. By 1903 one million games had been sold in the U.S. The game can still be found in some “Racket Stores” today. But being “parlor-game challenged” I’d never heard of it before I found it in these archives.
Another term that puzzled me was the repeated reference to “Mountain Whites”. I would, very honestly, “flinch” every time I encountered the expression. During the early years of the last century local churches were always collecting items for the “Mountain Whites”. While I generally understood the term, by current social standards it just seems such an unseemly a choice of words. Today we refer to these persons as Appalachia's "Mountain People”. But whether I like the archaic appellation or not I found the history of these folks to be very interesting.
Appalachia’s Mountain People / a.k.a. Mountain Whites were mostly Presbyterians of Scotch-Irish descent. During the Revolutionary War the patriot army in the southern states was largely composed of these people. While suffering some very serious losses in 1779 forces from Virginia, East Tennessee and North Carolina rallied. On October 7, 1780 they met a detachment of the British Army at King’s Mountain, North Carolina and carried the day – capturing 600 prisoners. The battle was one of the most decisive of the war helping turn the scales in favor of the colonies.
The downside of the victory was that the patriots of these States were especially tormented by British troops. Their houses were destroyed, and their stock and lands confiscated. Husbands and fathers were killed. Families scattered. Their livelihoods gone the survivors were driven into abject poverty. Lacking any viable prospects many of the young and healthy crossed the mountains into Tennessee and Kentucky where they could acquire good lands and begin life anew. Further exacerbating the situation was Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin (1792). While cotton lands became more valuable; slaves did all the work. Non-slave owners could find no employment as field hands or artisans were forced to sell out and took to the mountains.
Forced into the mountains and deprived of schools, churches, books, and lacking the means to obtain them each generation became more illiterate than the one preceding. The houses were small and isolated. The soil was poor. Children married early. But despite their trials and shortcomings they remained a “peaceable, civil, good-natured, kind, and clever” people with a faithful reverence for the Bible and its teachings. Their allegiance to United States is best demonstrated by the fact that during the American Civil War a significant number of soldiers from the mountains of western Virginia to northern Georgia and Alabama served in the Union Army. In fact the First and Second Congressional districts in the U.S. are said to have furnished more soldiers to the Federal army, in ratio to their population, than any other two districts in the entire nation.
Now – fast-forward forty some years to 1904 Vermilion, O. Miss Charlotte Goodell granddaughter of Franklin and Eunice Pelton and the Rev. Jotham and Anna Goodell is standing before the Congregation in Vermilion’s First Congregational Church explaining her work with “Mountain Whites” near Berea, Kentucky. Her mission was very much supported by local church groups. When she left town to return to those mountains she took with her, not only clothing and funds, but a sincere esprit de corps straight from the hearts and minds of Vermilion’s townsfolk – in that yesteryear.
SHOPTALK: Summer is atop the desk this week. Tis the way we hope it’ll be in just a few months. I made use of it here simply because it’s a comfortable-looking pic. It’s a summertide pic of the entry to the backyard of our home on Vermilion’s Oakwood Drive. It’s hard not to miss those days in the midst of winter. Perhaps the museum backyard will be as comfortable by the time another summer arrives.
TERRY SMITH: Retired Vermilion teacher Terry Smith visited the shop last Saturday. I’ve known him for a long time. That is, I have known of him for probably 50 years. I really didn’t know much about him – until now.
The former high school history instructor is an Ashland, O. native who attended Bowling Green State University. As a youngster his family visited Vermilion in the summer - and he has some good memories of those times. The place tends to grow on a soul. Today he’s a genuine Vermilionite.
He’s an asset to our community.
NEW WEDNESDAY: Wednesday a new machine will enter the shop. It’s a Ricoh color copier / printer. As odd / unusual as it might seem having such a piece of equipment installed in a letterpress museum it really isn’t. The Ricoh will be used to print copies of historical photographs of Vermilion – most taken by the late publisher and his kin that will be sold by the museum. We will also be able produce some of the old posters, signs, flyers, pamphlets, and booklets that were once printed by the presses at The News – all at the touch of a button. While one of our goals is to recondition three of the letterpresses so they are usable, the Ricoh will, hopefully, provide a way for us to generate additional funds to meet to reach that goal in a timely manner. It has a hard disc memory where many of these items can be stored and printed when called upon.
I should point out that the machine is a gift from a private party. No museum funds were used for this purpose.
THE CHANDLER-PRICE JOBBER: We’ve sent the rollers for our little Chandler-Price jobber press of to N. Carolina to be recast in rubber. They do offer a composite coating that is cheaper than the rubber, but it wears quicker.
In any case, we should be able to demonstrate the printing process on the Chandler-Price press very soon. (All I need to do now is learn how to use it.) Fun, fun, fun…
PLAQUE FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS SPONSORS: We’ll soon have a nice plaque in the museum honoring persons who have contributed funds for special museum projects. At the moment we only have one name. We expect to have many more.
SEARCHING: We currently interested in finding copies of The Erie County Reporter from 1880 to 1920 or '30. Nobody on earth seems to have them. If you have knowledge of any of them we'd appreciate hearing from you. There's a great deal of Vermilion information in them.
FIVE-OH-ONE-CEE-THREE: It’s now official. The museum is officially a 501(c)(3) organization. Consequently, all donations to the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011. (Thank heaven. Now I can fret about something else for months on end.)
VISITING HOURS: We are located at 727 Grand Street in Vermilion across the street from Vermilion's historic E&R Church. The museum is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays from 1 to 4 PM. On Saturday the museum it is open from 11 AM to 2 PM. A small admission donation of $3 (for adults) is requested. Children under the age of 11 will be admitted for free. Phone For Special Tours: 440-967-4555
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. VIII,NO.41– March 23, 1905.
Mrs. Anna Strickfaden and Chas McCauley were sentence by Judge Reed Friday to ten years in the Penitentiary for attempting to poison the former’s husband. They were taken there Wednesday.
[VV ED. NOTE: And so ends that Soap Opera. I hope both tried to further their education during their sabbatical.]
The commissioners in regular session Monday settled with Peter Bartzen, of Huron by paying him a total of $450, thus disposing of an old case growing out of the commissioners refusal to pay Bartzen for land which was bought by him after the opening of Berlin street in Huron and the granting of a franchise for the Lake Shore Electric Railway company. This land its seems, had never been dedicated for street purposes. The case was decided against the commissioners in the Supreme Court. Bartzen will pay the accrued costs.
E.L. Coen, Miles Lawless and Jacob Englebry, appraisers have appraised the effects of Margaret Miller, late of Vermilion, at $2,200.
The following is a dispatch from Lorain to The Cleveland World:
Prosecutor Lee Stroup announced today (Tuesday) that he would not allow Sunday ball playing in this county the coming summer. “If the people want Sunday ball, why don’t they go after their legislators?” he asks. “They stand for any kind of law when it is being enacted and then jump on the prosecutor if he enforces it.”
The report that a new railroad will run into Huron over the old right of way from Prouts station has been revived.
A dispatch from Akron says that over a ton of silver billets has been found in Silver Lake. It is thought to have been placed thee by Indians. [VV ED. NOTE: The word “billets” is defined as “a bar of metal”.]
The house owned by E.M. Ray, and occupied by Herman Henke and family, at Huron was burned to the ground Monday night. The family narrowly escaped with their lives.
There is a shortage of teachers in the Sandusky township schools. Only seven of the thirteen schools in the township are supplied with teachers.
A class of forty-one Indian students was graduated from the famous Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., March 16th.
The Executive Committee of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, at a meeting held in Cleveland a few days ago, voted unanimously to ask the next State Legislature to submit to the voters a constitutional amendment, providing for full suffrage for women. Work will be commenced immediately to influence members and prospective members of the next General Assembly in favor of the measure. The members of the committee agreed that there never was a time when there was so much favorable sentiment in the State as at present. Other orinizations [sic] of women will be invited to co-operate with the suffragists.
The Wabash is figuring on a railway to Lorain from the W. & [printing unclear] L.E. at Wellington. Several routes have been surveyed passing through Oberlin, S. Amherst, N. Amherst and the quarries. It is said that at Wellington end an attempt has been made to secure right of way.
Of the routes between Amherst and Lorain two of the surveys pass through Linwood cemetery, one through the vault.
Norwalk council has passed an anti-spitting ordinance.
Vermilion is soon to have a new barber shop. It will be located in the basement of the Englebry Blk.
The News force enjoyed a sample of Telling’s ice cream from the Department store on day this week. Thanks.
The suicide clause in assessment insurance policies is legal, is the decision of the supreme court of the State.
The fishing season is open but the ice prevents the operations of the fishermen. They are engaged in overhauling nets, etc., and looking forward to a more favorable time. A few nets have been set but few fish are coming in. Two new gas boats are in the river. One owned by Stevens and Shifler and the other by Otto Full.
John Baetz, a well-known Lorain drayman is dead from a surgical operation.
Capt. Ed. Lamp [sic] of Erie Pa. is here placing his new steam puller on the Fred Driscoll for trial.
Driscoll and Kishman have opened their Huron fishery. E.W. Kishman is in charge.
The funeral service of Albert Trinter, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Trinter, was held last Friday afternoon, Rev. Wm. G. Klein officiating. We laid him to rest with a sad heart for he was an exceptionally bright and promising child. Still the thought of parting was made more bearable by the hope of that meeting on a better shore. He cannot come to us but we can go to him.
Pure ice cream can be had at all times at A.D. Baumhart’s.
The Vermilion Chapter of the Eastern Star placed a piano in their rooms this week.
There will be thirty head of good horses, consisting of HeavyHorses, General Purpose and Matched Teams sold to the highest bidder, at Dan Hess’ Stable at Milan, O., next Saturday, March 25th at 1 o’clock, p.m.
Mrs. Edward Hanford of Henrietta Tp. is seeking to have her husband pardoned from the penitentiary, where he was sent last November for an unmentionable crime.
Mrs. J.B. Baumhardt and daughter Nelle attended the funeral of the form’s little nephew in Vermilion Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Krapp, Sr. and daughter Eva of Vermilion spent Sunday in town.
Willie Nuhn has been seriously ill with an attack of diphtheria, but is slowly improving at this writing.
Miss Elsie Hillberg who is employed in chas Lawrence, Jr’s., store in Flint, Mich., is at home for a few days. She has been to New York selecting goods for her brother’s store.
F.M. Clary was in town Sunday bidding good bye to his friends as he is going to Cuba to be gone for a season.
Edgar Henry has sold his farm which was known as the Brewer homestead, to Mr. Hunter.
Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Coen Grunzenbach attended the funeral of Mrs. Cook of Henrietta, the 14th. Mrs. Cook was a resident of Birmingham a number of years ago and was well known here. Her maiden name was Jeanette Higgins.
Clara Slocum was absent from school the first of the week on account of sickness.
Little Norris Baker, Decourcy and Ruth Crum, and Nina Driver are just recovering from the mumps. [VV ED. NOTE: Nina Driver later became Vermilion’s Nina Snell.]
Vetrenary [sic] Durner of N. Amherst was here last week to care for a sick cow owned by Adam Kneisel.
Jerry Brown and sons are getting up a large quantity of wood ready to buzz.
C.A. Baldwin will soon go to the stone quarry to work.
The mumps seem to be the prevailing amusement in this section. Dr. Quigley of Vermilion is a frequent visitor although there is a C.S. [i.e. Christian Science] doctor right in our midst. [VV ED. NOTE: The “C.S. doctor comment was apparently intended to be facetious. At that writing it was illegal for C.S. doctors to practice without a license from the state.]
Report comes from Angola, Ind. Of the death of Mrs. Abigail Disbro at the age of 90 years. She was the oldest sister of C.A. and F.O. Baldwin’s mother. – JACK
Hmmmmmm....
"...saying that this is a portrait of the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce c.1925 is more conjecture than fact..."
MOVERS & SHAKERS (METHINKS): To be very honest I don’t know the real occasion prompting the taking of the portrait accompanying this monograph. But I can, with some confidence, assign an approximate date to it: 1925. That’s because one of the men in the photo looks precisely the same (right down to his brilliant white hair and bow tie) in another photo that has the date on it. That man – for those who’ve not already recognized him – is F.W. Wakefield. He’s the gentleman seated in the middle of the group in the light colored trousers and shoes.
Though, as indicated, I’ve no concrete idea as to the reason this particular moment in time was captured it’s probably safe to assume that it was significant. That’s because it was taken and mounted by Vermilion’s professional photographer Rudy Moc. So what, then, might have been going on here? Were these guys just friends who wanted their picture taken together or – to borrow from an old Sherlock Holmes expression – just what type of game might have been afoot?
Aside from Mr. Wakefield I can name only two other souls in the photo: my grandfather, Pearl Roscoe, seated, far left; and C.A. “Charlie” Trinter, standing, far right. While I recognize the faces of several of the other men I am unable to name them. But given the identities of the three I do recognize I might infer that these were some of the town’s “movers and shakers” circa 1925. And I would further extrapolate from that that this is very likely a formal portrait of Vermilion’s Chamber of Commerce in that yesteryear.
My assumption, however wide, is based on what I know about Wakefield, Roscoe, and Trinter. All three were businessmen, and all passionate promoters of Vermilion as an ideal place to shop, to locate new businesses, and for families to live and prosper. Since his arrival in town in 1901 newspaper owner / editor / publisher Roscoe had been among those actively encouraging and lobbying for new industries to locate in the village, and for folks to shop locally. To Vermilion native Charlie Trinter in his work with the local school system and post office, as well as with his insurance and realty firm, encouraging such growth made good sense. Mr. Wakefield’s very successful Wakefield Brass manufacturing plant in Vermilion certainly helped efforts to have new industries locate in the village. Moreover, he had helped several firms locate here over the years. (Note: Dall Brothers auto parts manufacturing, and later the Dall automobile dealership are probably the most familiar to current residents.)
While my saying that this is a portrait of the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce c.1925 is more conjecture than fact, I can think of no other reason for these three men (regarding or disregarding the others) to have had their portrait taken together; except that they were, all three, very interested in improving “their” town. In any case, I gave this portrait a name. I call it “Movers & Shakers”. Anyway you cut it these were the people who “moved and shook” our town when it needed to be “moved and shaken”.
Ref: Vermilion News Print Shop Museum photo archive.
CLOSE UP: This photo featuring the south side of Liberty Avenue in Vermilion - between Division / Main and Grand streets is not new. It's part of a much larger photograph taken of the heart of town around 1900.
While the whole pic is wondrous and beautiful I thought taking a closer look at its parts was very interesting. The Pelton-McGraw grocery store on the left was later razed, replaced by the Erie County Bank building. Anyway, I though the space between the grocery and "Leidheiser's Place" was interesting: to know that at one time there was just a fenced-in empty lot. The store probably used it for storage of some kind.
The pic also provides us with a better look at the other buildings along the strip. The only building still standing today is the Englebry clothing store that later became the Liberty Theatre (currently a gallery called the "Art Scene".) And, of course the M&E church is long gone as well.
It's just a nice perspective of old Vermilion.
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.
…organized was one hundred thousand dollars, Messrs. Wood, Woodward and Sheffield becoming the largest stockholders. The company included many of the leading businessmen in the place and several of the ablest farmers in the vicinity. A board of directors was chosen September 23, 1876, consisting of Bourdett Wood, Abishai Woodward, E. J. Sheffield, Andrew Smith, A. C. Beckwith, and the following year two more directors were added, viz: D. M. Harkness and J. B. Higbee. Bourdett Wood was chosen president; Abishai Woodward, vice-president; and E. J. Sheffield, cashier; and these gentlemen are the present officers, with Abishai Woodward, Jr., as teller. The stockholders of this bank in number represent not less than one million three hundred thousand dollars, two of the directors, Mr. Wood and Mr. Harkness, representing, together, three-fourths of a million.
The First National Bank was organized September 30, 1875, the capital stock being fifty thousand dollars. The directors are: J. T. Worthington, Dr. Amos Woodward, J. B. Higbee, William McKim, Joseph Egle and J. K. Richards. J. T. Worthington is president, and E. H. Brown the efficient cashier.
DRY GOODS.
In this line of business, Mr. Anthony Ruffing, Messrs. Boyer & Eichhorn, and Hilbish, Harsch & Co., supply the needs of the denizens of Bellevue and surrounding country. Mr. Ruffing has been in Bellevue since 1856, and has been connected with the dry goods business, either as a clerk, partner or sole proprietor, ever since, with the exception of five or six years. No man in Bellevue is more attentive to his business. Of a quiet and reserved disposition, he, nevertheless, is very industrious and energetic, and has built up a very successful trade. He enjoys the esteem and confidence of all classes of citizens. Mr. Joseph Boyer, the senior member of the firm of Boyer & Eichhorn, has been in the dry goods business since 1863, at which time he connected himself with Applegate & Company. In 1865, he took the leading place in the business, and the firm was thereafter known as J. H. Boyer & Co., until 1868, when Mr. Eichhorn was received as a partner. Both these gentlemen are peculiarly well adapted to the pursuit they follow, and enjoy a generous share of the community's patronage. Hilbish, Harsch & Co. have but recently established themselves in this business.
E. M. Wolf, the village clothier, came to Bellevue in 1863, and established himself in business in the same room he now occupies. He has not changed his place of business a single time in all these years, and his prosperity is proof that he is popular with his patrons.
Messrs. Higbee & Company are the proprietors of a business industry of great value and importance to the prosperity and growth of Bellevue. The surrounding country, for many miles north, south and west, can with difficulty be excelled as a wheat producing country. The soil, a mixture of sand and clay, with a substratum of limestone, contains all the needed ingredients for the abundant growth of this cereal. The senior member of this firm, in the year 1849, taking cognizance of the fact that this was an excellent wheat district, and that Bellevue might give birth to a business that would stimulate the production of this grain, undertook the erection of a flouring mill. He was connected in this enterprise with a Mr. Lawrence, and on the first of January 1850, the stone mill, with four run of stone, and a building thirty-six by eighty feet on the ground and sixty feet in height, was opened to the public. Hither came the farmers with their wheat and found a ready active market. In 1853, Mr. Higbee purchased his partner's interest, and continued the business single-handed. In 1859, his mill was burned but was immediately rebuilt. In later years L. F. Harris, and his son, J. A. Higbee, were admitted as partners. Mr. Harris soon withdrew, Mr. Higbee and his son continuing the business. In 1873, or early in 1874, the Higbee's purchased the mill of H. M. Sinclair & Co., and received Mr. T. L. Branan as a partner. Higbee & Co., in the persons of J. B. Higbee, J. A. Higbee and T. L. Branan, became the proprietors of these two large fine flouring mills, the largest industry of the kind under none management in Northern Ohio. The old mill, or the stone mill, had, in the meantime, been enlarged, and at this time contains nine run of stone, and has a producing capacity of two hundred and fifty barrels of flour per diem, while the Sinclair mill produces two hundred barrels. Worked to their full capacity, every working day in the year, these mills would turn out about one hundred and forty thousand barrels of flour per year. The firm, besides supplying the home demand, ship about seventy-five thousand barrels yearly. This flour goes to all points along the Lake Shore road, east, and into Pennsylvania, New York and the New England States. They tell us that they purchase not less than five hundred thousand bushels of wheat per year.
In addition to their milling business, this firm is the largest grain buyers and shippers in this section of the State. They own two large elevators at this point and one in Clyde. In addition, they ship grain from all the principal points along both branches of the Lake Shore road between Toledo and Cleveland.
This house is likewise interested as an equal partner with Mr. T. R. Butman in the hitter's patents of hot blast furnace automatic doors and rocking grates, which are marvels in their way. They act as preventives of smoke, and save both labor and fuel. The firm have their main office at this place with a branch office at Cincinnati. These doors and grates are in great demand. Mr. J. B. Higbee, the senior member of the firm, has been identified' with the growth and prosperity of Bellevue for upwards of…
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
YE OLDE FLOSS: As mentioned elsewhere (in a prior publication) while sorting through boxes from the attic in the print shop museum it is best to sift through all the debris at the bottom of boxes. That's because sometimes (only sometimes) there are little surprises to be found therein.
That is where I came across this tiny tube of dental floss. I found an advertisement in a dental magazine from 1916 for this article. A box of about 10 little tubes with 12 yards of floss went for around $1.25. I also came across an eBay sale for the same article. Someone was asking $80 for it.
I don't think so. It's an interesting piece. But it isn't really worth much more than the price they were asking for it in 1916.
Maybe in another 100 years after basic health care has improved so much no one will know for what it was used.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.-Aldous Huxley
The most violent element in society is ignorance.-Emma Goldman
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.-Saul Bellow
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?-Steve Polyak
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.-Norman Juster
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.-William G. McAdoo
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.-Bob Edwards
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.-Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.-Bertrand Russell
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.-Josh Billings
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.-Tobias Smollett
You can be sincere and still be stupid.-Charles F. Kettering
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-Will Rogers
Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.-Christopher Andrea
Your ignorance cramps my conversation.-Anthony Hope
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.-Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.-Alfred North Whitehead
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?-Author Unknown
Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.-Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.-Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition
Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.-Author Unknown
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.-Frank Zappa
Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.-Attributed to Albert Einstein by Frederick S. Perls
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?-Author Unknown
NADA AGAIN: I may begin doing the podcasts again; but I'm thinking of just doing audio readings. The videos on-line are just becoming too redundant unless they really show something special. The short videos that appear on the VNPSM Facebook page are more purposeful. You might want to check them out.
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.
Another great book with Vermilion Roots is, "Grandmas’ Favorites: A Compilation of Recipes from Margaret Sanders Buell" by Amy O’Neal, Elizabeth Thompson and Meg Walter (May 2, 2012). This book very literally will provide one with the flavor of old Vermilion. And ye can also find it at Amazon.com. Take a look.
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.
If you're looking for my old links section (pictured) I've replaced it with a pull-down menu (visible in the small box next to the word "Go"). If you're looking for links to more Vermilion history check that menu.
How the old links menu looked
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Vol.10, Issue 51 - March 2, 2013
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