O-deer and old clipping
SHOPTALK: The pic of the deer on the shoptop this week was (when it was taken back in the early years of the 20th century) rare. Today many of us think nothing of seeing a deer in town. But it was rare because a great habitat for deer in our area still existed – a hundred years back.
All the development south of town (and elsewhere) has successfully robbed these creatures of their natural habitat and thus, some consider them to be a nuisance. (i.e. they chew the bark off our trees and eat our plants, etc.) The reality of the matter is that we are really the nuisance.
And so it is in 21st century America.
On my home-top this week is an article scanned from the NEWS reporting a meeting of the local Rotary Club wherein a member of Vermilion’s Olympic Outing Club spoke. The gist of the report was that after the flood of 1919 club members began building cottages on their grounds. That was great – but acquiring potable water was a problem. So they were asking Vermilion Village officials to extend their water-lines to their property.
It did, eventually, happen.
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER’S DIARY: I came across one of my great-grandfather’s diaries – one written in 1867. It’s not detailed by any means. Most of the days are spent at home and around the farm doing farm things – or “in town”(Milan, Ohio) helping someone build a house, a barn, or working at a mill or the mill dam. His nights are spent at home or at Norwalk or Milan’s Masonic Lodges. He attended church on most Sundays. He also played fiddle / guitar for dances. And on the 4th of July he was a drummer. He also used quite a bit of tobacco – chew and smoke. In July he purchased “a keg of beer” for $2.00. I guess he wasn’t a saloon denizen, but he did join an organization called “The Sons of Temperance”. While the name implies a tee-totaling it was somewhat of a misnomer. The benefit of joining the group was actually the acquisition of some life insurance. Though the organization did favor total abstinence it apparently wasn’t a requisite.
Interesting stuff.[At least it interests me.]
I know his daily life was very likely more complicated than the diary indicates. But he was really good at making daily entries. I don’t know that I would do as good. One might do it with Facebook, but I find that whole thing exceptionally stupid. Perhaps someone a hundred or so years from now might not agree.
FRANK – THE ARTIST: My friend Vermilion artist Frank Homitz came by during the week. He had a very nice color drawing of a sailing vessel with him that I scanned. I also made several copies of the work for him:
He also allowed me to scan several boating pix, a Furgason Pool Hall 5¢ token, and a small souvenir magnifier from the Crow Lumber Company (see Artifacts).
Very cool stuff.
The novel is based on Pulitzer Prize winning author William Styron’s life growing up in Newport News, his school years at Christchurch School in Middlesex County, and tells a little known story about the early years of this famous native son.
Buxton knew Styron well and based her novel on real characters and what he told her about those early tumultuous years.
The book is available in paper back for $15.00 with tax and can be purchased locally at Buxton and Buxton Law Office in Urbanna, ordered from any book store, Amazon.com or Brandylane Publishing Company. A signed, hard back edition may be purchased from Mrs. Buxton directly for $30.00 by writing her at Box 488, Urbanna, VA 23175 and including $6.00 for tax, postage and packaging.
On July 1st she will be at Vermilion’s Ritter Public Library for a book signing and discussion. This will be a rare opportunity to touch base with one of America’s most gifted authors. So be there.
NEW MUSUEM SCHEDULE: Beginning now the museum will be open six days a week from 11 AM to 3 PM. We will be closed on Sundays and Holidays.
Private tours during those hours and during the evening can be arranged by calling the museum, or stopping in to see us.
FIVE-OH-ONE-CEE-THREE: The museum is a 501(c)(3) organization. Consequently, all donations to the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011.
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 Monday thru Saturday from 11 AM to 3 PM. A small admission donation of $3 (for adults) is requested. Children accompanied with an adult will be admitted free. For Special Tours call: 440-967-4555.
We are closed on Sundays and holidays.
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 Museum727 Grand Street Vermilion, Ohio 44089440.967.4555.
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Historically,
BOB: Robert Alva Boone was the oldest son of Esther and Alva Boone. The family lived on the east side of Perry Street just south of the railroad in a block home Alva and his older sons built about the time these shadows were captured.
The pic was taken in the side yard of the Tarrant home (my family’s home) directly across the street from Boone’s. Bob was born October 19, 1932 (probably in Sandusky or Berlin Heights). But he grew up in his grandma’s (Rosella) house on Perry – right next door to the one his father later built.
Bob had three younger brothers; Harold, Wayne (“Weiner”), and Tom (one of my best friends). He also had a sister, Doris (Stwan).
The children in the Boone and Tarrant families frequented interacted. Sometimes it was hard to tell who lived where – which explains Bob having his pic taken in our yard.
The snap was taken around 1952. Bob may have been working as a “jumper” for the Maurer-Wikel Dairy. Eventually he spent 4 years in the Navy traveling all over the planet. Afterward he went to work for the Lorain Telephone Company and stayed with them for 35 years. He married a Vermilion gal named Donna Wiencke.
In the background is my mother’s old Pontiac “woody” station wagon. Before she traded it some of the wood had rotted away at the back. The girl by the tree behind Bob is one of my sisters. But I can’t tell which. The kitty-cat is one of many we had through the years. (Could’ve been “Raggs” or “Mops”.) And the pooch barely visible on the lower left is our unforgettable fox terrier with a thousand lives, Mister Chips.
Bob died November 25, 2002 at the age of 70. It seems so young to me now (as I near the same age). He was always an up guy – friendly and happy. Just as you see him in this pic.
I attended his funeral at the Congregation church, and I wasn’t sad. Had he been an unhappy man I might have felt differently. But he wasn’t
WITHOUT ROSE COLORED GLASSES: I’ve often thought that if the architects of historical districts – whether in our pretty city or elsewhere in America – really wanted to make communities historically accurate pretty would not be the adjective used to describe them. In honest retrospect there was very little that one might call pretty about wooden sidewalks, and dusty and / or muddy streets sprinkled with an occasional island of horse poop. Then there was the cacophony of the throaty cough of fishing tugs along the river combined with the rumble and roar of coal-fired locomotives that once echoed through the village. Both spewing out dark clouds of coal smoke and ash that would settle like a dark cosmic dust over everything in town earning the wrath of numerous housewives whose white sheets drying on the line suddenly turned gray. So, pretty? Perhaps, but only through rose-colored glasses or from a hundred years in the future.
Those were among my thoughts when I first looked at the snapshot that accompanies this essay. The photo was among several snaps provided me by Vermilionite Judy Shaw Williams, and is undoubtedly the least attractive of all of them. I would not have looked twice at it had the name of the tug in the photo not caught my eye. It is the Grandon.
I’ve written some about this tug in the past because it belonged to a Lake Erie legendary character named Edward Charles “Big Ed” Lampe (1874-1947). Before Captain Lampe owned the vessel it had been used to transport passengers from Sandusky to the Lake Erie Islands. Originally the Grandon was, believe it or not, a rather elegant boat (inset pic taken 1905). The Craig Ship Building Company in Toledo built it in 1893. It was made of wood, nearly 60 feet long and 17 feet wide, and it was powered by a steam boiler.
Although I don’t know the definite date Lampe purchased the craft it was probably sometime just before or during the early 1920s because prior to that time Captain Lampe, of all things, was farming in Sylamore, Arkansas. [Note: The reason behind that phase of his life totally escapes me. Unfortunately he’s not around to explain.] In any case, he had refitted the Grandon by 1920 and was fishing out of the Port of Vermilion. This particular photograph – from 1936 – shows the refitted tug tied up at bottom of Huron Street just a bit north of Vermilion’s water treatment plant. In the background is the Vermilion Lagoons housing subdivision with only one house (barely visible back left).
Big Ed was quite a talent. He was, obviously, a tug captain, but he also owned a fishery (i.e. Southwest Fish in the area where Romp’s marina is currently located); built several boats; and had interests in a number of other marine related businesses in Vermilion and Lorain. And though he only had an eighth grade education he was surprisingly literate. At one point in time he wrote an extensive essay about the reasons for the decline of several fish species in the Great Lakes for The Vermilion News.
But back to the Grandon: Big Ed worked her hard. Shortly after some good citizen immortalized her image with this snapshot she was abandoned just above the Vermilion highway bridge. And when workers were dismantling the Lake Shore Electric Bridge, around 1938, part of the bridge collapsed and sunk her. She wasn’t, however, dropped from the official marine rolls until 1945. Some time later her hull was recovered from the river and destroyed.
I suppose when one thinks about it the Grandon’s life is much like our own. We start out pretty and end up tired and worn looking. And when we look back we always do so through rose-colored glasses. We’re inclined to be blind to the bad – the difficult – parts of our journey. Perhaps that’s not a bad thing – not atall.
Ref: U.S. Census date: 1910 – 1949; BGSU Great Lakes Vessels online index; Special Thanks To Judy Shaw Williams.
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. X – NO.8 – August 2, 1906.
BORN – To Superintendent and Mrs. O.L. Damon, a daughter, July 28, 1906.
The annual Sunday School Picnic of Brownhelm township will be held at Linwood, Thursday, August, ’06.
Adam Claus is quite ill with an attack of typhus fever; a nurse from the St. Clair hospital is helping care for him.
Miss Bernice Hales went to Vermilion to take the L.S. Electric for Bellevue Saturday.
The Base Ball game was a bad one for the Birmingham’s in the play between Wakeman and Birmingham 16 to 06 in favor of Wakeman.
Mr. Burkmier’s barn and contents, consisting of hay, grain, two horses, one calf, harness and other things of value, were consumed by fire last Thursday night.
The neighbors of Mr. E.G. Hales are feeling quite dismal over the news that he has sold his farm here and is going away from us.
The L.O.T.M. are having a picnic at the home of Mr. Horace Ball on the Lake Shore today.
Mr. Wm. Funk has bought the building in which his store is and contemplates making some changes, to make more room. He needs the room badly, as he is doing a large business and has a big trade.
The season for Sunday school picnics is now at hand.
The little ladies of town and vicinity had a picnic Tuesday in Mr. Hillings woods and had for their guests a small party from Oberlin among whom was Miss Maud Colier, who taught school in the district east of town a number of years ago.
The funeral of Mrs. English who died at the home of Mr. W. Sanders took place in the Catholic church at north Amherst, she was buried in the cemetery there. Mr. English had just returned to his business in New York when he was summoned back by the sudden change, and death had come before he reached here.
Decoursey Crum is on the sick list.
Henry Nuhn and Albert Kuhl spent Sunday at Coon Nuhn’s.
[VV. Ed. Note: “Coon Nuhn”? One can’t make this stuff up.]
A hearing was had in the court of common pleas on Tuesday on the alimony branch of the divorce case of Jennie F. Hart vs. Louie J. Hart of Huron. Judge Reed gave to Mrs. Hart the homestead at Huron, which is valued at about $2,500 and divested her husband of his rights in the property, but enjoined Mrs. Hart from disposing of or encumbering the property without the consent of the court. Hart is to continue to pay his wife $4 a week for support of the minor children and a hearing will be had next term upon a motion to increase this allowance.
In the divorce suit of Mary Fitch vs. Lincoln J. Fitch Judge Reed on Tuesday granted the plaintiff an extra allowance of $25 temporary alimony.
C.E. Krapp to Reber F. Quigley part of lots 73 and 74, Vermilion Village. $1,600.
[East side of Water Street in vicinity of the property currently occupied by the Rotary Centennial Park.]
George W. Harris to Sidney W. and Frankie M. Simons, lots 155 and 156 Block 1, Vermilion Village. $1,200.
[VV. Ed. Note: South side of Ohio Street between Washington and Grand streets in the vicinity of the property now occupied by Albert “Jim” Hart.]
Chas Wetzel et al., to William Harp, lot 110 South Deport street, Ceylon Village. $1 etc.
Charles S. Ruggles to Tena R. Runyan, lots 36 and 37, Berlin township – “Cresent View Allotment” - $300.
Monday a part of workmen on the L.S. & M.S. Ry. were nearly caught by an engine and caboose while on a handcar. They jumped in time but the engine hit their car.
The Ohio Motor Company of Sandusky is strictly on the hustle order. Monday an agent called at the NEWS office and contracted to furnish us with a 4-hp. Gasoline engine ready for running within three days. The engine was place Thursday after noon and started by a machinist from the co. and is now doing good work.
[VV. Ed. Note: This little snippet is something that I find to be very enlightening. While I knew that the presses at the NEWS were powered by a gasoline engine outside the building attached to a line shaft that ran into the shop I never really had documentation of that fact until I ran across this piece. What I don’t know is where the engine sat – nor where the shaft entered the building. Another things that may be related to this item is the fact (I wrote about last week) about the volume of local news having sharply decreased during the months of June and July. I was aware of the fact that Roscoe was having a problem with his power source – but I never equated the decrease in the paper size to this problem. It certainly must have been relevant.]
Another things that may be related to this item is the fact (I wrote about last week) about the volume of local news having sharply decreased during the months of June and July. I was aware of the fact that Roscoe was having a problem with his power source – but I never equated the decrease in the paper size to this problem. It certainly must have been relevant.]
The Vermilion Independents will play Berlin Heights Saturday afternoon. Sunday they play the New Londons.
The Woodmen of the World will hold their annual picnic at Shadduck’s Park Sunday next.
The New Company to operate the Wood-Working Plant is organized under the name of “The Lake Shore Wood-Working Company, and are only awaiting incorporation papers, and expect to commence operations in about a week. Meantime the machinery and plant is being put in good working order; and arrangements made for a new dry Kiln.
Hmmmmmm....
TALE OF TWO SUPERS, ETC.: Here is a “factoid” few Vermilionites are aware of: There were no Vermilion High School Annual books until the year 1919. Originally they were called “Hi-Times”, and they were much less than half the size of the current “Log” book annuals. They’re very nice publications – that were, incidentally, printed by the presses at The Vermilion News print shop – and a great deal of fun (at least for me) to browse.
When the first annual was published a distinguished looking gentleman named William H. Mitchell was Vermilion’s school Superintendent (pictured on the upper left). Mr. Mitchell was born in Indiana in 1853. The family later moved to the Village of Gallipolis in southeast Ohio. His father, born in Massachusetts, was a minister in that town. By 1880 William had married his wife Clara and was working as a merchant in Gallipolis while he earned a college degree. By 1900 he had earned a degree in education and had taken the position of Superintendent of schools in New London, Ohio. Ten years later he was employed as school Superintendent in Vermilion.
Following his retirement in 1927 the Mitchell’s enjoyed taking automobile trips around the U.S. Their intention was to visit all (then) 48 states. After Mrs. Mitchell’s death in 1930 William continued to pursue that goal along with his daughter Caroline (Haines) or his son Walter. When he died at his Vermilion home – at 2 o’clock in the morning on his 84th birthday – he had visited every state in the continental states. This was, by the way, no mean feat in those days.
His funeral was held at his Vermilion home on a Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. Reverend Earl T. English officiated. And he was buried next to his wife at Maple Grove Cemetery. His contributions to the community of Vermilion, Ohio were substantial. Many of Vermilion’s most prominent citizens were educated in the system he guided during the early years of the 20th century.
The person who followed in Mr. Mitchell’s footsteps at the school was a personable chap named George Raymond Snyder (pictured lower right). My sister, Nancy Alice Emery, remembers him quite vividly. Some time ago she told me, “I remember Mr. Snyder very well, had him for some classes. He always told us in class if we misbehaved he would bring in his helper in his office (Margarite Ball) and we all were afraid of her. Snyder lived on that short street between Perry and Washington, on the side by the water. He then built a new home over in the lagoons, before leaving for Toledo to teach (if I remember it right) at the college. He was too smart to teach in VHS, but was replaced by Mr. Dewitt, a very good teacher; and Mr. DeWitt was replaced by Gebhardt; another very good teacher. Snyders had one child (Marty / Martha Snyder Rose). She is listed as a teacher in Florida. She and her friend Virgina Fischer Ohler would give us guys that played down at Wakefield’s Beach and swim at the Piers problems (but we all had a good time)”.
She went on to say that another old Vermilionite, Dale “Tulip” Wendell once told her, “My wife and I were invited up to Toledo to see Jim Stone and wife (Old Neighbors) and while there they took us over to see Snyders. He remembered me when I walked in as "Tulip" (Never will lose that name)…”
Mr. Snyder was born in 1893 in Dayton, Ohio. His father, Ethan, was a Dayton policeman. He received his initial college education at Ohio’s Heidelberg College in Tiffin. In 1939 he left Vermilion to pursue a doctorate in education at Ohio State University. By 1951 Dr. George Raymond Snyder was the director of University School at Bowling Green State University. His wife, Marvell, by that time had acquired some acclaim of her own throughout Ohio as milliner / hat-maker. For a number of years she ran a little shop in Bowling Green called the “Hat Box”. She also entertained many women’s groups with a program she conducted called “Fun With Hats”. Eventually the couple retired to Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Snyder passed along in February of 1986. He was 92. Marvell followed in 2000. She was 105.
About the time of Mr. Snyder’s departure from our local school system WW2 was on the horizon. And when the war began the school annual “Hi-Times” disappeared (due to war rationing) and it never reappeared. After the war it became the “Log” and it was eventually transformed into a larger hardbound glossy publication. These annuals are still fun to browse. And I think they always will be. Nonetheless, I still like the books of yesteryear much better. But don’t ask me the reason. I just might tell you.
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.
The first permanent settler in Perkins township was Thomas James. He located here in 1810, in the south part of the fourth section. James was of Irish birth, and came to America a few years prior to the above date, first settling in New England. He purchased his land in Connecticut, and it proved to be a valuable tract. He was accompanied by John Beatty, Esq., another Irishman, whose object was to explore the country, with a view to purchase. They traveled through the State of Pennsylvania, in which State resided James Forsyth, a brother-in law of Beatty, who came with them to Ohio, locating in Oxford township. This company left Northumberland, Pennsylvania. June 3, of the above year. They passed through Pittsburgh, and thence to Cleveland, where they arrived on July 3. Of this, the beautiful "Forest City," Mr. Forsyth says: "The town was small, there was not a good looking house in it, and but few of any kind." The same historian continues: "After some trouble, we crossed the Cuyahoga river. John Beatty remained behind to settle the ferriage, and in crossing in a canoe, he fell out and narrowly escaped being drowned." They crossed the mouth of the Vermillion and Huron rivers on sand bars. While Forsyth and Beatty went with Wright and Ruggles, prospecting, James went directly to the lands he had already purchased, which he reached the same month (July). Perhaps a month previous, two or three families had squatted on lands in the same neighborhood. They were but transient settlers, however.
In 1813, four families, refugees from Canada, which they left rather than take the oath of allegiance, came into the township and settled near each other in the northeast corner. Their names were: Christian Winters, John Freese, Stephen Russell and David Cummings. They all lived many years in the township, some of them during life.
The largest colony of settlers came in the fall of 1815. John Beatty, before mentioned, made a large investment of lauds in Perkins township, including nearly all of section one, and removed thereto this year. He was accompanied by the following persons and their respective families: Julius House, Joseph and Jesse Taylor, Eleizur Bell, Plinney Johnson, Harvey Covell, Roswell Eddy, Roswell Hubbard, Holsey Aikens, and Richard P. Christopher. Two single men, William Robinson and William R. Bebee, were also of the company. Eleazur Lockwood, who came from Canada, some years before, and resided elsewhere, settled in Perkins the same year. Then settlers came from Connecticut, mostly from Hartford county. They came the whole distance by ox teams, fourteen in number. All who came with Beatty, as well as Eleizur Lockwood, purchased land of him and located in the same neighborhood, on or near the sand ridge before described as passing through sections one and four. Beatty located near the east line of the township. Of the settlers Bell and Robinson died at an early day.
Soon after 1815 the following families located in the same neighborhood: Asa Wickham, Thomas Irvine, Hope Tucker, William Dickinson, Roger and Alva Fox, and others.
In the spring of 1817 Watkins came on with his family, and located on land he bought of Mr. Beatty in section four. The fall following, Justus Allen arrived with a large family, and built a hewed log house. The next year he built a frame barn, and opened a hotel. He died in the fall of 182O.
In the spring of 1819, Rogers came from the State of New York with his family, and moved into a log house built by Mr. Sprague, near the sulphur spring. Himself [sic] and four children died the subsequent fall.
In 1821, Hubbard Hollister and Lodowick Brown arrived in the township, and Captain H. W. Bush came in 1825 or '26. But the principal settlement in the township for many years was that on the ridge before mentioned; and, in honor of one of the most prominent citizens, it obtained the name of “House's settlement." Because of the origin of the people, it was called the "Yankee settlement;" and yet again, owing to the abundant production of an indispensable vegetable, it was sometimes designated as the "potato settlement."
The first birth in the township, or, at least, among these settlers, was that of Christopher, son of Plinney Johnson, in 1817, and the second was a daughter of Harvey Covell, afterward the wife of Dwight Buck.
The first marriage was that of William Robinson to Rhoda House, and it occurred in 1817. Both are long since deceased. The next was that of William R. Bebee and Miss Minerva Bell.
The first post office established within the township was in 1817. John Beatty, Esq., was postmaster, and distributed the mails from his log cabin. A dry goods box, with some shelves added, was used to contain the letters and papers. It is said he never reported to the department, and declined to make any returns. He was removed and the office discontinued in perhaps 1818 or '19. The inhabitants received their mail at Sandusky. An office was established on the Bloomingville road, with Ralph Borders, postmaster. This was discontinued many years since.
The first dry goods store first opened in this township was by John Beatty at his dwelling at a very early period; and second by Julius House, Esq., who opened a very limited assortment near his residence at the corners. Neither of these were continued very long.
The first public road laid out and opened through the township, was doubtless that to Bloomingville, and on to Fremont; second, from Milan to Sandusky, and third, from Bloomingville to Sandusky.
The only mill erected in the township was a sawmill on Pike creek, a few rods below the present crossing of the road from Sandusky to House's settle…
MORE CROW: I mentioned this piece in the opening lines of “VV” this week. Local artist Frank Homitz brought it to me at the museum and allowed me to scan it. Frank and his spouse, Mary Lynn, have the propensity to collect some extremely nice artifacts from old Vermilion. And this, of course, is one.
What strikes me about this particular piece – in conjunction with the golf ball that appeared a few weeks back - is that Crow (Crow Lumber Company) did a good deal of what I would call “trinket” advertising. I don’t believe they really had to, for they filled a great need for any growing community during the developmental years of the 20th century. I just believe that Mr. Crow liked to hand out little favors.
I’m glad he did.
When a guy's printer type began to grow faint, he called a local repair shop where a friendly man informed him that the printer probably needed only to be cleaned. Because the store charged $50 for such cleanings, he told him he might be better off reading the printer's manual and trying the job himself.
Pleasantly surprised by his candor, he asked, "Does your boss know that you discourage business?"
"Actually, it's my boss's idea," the employee replied sheepishly. "We usually make more money on repairs if we let people try to fix things themselves first."
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'".
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.
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