Now & Then Print Shop Interior
SHOPTALK: Both computer desktops pix this week are of the NEWS print shop. The color shot is one I took recently after I’d rearranged things to make a better display of the “proof press”. I believe I’m going to use the proofer to demonstrate some of the printing. You can acquire reasonably good prints using the little press.
The BW shot is an oldie I discovered on a ratty old film negative. It’s not (as is obvious) a good photo. But I do, however, know what it is about. It’s my father (W.B. Tarrant) working on the Stonemetz newspaper press while a worker (I think it’s one of the Hoffman boys) looks on. It’s a terrible picture – but it beats having none of men running the presses way back when.
WORK’N HARD: At 70 I find myself without the knowledge or time to accomplish all that I’d like. But I suppose a lot of folks feel that way.
Nonetheless in the very near future I’m going to launch another webpage [www.vermilionohio.info]. It will hopefully be a community bulletin board. While I am very much a newspaper – ink on paper – person I am also aware of the fact that young people don’t read much on paper anymore. I’m not going to grouse about that fact right now (I may do it later), but methinks a digital bulletin board might be a good thing for our community.
I believe people might see some advantage in being able to quickly visit a single site on their computer, phone, or tablet where all (or at least nearly all) the activities taking place in town during a given week are posted.
The information will be submitted by various people and organizations (not gathered by myself) – and there will be a deadline for publication. It will only be changed once a week. I think that after people get the hang of it – it will suit their respective purposes without becoming a major deal.
Persons wishing to submit a Want Ad will likely have to pay a small fee in advance of publication. The project will, no doubt, require some tweaking before it works properly.
Onward…
THE FESTIVAL OF THE FISH: We don’t get any visitors as a residual effect of this annual festival. Festivalgoers are generally looking for some music, gaming, something to eat, and to, perhaps, come across a face of someone they’ve not seen in the last 100 years.
As a consequence I will be able to get a good deal of museum type work (writing, researching and photo developing) done on Friday and Saturday (during the festival) this weekend. And that’s OK.
Generally I don’t find most folks enthused about visiting museums at any time. It’s not what throngs of people do or want to do. And this is especially true during festivals. However…
THE HOWEVER:This Fall we’re going to present a gallery show featuring one or two hundred photographs. Some will be my grandfather’s photographs. Others will be from the museum collection. But folks will have time to get a good look at all and purchase smaller copies of those they like for a reasonable fee. Some may include a short and concise narrative / description and approximate year captured.
Stay close for more information about the show.
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MUSEUM 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. 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.
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 and memberships for the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011.
Memberships for the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are always 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.Cell:440.522.8397
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JOHN & HARVEY: I can't remember if I've used this pic in prior issues. But if I did - like Walt Whitman - I repeat myself. Aside from that it really is a nice pic.
Pictured are Vermilionites John Trinter and Harvey Krapp. Apparently they'd raised some pheasants for the Vermilion Fish and Game club. The club has been in existance for quite a long time - and I'm sure that Harvey was one of the charter members. John may have been as well.
The photo was taken the yard just north of the Delker / Trinter home on Grand Street. I don't have a year for it. But it must have been on Sunday. That's because the door to the E&R church (just across the street) is wide open. (The boys must've been playing hookie from church services.)
Both men were popular Vermilion guys.
John's wife, Betty, was the town historian and wrote several books ("They Way It Was") about the community that I keep near my desk for reference along with those of George Wakefield.
I also have a audio interview that Betty Reffner did with Harvey when he was in his 80s that I also use as a reference. That interview along with an article written by Cliff Parsons are invaluable guides to the town's past.
VHS CLASS OF ’60 SEEKS “LOST” MEMBERS: The 1960 class of Vermilion High School is planning their 55th year reunion and there are several classmates whose addresses are unknown. The reunion is planned for Sunday, September 13, 2015, beginning at 2 P.M at the Vermilion Boat Club. There will also be other meet and greet opportunities in the two days before. We want to make every effort to contact all class members and we need the help of the public to make this possible. Please look at the following list of “lost” class members and, if you know their whereabouts, please contact SANDRA YEAMANS NEIDING AT 967-4190.
Missing are: Penny Clague, Judy Eagan, James Hill, Robert Holtcamp, Billy Kay, Mavis Keener, Judy Lowery, Ray Luna, Wayne Rohrbaugh and Marjorie Sipos. – Correspondent Sandy Neiding
AN UNUSUAL PIC: This is an unusual snapshot that has more historic value than aesthetic. I don’t know the identity of the person who captured these shadows but I do know where it was taken and when.
It is a Kodacolor print taken from the southeast corner of Washington Street looking east down Ferry Street. It was made during the week of May 12 in 1952. Although it is a color print the colors had aged / faded so badly that I used a b-w print to show it here because the detail appears to be more legible without the color.
The house in the foreground (right) still exists. I have another pic of it that I acquired from Mary Lynn and Frank Homitz that was taken of the north side of the home. This house now sits behind the former Great Lakes Maritime museum on the bank of Lake Erie. It is directly behind Roth’s Gilchrist Bed and Breakfast home on Huron Street.
Melba (Gorbach) Walker explained that she purchased the house when the library (now on that site) was about to be built back in the mid-1950s and had it moved to the lakefront site. I seem to recall that the Hollosy family once lived in the house.
But to illustrate just how unreliable a person’s memory can be – for a time I was under the impression that his house was closer to Liberty Street than it actually was. Pix like this jogged my memory and set me right. Currently (2015) the Ritter Library takes up half or maybe even ¾ of the block.
The snap was taken from the yard of the home currently owned by Harry and Ardith Enlow on Washington Street. It may have been the home of Sidney “Ding” Jeffery when someone caught these shadows. Early in the 20th century it was the home of the town barber / photographer Jacob Abell. A member of Vermilion’s Naegele or Jeffery family may have actually taken the snapshot. Some of the trees therein may still be standing.
I consider this to be an historic photograph because of the changes that have taken place over that last 6 decades. In another ten years or so it may be that nobody will be around who is able to recognize the site. In that case the pic would likely end up in the trash.
Thank Heaven for persons who held on to these Kodak moments.
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...
Village council held a meeting last Friday evening to act upon the sewer question and other business that might come before it.
The matter of the Liberty street sewer was decided in this way. A survey is to be made of the lay of the land in the district enclosed by Liberty, Decatur, South, and Grand Streets with a view of draining eventually into the Liberty street sewer. Further action will be taken after this is done.
As to the Toledo street sewer, the present plan has been postponed indefinitely and now it is up to the State Board of Health. This is how it happened. Mr. Geo. Fischer was present and when told of the plan said he should object to having the sewer built along the line of the present waterway through his land until the town was surveyed by a competent engineer and plans made for a complete sewer system and new what the drainage would be in this locality. It was explained that this section had already been surveyed and blue prints made but that did not seem to answer, so the matter has been postponed as above stated.
The object of council was to have the sewer built by subscriptions of those benefitted and not to go through the more expensive process of law which will probably now be done, as when the State Board of Health is notified will have to be done. Meeting then adjourned.
Last Thursday morning the Yarrick Printery at Berlin Heights was damaged by fire to considerable extent caused by an explosion of gasoline. The cylinder press was so badly damaged that the publisher was forced to have his paper printed at Norwalk. Our sympathy brother Yarrick.
The case of C.C. Baumhart against W.A. Christian, an action for an injunction, has been settled and dismissed. The costs were assessed against the defendant for whom judgement was rendered.
[VV. Ed. Note: A very strange thing happened when I tried transcribing an additional piece for this section. My computer kept freezing up when I got to a particular part of the paragraph. I tried transcribing the passage 4 times before I gave it up. The piece related the fact that some property owners were given permission by the court to detach their properties from the village. But the computer will not allow me any ability to transcribe the passage as written. Very odd…]
At a meeting of the Board of Education Monday evening George Andrews handed in his resignation as janitor of the school building. Mr. Andrews was efficiently filled this position for about twenty years. The duties of this position have become so numerous that he has finally decided to take this action. He will continue with his other work as usual.
The Board also decided to partition off a portion of Room 4 for a recitation room and add more windows to the building when needed.
The home of J.E. Kishman up the shore was the scene of a happy gathering last Sunday. The Dickel family to the number of twenty-eight were present to participate in a reunion.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. George Dickel, Sr., of Huron, Mr. and Mrs. George Davis and family of New London, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickel and family of Ceylon, Mr. and Mrs. Heyman and family of Huron, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sherod and son, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walper and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Dickel, Mr. and Mrs. George Dickel, Jr., and family and Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Kishman and family of Vermilion and vicinity.
The dinner was one of the features not be forgotten, after which Albert Kishman brought his camera into use and photographed the group.
Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Whitmore celebrated their thirty-fourth wedding anniversary Sunday. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Whitmore and daughter, Marie, Ms. Lyle Osborn and two children of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. John Ries of Lorain; Miss Flossie Slater of Marion; and Mrs. Harriet Haven of this place. A most pleasant day was enjoyed by all.
Mrs. H.L. Minium was taken to Lake View Hospital, Lorain, last evening. She is under the treatment of Dr. Van Nuys, and it will be determined in a short time whether she must undergo another operation.
Chas. Lowry of Berlin Heights was so severely injured at the Nickel Plate Saturday that he died a few hours later. Mr. Lowry was unloading coal from the cars and wishing to change the position of one of the cars, hitched his team to it. One of the cockeyes on the tugs broke and the wippletree* struck him in the stomach. The injury was not thought to be serious at first but proved otherwise. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Z.P. Lowry and besides the father and mother leaves two sisters and three brothers to mourn his death. He was 44 years old.
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[VV. Ed. Note: WHIPPLETREE: a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling.]
The July shipments of stone from Quarry No. 6 were the largest in its history being 175,000 cubic feet, or 700 carloads.
John Denschly was seriously injured Friday while at work at No. 6 Quarry. A large chisel slipped off a bench and struck him on the head cutting a severe gash. Dr. Wiseman dressed the wound.
A. F. Mischke was probably fatally injured Saturday afternoon while driving the meat wagon of G.F. Sabiers. The horse ran away upsetting the wagon. Mr. Mischke became entangled in the lines and was dragged some distance. Several bones were broken and internal injuries sustained.
Jacob Baus received consignment of shoes recently, several boxes of which had been broken open en route and 23 pairs had been stolen.
Elyria, O. August 5 – Believing that there is a fortune in exhibiting the petrified remains of his sister, who died in 1856, A. Pember Sr. of Amherst says he will leave Monday for Glasgow to exhume the body. The petrified condition was discovered in 1868 when it was necessary to remove the body, owing to the fact that a railroad crossed the cemetery. Pember was present and says the body had turned to stone and that it took six men to handle the casket.
Pember has had offers from showmen who have head his story, but prefers to conduct the exploit himself. He is a painting contractor but has discharged his employees and closed his business affairs at Amherst.
[You just have to wonder how all that panned out. Methinks Mr. Pember may have been imbibing too much scotch when he last visited his sis.]
Mrs. August Neiding is dangerously ill at this writing.
Albert Todd made a flying trip through here in a fine automobile.
Mrs. Wm. Dean is on the sick list.
Mrs. Chas. Humphrey died at his home last Saturday. Funeral Tuesday of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Welch are happy over the arrival of a little daughter.
Dr. Gerbert has returned from a months vacation.
DIED – Thursday morning Mrs. Solomon Kriss. Funeral was held from the home Saturday, Rev. Mergler officiating.
DIED – Suddenly Mrs. Catherine Sales Friday. Funeral at Evangelical church Sunday afternoon, Rev. Rundt officiating.
DIED – In Cleveland hospital Thursday. Mrs. Augusta Gunzenhauser. Funeral held form the Evangelical Church Sunday morning. Rev. Rundt officiating.
Mrs. E. Barrett is on the sick list.
Mrs. Chas. Ocher Sr. is reported very ill.
The Berlin Heights Brick and Tile company of Berlin Heights was incorporated at Columbus Saturday by L.B. Ayres, C.A. Peake, F.L Waldron, Samuel Ayres and L.S. Van Schoton with a capital stock of $10,000.
Reports from the bedside of Mrs. F.E. Englebry are not as favorable as her friends could wish.
Save your rags. Rubbers and iron for I. Haas. He pays 1c lb. for rages, 8c for rubbers, 50c per 100 for old iron. Sell them only to me.
A.J. Giddings launched his gas boat this morning. He purchased M. Stevenson’s boat, which was partially burned recently and has rebuilt the woodwork. The hull is of steel.
Lorain businessmen will picnic at Crystal Beach, August 22.
Mrs. Hatch is gradually recovering from her serious illness of the past ten days, but she is far from well yet.
R. Kane assistant postmaster was very ill several days last week. However he is again at his post of duty.
H.L. Rice the efficient clerk at W.A. Christian’s store is compelled to lay off this week owing to an attack of the quincy [i.e. a complication of tonsillitis].
And eleven-pound baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Heidloff’s last Thursday morning, Aug. 6, 07. Hence the absence of baseball notes in our last issue. We trust the boy will grow into as good a baseball manager and correspondent as his daddy.
Wednesday is Firemen’s Day at Crystal Beach.
There will be a launching at the old Duplex Heater works Saturday if the engines arrive for the launches that have been built here during the winter. Thos. Ball has a 22 ft. launch and Mr. Black has a 26 ft. launch built for N. Scott of Huron. Both boats are neat and attractive in appearance. Mr. Ball will name his boat after the boat on which he saw service in the navy, the Maramosa.
LOST – Eagle charm finder return to NEWS office. Reward.
FOR SALE – A folding, reclining go-cart in use only a few months. Will sell cheap. Enquire at NEWS Office.
LOST – Umbrella at L.S. & M.S. Depot Wednesday evening. Finder return to depot. Reward.
3 ¼ x 4 ¼ Folding Pocket Camera, first class condition. For sale at the NEWS office.
NOTICE – All those indebted to W.E. Bailey can settle their accounts by calling at the Bank of Vermilion where Mr. Leimbach, cashier, will give them due credit on their account.
Hmmmmmm....
1917: The photograph accompanying this week’s column was a surprise find. I developed it from one of my granddad’s glass negatives several weeks ago. Not all his photographs inspire my undivided interest as much as his Vermilion “pix”. [That’s because some are family reunion shots of people I should know but don’t – taken in places I should recognize but don’t.] But this particular picture is quite unusual. It is the original pavilion containing the casino, dance hall, dining room and ice cream parlor that once stood along the lakeshore at Vermilion’s wonderful Crystal Beach Amusement Park.
Due to the fact that the place was destroyed by fire when I was just a little over 2 years old (in 1947), I’m not at all familiar with it. But given a rather elemental hand drawn map I have of the building and park, along with another photograph of the south side of the structure, it appears (at least to me) to be the east side of the building. Lake Erie would’ve been just beyond the trees to the right. [Note: An early poster for the park branded it as “The Park of a Thousand Trees – An Ideal Place for Pleasure”] It appears that numerous folks agreed with those sentiments.
The dance hall covered the entire second floor of the pavilion. There are some old hand-tinted picture postcards of the interior of the hall from that yesteryear in the collections of several local Deltiologists. It appears to have been a bright and airy place to “boogie” – day or night.
Believe it or not in 1917 the trend in popular music was jazz. Coming to New York from New Orleans it soon worked its way across the country. A thing called “The Livery Stable Blues”, recorded by the Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band, was the very first jazz single ever recorded, and possibly also the first to sell a million copies. However, the First World War definitely impacted the music scene at that time so some of what was being purchased, heard, and played was war related: “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France”; “How Ya’ Going To Keep ‘Em Down On the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”; “Till We Meet Again” etc. But whatever the case, it’s obvious that many persons also thirsted for distractions beyond the war. And a day at Crystal Beach Park - whether on the dance floor, the carousel, or watching a ball game was, as my late friend Albert “Jim” Hart might have put it, “just the ticket.”
I don’t know what all these folks were doing when these shadows were captured – but it certainly had their attentions. Because the ice cream parlor and lunch counter is directly before them it may be that they were waiting in line to purchase refreshments. Those on the upper deck appear to be “people-watching” the crowd below them. Perhaps some are calling to family members or friends in the crowd.
This photograph is not a great photograph. A great photograph would have made the site and event obvious. What it is (as previously said) is unusual. And what it does is provide an additional dimension to our knowledge of the history of Crystal Beach Park and Vermilion, Ohio. Although long gone the park will always have a special place in local history books as well as the hearts of the millions of souls who passed through the park and our town.
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 township was named November 9, 1808, by Philip B. Bradley, of Ridgefield; Taylor Sherman, of Norwalk; Isaac Mills, of New Haven: William Eldridge, of New London; Jabez Fitch, of Greenwich; Ebenezer Jesup, Jr., of Fairfield; Guy Richards, of New London, and Ebenezer Avery, Jr., of Groton, all in the State of Connecticut, who met as the board of directors of "the proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie, called the Sufferers" Land," at the court house in New Haven, Connecticut. Among the business transacted that day, a resolution was passed naming all the townships in the Fire-lands. In and by that resolution, the peninsula north of Sandusky and the island in the Bay of Sandusky, was named Danbury, in honor of the town of Danbury, Connecticut, which was a sufferer by fire and devastation during the incursion of the British, in July, 1799.
Danbury was not organized as a township until some years after the war of 1812. The tract of land known as the peninsula was owned at an early day, by Hon. Zalmon Wildman and E. W. Bull. It originally embraced the broad strip of land situated on the north of Sandusky Bay to the west of its outlet, and was bounded on the east, north and west by Lake Erie, and was connected to the main land by a narrow neck on the west near the Portage river. The western boundary of the Fire-lands cut off. A narrow strip of land on the west side of the township, though as the township is now organized, the western line is that of the Fire-lands survey. The original township embraced about seven and one-half miles, extending from Marblehead west, and a width of some six miles, giving an area of a little less than thirty square miles.
The tract of land containing some six hundred acres, and situated west of the harbor, and north of the old Portage river bed, was organized as a township, with the name of Catawba Island, on the developing grape culture at a later date. It is connected to the main land by a bridge, which stretches over the west harbor.
The eastern portion of the township of Danbury is underlain by a strata of limestone rock, filled with fossils. Over several hundred acres in the center of the east part of the peninsula, the limestone rock is entirely uncovered, or at best covered with a scant soil, which produces very little vegetation. With this exception the soil is very productive. There are deep grooves cut in this limestone formation, in some places wide enough to allow of a wagon being driven through them. The gullies were made by the wearing of heavy masses of ice glaciers, in an age of which man can only conceive, but give no history. This limestone is constantly undergoing changes, from the effects of frost and the unceasing action of the waves on the shore of the lake.
There are several mounds of earthwork and stones on the peninsula, the most notable of which is situated on the northwest side of Catawba island, in the original tract named Danbury, but just without the boundary of the Fire-lands. The largest of these is on a bold promontory, connected by a narrow neck of land to the island. On the summit of this rocky elevation, near the edge of the promontory, stands the ruins of a circular mound of smallish stone, which has the appearance of being thrown together loosely, as no masonry is perceptible. It is about sixty-five feet through the base, and fifteen feet high. In the center was a cone, some thirty feet in diameter. Between this cone and the wall is the appearance of a walk some twelve feet wide, and extending from the entrance on the east entirely around the cone. Old settlers say that when first discovered, there was another walk around the cone, and above the one now seen, and that the top was a flat surface. West of this mound, and situated on an elevated part of the rocky shore, two similar mounds of stone may be seen, but no evidences of the walks which appear on the first one. These mounds are situated near the old camp-meeting ground.
Soon after the close of the revolutionary war, a few French Canadians settled on the peninsula, obtaining subsistence, after the manner of the Indians, by hunting, trapping and fishing. During Wayne's campaign toward the Maumee, they became alarmed, and returned to the Canada shore. A portion of them afterwards returned to their homes, and purchased lands of the legal owners. Others bought lands on another section of the Peninsula. At length, most of them gathered together and formed a settlement at the mouth of All Saints' creek, where some of their descendants now live.
Epaphroditus W. Bull, of Danbury, Connecticut, in 1808, bought, of the original proprietors of the "half millions acres," that part of the peninsula situated east of Meadow brook, and including the island in the bay of Sandusky, which was for many years known as Bull's Island. It is now the property of Mr. Johnson, and is…
RAY’S LAST GILLNETTER: Several years ago Vermilionite Dawn Full donated a fair-sized model bi-plane to the museum. It now hangs above the apartment stairway among several other military artifacts from WW1, 2 and Korea. Dawn’s husband, Ray, built the plane back in the mid-1980s when he was ill. It’s really very nice.
Just before he passed on to the next life he began working on the gillnet model pictured. Like the plane – it’s a beauty. Only this model was never completed.
As you can see not all the parts for it remain. Ergo, I don’t know if we’ll be able to finish it or not. I’ve made a preliminary search for similar model kits (so it can be finished) without success. But we’ll still keep it on display. It’s really very attractive.
I was looking at a 1923 “Hi-Times” (i.e. a Vermilion School Annual) the other day and noticed that Lake Erie legend, Big Ed Lampe, had an advertisement in it that said his place (Southwest Fish) was “the home of the ark boats”. The ark boats are the gillnetters (like this one) that were enclosed. I’m thinking that Big Ed might have been the designer. (But I don’t know that as a fact.)
In any case, this is a beautiful model – finished or not.
An 18th century vagabond in England, exhausted and famished, comes on a roadside inn emblazoned with a sign carrying the name "St. George and the Dragon."
He knocks on the door, and the innkeeper's wife sticks her head out of a window above the sign. "Could ye spare some victuals?" the man asks.
The woman glances at his shabby, dirty clothes. "No," she shouts.
"Could I have a pint of ale then?" he asks.
"No, I said."
"Could I at least use your privy?"
"No," she shouts again.
"Well, might I please....?"
"What now?" the woman screeches, not allowing him to finish.
"D'ye suppose that I might have a word with George?"
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.
MARY WAKEFIELD BUXTON’S LATEST BOOK “The Private War of William Styron” 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.
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Vol.13, Issue 15 - June 20, 2015
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