Vermilion Ohio, A Good Place to Live
SHOPTALK: PROLOGUE: Note that these things were written a number of years ago. Consequently, things / businesses have changed since that time. I’m not going to amend those parts of the essay because I want a record of those changes to stand. It’s interesting to see just how quickly such things change. Part of this essay is about the Lakehouse – the Maud-Elton – Hotel and part is abut the Fischer building. Once upon a time the hotel occupied the southeast corner of Liberty and Division/Main streets [pictured]. It was later moved down the hill to where it sits today – on the southwest corner of Liberty and Exchange streets.
The Maudelton Hotel was originally constructed on level ground when it stood on the corner of Main and Division streets. (Photograph) But when it was moved down the hill the basement was built into the hill to level the building. Thus, a frontal view shows one a three-story hotel and a side view shows a four-story building (in old pictures).
Now, stepping back to last week's story for a moment: The tallest of our baby-faced gang jumped up and grabbed the bottom of the hotel's fire escape, and we gingerly scampered up the ladder to the first entrance, and quietly as possible forced the door open. It wasn't exactly precision cat burglary. It was also daylight. We all had to be home by dinnertime. That would be 6 o'clock on a summer evening. So we had a window of about 30 minutes to get in, look around, and get out. As I mentioned before, the floors creaked and we whispered because we thought the people in the bar below might hear us and come running.
Looking back I sincerely doubt that anyone in their right mind would have "come running". Not in that building. The possibility of crashing through three stories of rotting floor seemed rather distasteful. Years of disuse had taken their toll.
And through the dust we crept half expecting to be met by a ghost in the dim hallway of the old hotel. We came to the first door of the nearest room and pushed it open.
I am still astounded by meeting the past on its own terms outside of a museum. This was real. Nothing fancy; Just old, left the way it was the day someone closed the door, and went home. There was a big brass bed with a straw mattress (remember that old poem: sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite? There was an old dresser with a porcelain water pitcher and bowl on it. And a great deal of dust. Or did I mention that?
What a let-down. Getting in and out of the place without being caught was real thrilling. But the place itself (?) it was an old decrepit hotel. A bunch of dusty rooms with brass beds, old water pitchers, and brass numbers on the door.
Now back to the Fischer Building [pictured as it was being constructed]. It abuts the Maudelton. In fact, there are a set of stairs which run from the front porch, of the hotel to an apartment on the top floor of the building above part of the Encore Resale Shoppe. After the building was built in 1915 Elton Fischer and Albert (Waddy) Stone co-¬owned a new Buick Agency on the lower floor. That didn't last too long, and the building was split into several different business spaces.
When I was a boy the A&P Market occupied the largest portion of the building on the southwest front of the structure (which is now preparing for a new business), and the rest of the structure was occupied by Ann's Lunch, Ed Meese Realty, Ding and Doc Jeffrey's Park Market, Wilmer Jump's (now the Encore Shoppe) Variety Store, and the Vermilion Post Office.
Upstairs there was also a variety of things. What I remember best was the main part where the Vermilion Court was located. It had been a roller-rink for a time. It had, and has, nice hardwood floors. I later attended Kindergarten there. Ginny Osberg was the director. What a plethora of memories. The day (in the early 1950's) when the Vermilion fisheries burned to the ground along the river I watched with wide, wide eyes as the industry went up in smoke from an upstairs window of that building. It was the beginning of the end of one era in Vermilion history.
THE GRAND OPENING: This advertisement appeared in the July 8, 1915 editon of The Vermilion News. While there is some documentation surrounding the building of this "fireproof garage" there are some questions that probably can never be adequately answered about this entire enterprise.
When Elton Fischer began selling automobiles he was using rooms temporarily provided in the lumber company on the north side of Liberty Ave (1914). Some mention was then made about the construction of a garage for this purpose - but there was no mention about building what eventually became known as the Fischer block building. It almost appears to have been an after-thought.
The dealership/garage moved into the building before it was completed. Initial articles surrounding the construction of a garage specifically note that it was to be a "one-story" structure. As it turned out that building was likely one of the most unusual buildings in the area for a town the size of Vermilion.
One of the most unusual things about the building is the way in which the 2nd floor was constructed. There are zero roof support pillars on the upper story - which means that it was/is one large room. I'm not precisely sure as to the reason this was so. While documents show that it was then used as a dance-hall and then a roller-skating rink (the floors are all hardwood), I am under the very distinct impression that neither Elton nor his father actually had any idea as to what they intended to do with the area prior to construction.
Whatever the case, this building is one of the most unusual (and perhaps valuable) buildings in the city. I don't believe many folks understand its significance.
Historically,
THE ART OF ELEANOR FAITH BLANCHAT:
Eleanor Blanchat-Ryan was born in Vermilion on 28 September 1910. She was one of two girls born to George and Josephine Blanchat. The Blanchats owned and operated Vermilion’s amusement park known as Crystal Beach on the eastern edge of the village. She had an older sister named Thelma Blanchat-Calvert (b.1906). Eleanor was married to a fella named James Ryan.
The poster accompanying this essay is an example of Eleanor’s artworks. I don’t really know how much she did, but everything I’ve ever see was extremely nice. The Vermilion High School year book artwork c.1924 was done by her.
Given what I see here and in the annual books I would think that there may be more of her work out there somewhere for us to find.
SONGS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME: My father was an immigrant. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in December of 1898 his parents migrated to Rockingham, Vermont around that same year, later moving to Portland, Maine. His father, my grandfather, Frederick was born in Stoke Poges, Slough, England on 2 September 1870. My grandmother, Helen (Lynch), was born in Nova Scotia in 1876. My grandparents became full-fledged American citizens in 1918. By that time (in 1917) dad had joined the Army and was headed off to France to fight for America in “The War to End All Wars”.
Returning home after the war he worked as a printer in Portland for a time. But feeling adventurous after his war experiences he hopped on a train and headed west in search of his fortune. On his way to that fortune he stopped off in Vermilion to see his uncle who was, at the time, the minister of the First Congregational Church (Rev. Howard Lynch). Fate, God, or both, intervened when he discovered that behind the church sat a print shop owned by Pearl and Bessie Roscoe. And to make a long story short, he hired on at the shop, eventually married (my Mom) the boss’s daughter, Ella (1927), and never left town. His fortune was found.
Pop was forty-six years old when my eyes opened for the first time on this planet. I was the last of eight children born in our family. The consequence was that by the time I came around dad had pretty much done all one could do, or wanted to do, with kids – physically. So all my ballplaying, fishing and camping activities were done with some of my older family members or my friends. But that didn’t mean that he neglected me by any means. What I got was the best: his tales from “Down East”. And they are tales I’ve never forgotten.
I don’t know if many folks have ever noticed, but a good many of great American storytellers abide on the East Coast – especially in Maine. Stephen King is a fine example of a “Down-East” storyteller. And while Dad’s stories were not as detailed nor, thankfully, as frightening as King’s I found them, and still find them, extremely entertaining.
One that springs immediately to mind is a tale he told me about the death of a great aunt. He said she was an “Old Maid” – an older lady who’d never married, lived alone with 4 million cats and always dressed in black. In short, she was the epitome of “old maidenhood”.
As the old gal lay in her death bed the entire family gathered together, sadly awaiting the Grim Reaper’s visit. In fact, there were so many family members there to witness the event that they had to wait outside the house and take turns to say their goodbyes. When it was my Pa’s turn, he sheepishly entered her room with his parents and stood nervously quiet at her bedside. It was a tearful affair. As they were about to turn and leave the room to allow other somber family members to take their place his aged aunt suddenly sat straight up in her bed, opened wide her eyes and proclaimed loudly and clearly, “G--d--- I’m dead!”, and promptly fell back to her pillow. And so, she was.
Another story was about another aunt – also an elderly lady – who was so pleased when water and sewer came to her neighborhood in Maine that she decided to turn a closet in her home into, to politely put it, a comfort station. It would be such an improvement from the privy outside her backdoor. However, she insisted that the workers installing the toilet also put a window in the closet door. It seems that the new bathroom was directly across from the front door of her home and she wanted to be able to see when persons came to the door for a visit. And so, she did.
And then there was the story of his uncle, Albert, who had a big farm in Alberta, Canada. One exceptionally hard winter his wife died. Due to the fact that the ground was frozen solid, and the weather continued to be so bad, he was unable to take her into town for a proper burial. Left with few options he had no choice but to wait until spring for her interment. To assuage the situation, he thought to put her up in his smoke house till then.
Unfortunately, ol’ uncle Albert’s fate wasn’t much better than his smoked spouse. Just before WW2 broke out, he decided to sell the farm and see the world. Sailing to Europe. He just happened to be enjoying the landscape in Germany when war was declared. He was never seen nor heard from again. Methinks he either leaned to speak German and was assimilated into the populace – or perhaps joined his late wife in the Great Beyond.
So, it may be that my Dad didn’t take me fishing or play ball with me. But he gave me numerous curious Down-East tales of his yesteryear that, however absurd or morbid they be, still make me laugh. Perhaps that was always the point.
YESTERYEAR'S NEWS: The following clips are dictated transcriptions from past issues of The Vermilion News. I think you will find them both interesting and fun...
Hon. Charles S. Reed, for more than 12 years one of the judges of the first subdivision of the Fourth Common Pleas Judicial District forwarded his resignation to Gov. Harmon at Columbus. September 18 – two weeks from next Monday – he will become identified with the law firm of Russell & Eichelberger, one of the most prominent in Cleveland, which firm will be reorganized under the name of Reed, Russell & Eichelberger, Judge Reed becoming the first member. – Reg.
Judge Scott B. Stahl, Port Clinton has been appointed by Gov. Harmon to succeed Judge Charles S. Reed who resigned this week. Judge Stahl has long been a prominent attorney of Ottawa County. He will probably move to Sandusky.
The Village council held its regular meeting Wednesday evening with all members present accepting Mr. Wahl.
After the reading and approval of the minutes of the last meeting several committees reported crossings completed. The question of what was to be done with the dirt and stone which was to be removed from the cut on water Street was brought up. Several parties have been asked to bid on the removal of this dirt by the railroad company and the understanding of the Council was that the village was to have this met material to be loaded on wagons by the railroad workmen. Mr. Handy was called up over the phone and the misunderstanding straightened out. Street Commissioner Knott was told to have teams ready to commence removal of material Thursday morning. It is proposed to use the crushed stone on the streets especially on Liberty Street.
Workman have commenced on the curb and gutter improvements on Liberty and Division streets. The street commissioner was instructed to ask the property owners if they had used for the old curbing and to remove them at once as soon as torn up by the contractors if they had, if not he should remove them.
The sidewalk committee reported several walks needed repairs. It was also reported to raise the walk on north side of Erie Street to proper grade.
Completion of walk on the north side of Liberty from Division to Exchange streets but had not been viewed and measured by committee.
Mr. Tischer was asked regarding manholes in Tischer – Driscoll sewer. He said he would put one in one. It was decided that South Street was a place for it.
>The comfort or toilet station was reported practically finished.
Several other matters were discussed, after which bills were ordered paid and council adjourned.
Those having charge of the Buckeye Band Association Meet wish through the columns of the NEWS to thank ALL who in any way aided in the preparation for the entertainment of the Visitors at the convention.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wenzie, a son, Monday, Sept. 4, 1911.
Miss Maud Nieding is attending the Ohio Librarians Convention at Cedar Point this week, during the time the public library will be closed.
As the result of a complaint made by A. Gordon, 311 Thirteenth street, Lorain, against Warren Walker, rural carrier No. 1, Walker was suspended by postmaster A. Baker, Thursday, pending an investigation. While in the vicinity of Brownhelm, Thursday the two wagons collided and a fight ensued. Walker is substitute carrier taking the place of William Hall who is having a 15 day vacation.
John Bellar who is employed at the Moebius blacksmith shop, fell and broke his wrist into ribs Friday morning. He was going upstairs after some supplies and the heel of the shoe caught on a nail which threw him.
Mrs. Catherine Peterson, who died at the home of her brother, Mayor E. Stiwald, on Sunday morning was one of Amherst’s oldest residence, being 92 years of age. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon. Rev. P. E. Harding officiated.
While engaged in doing her washing last week, Mrs. Frank Lassen was severely burned when the boiler in which she placed hot water, slipped from the stove, burning her feet and limbs. Medical assistance was summoned and her injuries dressed. Mrs. Lassen was married only a few months ago and was formerly Miss Florence Cheevers.
Axtel was well represented at the band tournament Wednesday.
Mr. John Kropf has installed a telephone in his home this week.
Mrs. E. Aubill was taken to the hospital at Lorain Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wasem entertained an auto party from Shiloh over Sunday.
A number of Axtelites took in the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” show at Vermilion Friday night.
The Township schools opened Tuesday. The High School will open on Sept. 11th.
The Ladies Society of the Cong’l church will meet on the church lawn Thursday afternoon will have a picnic supper.
Several of the friends of Tracy Shattuck were invited to his home Saturday evening for a marshmallow roast and to meet his cousin, Wilford Barterfeld of Lorain, who was his guest over Sunday. A very delightful time was enjoyed.
Bellevue’s handsome new $30,000 school building on West Main St. was open to the public Monday.
The building is of brick and concrete and is fireproof.
Supt. Alleshouse of Huron will succeed Supt. J. J. Hauser of Berlin as county school examiner. The appointment was made Thursday by probate Judge Sloan. Supt. Hauser has held this position for 12 years.
Quite a party of Vermilionites attended the ballgame at Cleveland Labor Day.
The W. R. C. will give an ice cream social at the home of Jacob Baumhardt, Saturday evening. All are cordially invited.
C. Roscoe spending the day at Walbridge Park, Toledo, attending a reunion of his comrades in the war of ‘61.
[NOTE: This was my g-grandfather. He was always very active in G.A.R. events.]
Mrs. Henry Leidheiser is agent for electric combs and brushes. Anyone wishing can get it by calling her at her home on Main Street.
No doubt a number of the young people will begin a college or business course this fall. The NEWS would be glad to have a list of all who expect to go, but it is impossible for us to get all without your aid. If you have a boy or girl starting out please tell us. Everyone is interested in the young people and their success.
George P. Wahl and family have returned from Linwood Park for the winter.
Albert Hart has accepted a position as pharmacist at the Gem pharmacy. Mr. Hart has been employed in Elyria for the past year.
[NOTE: Mr. Hart was later responsible for establishing Vermilion’s well-known Hart’s Corner Drugstore on the corner of Liberty and Main streets.]
Miss Lottie Goodell leaves Friday for home in Berea Ky, after a very pleasant visit among Vermilion friends.
[NOTE: Miss Lottie was, essentially, a missionary who worked with poor families in the hills of Kentucky. She was the granddaughter of Rev. Jotham Goodell, the minister who dedicated Vermilion’s first (the Congregational) church. Her mother was a Pelton.]
Geo. Wittmer has purchased the Wendt property on State Street.
Meet your friends at the Erie County fair next week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
C. A. Trinter and family moved into their new home on Grand St., Monday.
[NOTE: The family moved from a home on Exchange street. At the time Mr. Trinter owned the general store on the southwest corner of Liberty and Main streets. Earlier in the years he had bought out his partner – a guy named Unser.]
Dr. and Mrs. Emil J. Heinig and son are spending a few weeks with relatives at Millersburg, O., While the doctor is convalescing.
James Stone expects to leave Sunday evening for a vacation trip of the Lakes after which he will enter the school of pharmacy at Cleveland.
Mrs. Lewis Englebry entered Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland Tuesday. At last report she was getting on where she underwent an operation nicely and her many friends hope for a speedy recovery.
Thomas H. Bottomley has resigned his position as pharmacist at the Red Cross pharmacy accepted a similar position with the Standard Drug Co. of Cleveland. He assumes his new duties Monday.
A force of men commenced work on the curb and gutter on Liberty and Division streets, this week and the work will be rushed. This is a much-needed improvement and it is too bad that a portion of this cannot be paved also.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. John Nuhn a daughter, Wednesday, Aug. 30, ‘11.
Erie County fair opens Tuesday at Sandusky. Aeroplane flights daily, races and various other attractions. September 12-15 inclusive.
Mr. James Cuddeback took a party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Englebry and son Mr. and Mrs. Levengood to Ragersville Saturday in this Elmore car. They returned Monday by the way of Massillon report a most enjoyable trip, not marred by a single mishap. Some long steep hills were encountered and climbed without difficulty.
Fifteen million flies have been destroyed by the flyswatters, but you wouldn’t think it.
Aviator Atwood says it is dangerous for one to sneeze when operating an aeroplane. Truly, aviation is nothing to be sneezed at.
A French scientist says there never was such a person as Julius Caesar. Next thing somebody will bob up and say there never was a Christopher Columbus. Then we will have to move.
The work of cleaning the streets is progressing nicely and is gratifying to the citizens.
The public schools of the village opened on Tuesday with a good attendance and there is every indication for a good school year.
Mr. Henry William Williard who was stricken with paralysis last Sunday morning, died Wednesday morning. Announcement of funeral and obituary later.
Workman are busy repairing and redecorating the M.E. Church. The woodwork outside has been given three coats of paint and the inside is being frescoed and grained and a new carpet covering the entire church will cover the floors.
The primary held on Tuesday was very poorly attended. There were less than 50 votes in the village and township together. There was considerable confusion marking tickets.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Marek Merriam Bates, a son, Thursday morning.
Miss Bessie Pierce has resigned her position at Florence as teacher accepted one at Kelly’s island.
Jacob Stickreth was born in Huron Ohio, the 18th day of August 1872, and was baptized in early infancy by Rev. Schwichtenberg pastor of Ceylon Reformed Church. At the age of two years, he, with his parents moved on a farm in Henrietta Township, attending the Reformed church. Two years later they moved to Wakeman spending 12 years at this place. His next and last place of residence was one mile north of Florence, where he spent the greater part of his life until his untimely death, Tuesday morning, June 27, 1911. Besides his two brothers he had two sisters. Father died Oct. 12, 1904. A brother died also in infancy. His mother, one brother and two sisters survive him to mourn his sudden departure, he attained the age of 38 years, 10 months and 9 days. He was an attendant at the Methodist and Congregational churches at Florence. His mother’s testimony is, he was a good and honest son, diligent in labor, prosperous and acquainted with prayer. May God comfort the mourners.
Funeral obsequies took place Friday, June 30, from the house at 1 o’clock, and at 2 o’clock from the Congregational church at Florence conducted by Rev. Hilgeman. The choir rendered comforting selections.
“Have we trials and temptations
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
Take it to the Lord in prayer.”
Elizabeth McLaughlin need Kurtz was born Aug. 12Th, 1883 at Gettersdorf, Circuit of Hersfeld, Electorate Hessia Germany. In early infancy she was consecrated to the Lord in baptism. Already in her second year she lost her mother. Seven years of age in 1890 she came to America in company of her widowed father, five sisters and brothers. They located near Ceylon in which vicinity she has always lived with the exception of a short time at Lorain. She was married to John McLaughlin Nov. 28, 1907. Nov. 1, 1909 the home was blessed with a son. While in Lorain she became a victim of the “white plague” which prayer and medical science could not stay. She died Aug. 26, 5:40 5 P. M. Standard, conscious to the end. She leaves her sorrow-stricken husband, her two-year-old son two brothers and three sisters. Her age was 28 years, and 14 days. The funeral took place Aug. 29 at 1 o’clock from the house and 2 o’clock from the Congregational church at Ceylon according to her wish, Rev. H. Hilgeman officiating. A large gathering attended many floral tributes lay upon her casket. Interment at Peak Cemetery. God moves in a mysterious way, but the will of the Lord be done.
[NOTE: The “white plague” was tuberculosis.]
DeGraff Tyler is making preparations to attend the Agricultural College at Columbus.
Miss Lizzie Opperman has resigned her position at the post office and been succeeded by Miss Ethel Kilpatrick.
…Wickham & Wildman, of Norwalk, but during these years his time was in part occupied in teaching school. In August, 1873, at Elyria, Lorain county, he was admitted to the bar, and in the fall of the same year was elected prosecuting attorney of the county of Medina, but before the expiration of his term of office he resigned and came to Sandusky City. Here he formed a law partnership with W. W. Bowen, esq., with whom he was associated about two years, after which he became the junior partner of the firm of Taylor, Phinney & King. Three years later the firm of King & Sloane was formed, and continued five years. After practicing alone for one year, Mr. King became one of the firm of Colver, Schenkel & King. Mr. Schenkel died in 1886, and the firm then became Colver & King.
Charles H. Cramer was born in Seneca county, O. He attended school at Whitehall, in that county, and afterwards entered the college at Tiffin for one year, but did not graduate. He was admitted to practice at Mansfield, O., and became a resident of Sandusky in 1881, in which city he has since resided and practiced the law.
Walter W. Bowen was born at Akron, in this State, in September, 1849. He was educated at Oberlin College and the Baldwin University; read law in the office of Messrs Walker & Bailey, of Norwalk, and was admitted to the bar at Elyria, Lorain county, in 1873. The next year, 1874, he came to practice in Sandusky.
In 1876 Mr. Bowen was elected as prosecuting attorney of Erie county, and filled that office two years; and again, from July, 1880, to January, 1881, he held the same position. In the last-named year he was elected to the office of city solicitor, and reelected at the expiration of his first term.
Grayson Mills was born in the city of Sandusky. He was educated at Kenyon College, at Gambier, and graduated from the Columbia Law College, of New York City, in the year 1876. For about two years he practiced at Cincinnati, but came to Sandusky in 1878.
From 1881 to 1883 Mr. Mills filled the office of prosecuting attorney of this county, and since that time has been engaged in the general practice.
John P. Stein. Mr. Stein was born in Milan township of this county, in the year 1858. He was educated at the Milan Normal School, and came to Sandusky and entered the office of J. W. Tilly, as a student at law. This course was supplemented by further study in the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, after which, in 1881, he was admitted to the bar. Two years later he was elected justice of the peace, the duties of which office were performed in connection with his professional work.
George C. Beis, the present city solicitor, of Sandusky, was born in Lucas county on the 12th of September, 1861. His early education was received in the common and high schools of his native county, after which he became a law student in the office of Scribner, Hurd & Scribner, of Toledo. He after…
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THE FIRST LINOTYPE: Pictured is the first Linotype machine purchased by the owners of the Vermilion News print shop back in 1916. It is a type-setting machine and it, as the name suggests, makes one line of type at a time. These machines revolutionized the printing business and were partially responsible for a dramatic increase in literacy throughout the world. The machine was developed in 1884 by a German watchmaker named Ottmar Merganthaler.
This machine, as well as another, can be seen in the printshop portion of the Vermilion History Museum. As the list below shows the Vermilion museum is only one of six museums in the U.S. and twenty-one in the world with a Linotype machine. In fact, our Vermilion museum has two of them.
It is said that when Thomas Edison witnessed the machine in action in New York he called it “The 8th Wonder of the World.” Setting type by hand may very well have been a labor of love to some but it was still labor. Next to the invention of the printing press no invention has likely done more to revolutionize human thought than that of the Linotype.
A doctor told Mrs. Stone to give her husband one pill a day and one drink of whiskey to improve his stamina.
A month later, when Mrs. Stone came in for another visit, the doctor asked, "How are we doing with the pill and the whiskey?"
Mrs. Stone answered, "Well, he's a little behind with the pills, but he's about six months ahead with the whiskey."
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, "Grandma's 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 “Tripping: A Writer’s Journeys.” Signed copies of her new book can be purchased for $15.00 at the Southside Sentinel office or by mail by writing Rappahannock Press, Box 546, Urbanna, VA and adding $6.00 to cover mailing costs and tax. Contact:glongest@ssentinel.com.
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