Vermilion Ohio, A Good Place to Live
SHOPTALK: The Tobermory II was the first of its kind on the Great Lakes. It was commissioned to be built by the Crossley Lead and Machine Company, 16 West Fifth Street in Erie PA. for F.W. Wakefield of Vermilion Ohio. It was built in a vacant lot next to the Crossely Company in 1924. When it was finished it was 50 feet long with a 13 foot beam and weighed about 35 tons. It was launched from the foot of State Street (in Erie) into the waters of Presque Isle before a cheering crowd of 1000 spectators. And as the boat slid into the water the builders daughter, Elizabeth Crossely, christened it with these words; "I name you Tobermory II. May you bring success to the owner and to the builder."
The name “Tobermory” was derived from a town in Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula and lies at the very tip of the Peninsula in Ontario - a strip of land separating Lake Huron from Georgian Bay. It is considered to be a “paradise” by many naturalists, photographers, divers, hikers, kayakers, and leisure-seekers. The natural beauty of that place may very well explain the reason Wakefield found the name so appealing.
The Tobermory II was possibly the first power yacht on Lake Erie that was constructed entirely of galvanized sheeting. The first “Tobermory”, a Matthews, was a “woody” built in Port Clinton. It had one of the first diesel engines installed in a pleasure boat on the Great Lakes. The second Tobermory was, of course, also powered by diesel. All the detailed finishing of the craft was accomplished by Mr. Wakefield and his sons after it was brought to port in Vermilion.
The same year (1924) it was built Wakefield and his family returned to Georgian Bay on a vacation / fishing trip. The image “ghosted” in the foreground of the Desktop photo of the craft as it looks today is that of F.W. Wakefield flanked by two of his sons, Ted and Ernest, proudly displaying a good-sized Pike they had snagged while aboard their freshly finished yacht.
In time the Tobermory II, like a good many boats familiar to local sailors around Vermilion’s busy harbor, simply disappeared. Few persons asked its whereabouts - and it was all but forgotten. One of F.W.’s sons, Ted, named his trawler Tobermory. And another son (George) also gave the name to one of his sailboats. But the years passed and the memories of the 50-foot beauty began to fade. Then, one day a young man found a beautiful old yacht sunk in the water somewhere near Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. It was the Tobermory II.
In 1994 Vermilionite, George Wakefield, along with several members of his immediate family, took a ride through the locks at Sault Sainte Marie aboard a newly restored vessel called the “Gerald D. Neville”. Seventy years had gone by since the octogenarian had stood on the deck of the vessel beside his father and brothers. Seventy years of memories trailed in her wake. Only the name of the vessel had really changed. As Will Shakespeare sagely put it: “What's in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet...”
But it is said that even today when the Summer sun sets along the coast of Lake Superior if one looks very closely at an old, but stately, yacht moored near the shore you can almost make out the name “Tobermory II “ neatly printed on the sides of her bow.
TIME: I’ve been tied up during the week playing with Microsoft PowerPoint, iMovie, and Microsoft Word applications. The Word app. Has cost me a good deal of time and I’m not certain why. It just quit.
I would guesstimate that over the last 8 days that I’ve spent around 3 hours on the phone with Microsoft techs trying to address the problem. The app (as one might suspect) is crucial to the things I do almost every day.
Every time I thought the problem was resolved – it was not. So to the site; try to follow suggestions there; and finally to the phone where I am connected with knowledgeable techs to whom English is a second language.
I hate to be rude, but when I must repeatedly ask someone what they have said to me I feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, I am now able to empathize with hard-of-hearing folks. (Sorry.) But I needed to try to understand what the techs were doing. I allowed them to take-over my computer to address the problem.
All were very polite and capable.
If I understand it correctly, some of the templates in the app were corrupted, resulting in the corruption of the entire app. It has, I gather, something to do with Apple computer apps. But I still don’t understand.
What do know is that I was robbed of time because the app would not work. I’ve been using Microsoft word for many years, and it was not until two weeks ago when I began to have problems.
I hope it’s done. On the other hand, I also hope that the pandemic that surrounds us would also be done. But…
Historically,
FIVE LIONS 1955: I don’t know who all these guys are. I know Meckler and Naegele; and I recognize the other faces, but the names they belong to now escape me. I’m also unfamiliar with the site of the snap.
I am certain, however, that some kind soul can fill-in all the spaces of my memory bank.
HELD OVER: Last week I added a video of meself practicing a speech I made on Veteran's Day in Exchange Park eleven years ago. My real intention in using the video here is selfish: I want it quickly available for my own records.
The other video is also a practice piece (for me). It's a short taken at the Olympic Club twe weeks ago during a spring rain. It's nothing to shout about - just fun.
All that said, have a look. This is a site that one can use for reference materials.
BOUQUETS OF MEMORIES: A long time ago (when I was of a poetic mind) I wrote a poem that went something like, “You make me feel / like I am at an eternal wedding./ You are always the bride / and I am always the one / who catches your bouquet.” The imagery is intentionally humorous but is, metaphorically, quite accurate. Sometimes it seems it is how things in my life often transpire; I am frequently on the receiving end of what may seem be small, but very wonderful things tossed in my direction.
In this case the “thing” – the “bouquet” – is the snapshot that accompanies these words. The person who tossed it to me is Vermilion expatriate Gayle Jeffery. Gayle, who to the best of my knowledge now lives in New York City, is one of three daughters born to late Vermilionites Keith “Doc” and Belva Jeffery. Actually, Gayle passed along six snapshots. But the image on the accompanying snap is one that I’d been hoping to find for a long, long time.
The area pictured should be somewhat familiar to most residents. It is, of course, the row of shops and restaurants on the south side of Liberty Avenue between Main and Grand streets. An image I’d been hoping to find for several years’ past was there: It is that of “The Schooner” Soda Bar / Luncheonette. Currently, Jon Clark’s Vermilion Insurance Agency (with the wonderful ship models in the windows) occupies the store. But over the years it has housed a number of other shops. At one time Genevieve Clark operated a very unique and popular music box store therein. A number of years before that Eva Wagner kept a gift store in the space. Prior to that it had been a Kroger Store. And before that it was the J.A. Klaar Harness Shop.
John A. Klaar, who operated his harness shop in the space for many years was an Amherst native. The business flourished until the development of the automobile. When the lease on the store expired in the Spring of 1931, he closed the door to the business and retired. While he did do some work in the rooms of the Kenik Shoe Store around the corner on Grand Street after that, he harbored no delusions that the harness trade would ever be in high demand again. In retirement he ran for and won the office of Village Clerk. He was in his third term and fifth year in that office when he went to the townhall on one frigid Monday in February of 1936. As he worked a backdraft from high winter winds snuffed out the flames in the gas heater in his office. They also snuffed out his life.
A Kroger Store then occupied the space until shortly after WW2 when a building built by late Vermilionites Dr. Dickason and George Roberts, (originally intended to be used as a bowling alley) became its new home. It was an ideal place for the store with plenty of parking. When Kroger moved to new digs in the South Shore Shopping Center the building became the Buyer’s Fair. Recently Moes Marine Services has expanded its services into the structure.
When the accompanying photo was taken Eva Wagner’s Gift Shop was located further west (to the right) on this block in the next to last shop before the Standard Oil service station on the corner of Grand and Liberty. Originally that shop was my grandmother’s “News Gift Store”. After her death (1946) the business was sold to Eva – Mrs. Wagner. Originally from Amherst, at age 14, Eva began working at the Wagner Hotel (currently home to the Vermilion Photojournal and Dr. Suszko’s Dental Office) as a chambermaid, cook and waitress. It is where she eventually met and married Elmer Wagner. She was an unassuming personality that during WW2 helped the effort by helping to make airplane parts at the Weatherhead Company in Cleveland. But following the war, in 1946 or ’47 when her efforts were no longer needed, she purchased the gift shop. When the Schooner restaurant disappeared, she moved the shop down the block.
I would guesstimate that the Schooner Luncheonette (pictured here c.1950) located in the building right after the war. I do, as a youngster, remember the place. But I never ate there. I simply recall passing by the eatery on my way to and from kindergarten classes atop the A&P Store that was then operating on the southeast corner of Liberty and Division streets. I don’t know who owned it or who worked there. But I’m happy this bouquet of memories from a yesteryear was tossed in my direction.
-Sunday, May 31, 2020
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...
The village council held its regular monthly meeting on Monday night. One of the first things done after the reading approval of the minutes of the previous meeting, was to present the “Dog Ordinance” to take the place of the present ordinance which was found ineffective. The ordinance as first presented provided for the muzzling of dogs during the summer months but it was the opinion of the majority of the Council also citizens present that dogs should be muzzled all year around when permitted to run at large.
One councilman did not approve of this change so voted against the ordinance on that account.
After considerable discussion the ordinance was passed as published elsewhere in the NEWS.
The appropriation or tax ordinance was passed and will be published.
The sidewalk committee reported and presented in ordinance regulating the building of sidewalks. This ordinance provides for a 4 foot walks of stone or cement, accepting or otherwise provided in all portions of the town accepting in the business portion of town where the walk is to be to extend from the line to the curb.
The streets were reported in excellent condition. It was reported that a number of citizens were now asking for oil who would not sign the petition when circulated, also that there were some was some misunderstanding as to what was required. It seems that it requires a majority of the owners of property on the street and if this could not be secured, the street could not be oiled. The streets were mentioned as being in the best condition of condition.
S. Rathbun sent in a communication in regard to the unsanitary conditions of the sewer on Perry Street, near his premises.
The clerk reported that Supt. Cook of the L. S. & M. S. Ry., would meet with the Council by appointment, in a few days, to consider the gate question.
Public grounds committee reported securing flowers for Exchange Place. Some of the residents on Hanover Square, asked for flowerbeds and seats for that part but as the children are using it for a playground, it was thought best not to interfere with them by placing flowerbeds there.
It was reported that the recent sewer connections made by F. J. Englebry were not satisfactory, the hole having been cut in the main pipe and the connection made by running the smaller pipe into it partially obstructing. The custom of using a Y connection not being observed. It was the sense of the Council that Mr. Englebry be notified to have the sewer connection changed or the Council do it for him at his expense.
It was reported that Messrs. Blattner, Carr and Trinter, had raised their walks and that the crossings would have to be raised to correspond. Also, that Mr. Blattner wished to lay a walk on the north side of his premises so as not to interfere with the trees which are in the walk line. It was stated that there was nothing to prevent Mr. Blattner laying the walk on his own premises inside the trees, otherwise the trees would have to come out.
The fire committee presented plans from the firemen for the enlargement of the firehouse and Hall. An extension of 12 feet on the west side to be made. The purpose is to enlarge the dance hall put in proper toilet and other conveniences. The council was asked to cooperate with them provide a place for the road and other tools and also make a better place for the fire equipment. The improvement would cost the village about $600. If the village could not assist the building, permission was asked to put on the addition to be supported on posts.
This proposition was in the nature of a surprise to council, while in favor of the improvement was not prepared to make any answer to the firemen. It had been the purpose of the finance committee to reduce the tax levy this time and also provide for the payment of indebtedness. An adjourned meeting will be held Monday evening to discuss the matter.
After ordering payment of bills and discussing other matters pertaining to the good of the Village the meeting adjourned.
Sometime past midnight the plant known as the old Howard Stove Works, west of town, was discovered to be on fire. The fire had gained such a headway that it was impossible to extinguish it and the supply of water consisting mainly of the cistern on George Maurer’s place would have been insufficient had the engine been sent out. No alarm was sounded in town so far as we can ascertain and the section hands on the Nickel Plate and one or two others were on hand to render all possible aid.
For a time it looked as if George Mauer, who lives nearby, would lose his barn and sheds which were on fire several times and had not been for the section hands he might have lost all, including the house.
The plant was owned by the State Bank of Savannah Mo., that institution having recently taken it by mortgage foreclosure. Nearly all the machinery and equipment had been removed, excepting the boiler engine and line shafting. The property had been offered for sale for some $4000, including the land. The origin of the fire is not known, possibly tramps or a spark from a passing train was the cause.
Decoration Day was fittingly observed here last Thursday. In the forenoon the G. A. R., W. R. C. and ban and services were held by both organizations. Public school pupils from districts number 6, 7 and 9 were present and sang. Master Robert Kuhlman of No. 7, Norma Feiszli No. 9 and Elizabeth Kamps No. 6 gave appropriate recitations.
After decorating the graves of the soldiers the crowd dispersed. A committee of the K. O. T. M. was also present and placed flags on the graves of the departed Sir Knights.
After dinner a parade was formed. The line of march was taken up, led by automobiles in which were the Mayor and Council. The line of march was from the G. A. R. Hall to the school building and return to Exchange Place Park. At the school building were a large number of the pupils of the school who joined in the parade.
At the park the W. R. C. held their services followed by a short address by Mayor Wakefield and address by Rev. T. H. D. Harrold the speaker of the day. Rev. Harrold’s address was greatly appreciated by the large crowd which had gathered Master Robert Kuhlman gave a recitation. The exercises were interspersed with music by the band.
A suit instituted by the Lake Shore Electric Ry. Co., against Gottlieb Werner, Huron, to condemn right-of-way for the proposed diversion of course between Huron and Rye Beach, has been settled. Entry accordingly certified to Clerk Stoll Tuesday.
A farewell reception was given Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Swisher, Friday evening, in the Congregational church. A large number were out to bid the former pastor and wife goodbye. Music was one of the features of the evening. Light refreshments were served.
Rev. and Mrs. Swisher left Saturday morning for Rising Sun, Ohio, where they expect to visit relatives.
Through telephone service between New York and Los Angeles promised by November.
The University of London has voted 10 to 1 in favor of extending the franchise to women.
Siam is in distress because the rice crop crop will be only 40% of the normal yield.
In France it will soon be a book obligatory to provide automobiles with mud guards to protect pedestrians.
Our railroads kille 10,000 a year. More than half of these on the list are trespassers on the tracks.
The jawbone of a man which was found not too long ago near Heidelberg Germany, is supposed to have been 200,000 years old.
More than 30% of all vehicles in Massachusetts are motor propelled, a greater proportion than in any other state.
Kobe, Japan, is trying to exterminate its rats, as a prevention against plague. A reward of 2 ½ cents gold is offered for each one brought in, and last year 354,291 rats were killed.
The Helpers’ Union will be entertained by Mrs. Loren Washburn on Thursday, June 6, 1912.
E. C. Wasem took a party of prominent citizens on an automobile trip to Chippewa Springs Farm Sunday.
The memorial exercises at the A. C. Church were well attended and were enjoyed by all. The singing by the Orphanage children did much toward making the most delightful program.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Berger, a son, May 29, 1912.
Miss Christina Schrock South Amherst is assisting Mrs. Fred Berger with her housework.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. John Darkey, a son, June 4, 1912.
Several from here attended the opening of Crystal Beach at Vermilion, Decoration Day.
The seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Lapp has the record of not missing one day of school the past year.
The funeral of Mrs. Wurmnest an aged pioneer resident was held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. Peter’s Evangelical church, Rev. Lindenmeyer, officiating.
The funeral services of Mrs. Anna Huja, was held from St. Joseph’s church on Saturday morning, and the body laid to rest in the St. Joseph Cemetery.
That this village has always been known as Amherst and that there was no necessity for the Post Office wrangle to change the name from North Amherst to plain Amherst several years ago has just been revealed by a monument in the Cleveland Street cemetery which reads: “Here lies Josiah Harris, born in Massachusetts, as Ohio pioneer of 1818. He was justice of the peace 36 years, Postmaster 40 years, Sheriff, judge, state representative, senator and founder of Amherst Village. He well finished his work and rested from his labor, March 26, 1868, aged 84 years.” That “North” was added to distinguish this place from South Amherst, is now the conclusion and might have been later legally adopted. – Tel.
The dust from the streets as being removed preparatory to oiling.
H. L. Nash is riding about in a fine new automobile. It is reported that he has made a purchase.
The gang of gas pipeline layers left on the C. L. W. Monday morning for other parts. The work of piping the gas into town is progressing nicely.
The laying of the cornerstone for the new M. E. Church at Florence has been postponed indefinitely, on account of the brick not being ready to complete the upper part of the basement wall.
Mother Jenkins living east of town went to Cleveland last week with her grandson and spent a few days visiting relatives. Mrs. Jenkins is one of our oldest and most sprightly ladies.
Probate judge, E. H. Hunnan of Lorain Co., died Wednesday morning at his home in Elyria. He had held the office of probate judge the past 30 years.
William Riley, 23, Cleveland firemen of the tug Anson M. Bangs, operated by the Breakwater Co. between Cleveland and Johnson’s Island, was drowned in Lake Erie off Vermilion late Sunday night.
Riley and a fellow seaman engaged in a good-natured scuffle for the possession of a tin cup, according to members of the crew. When his opponent broke away from the him and ran, Riley, in an attempt to corner him in the stern of the boat, fell overboard.
A lifeline was thrown to Riley from the tug and another from the scow Michael Doherty, the tug’s tow. Riley was within 5 feet of the scow when he went down. – Plain Dealer.
Brownhelm has lost one of its most cherished institutions, the Post Office at the “Station” was abandoned Friday.
If you want a comfortable but hot weather corset that will wash, get a Spirella of Mrs. Chandler. Phone or call.
Rowboats for rent, fishing tackle and bait at Murphie’s Boathouse just south of Pumping Station.
Miss Nora Friday, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Friday, was taken to a private sanitarium at Cuyahoga Falls for treatment. Miss Friday has been in ill health for some time and Saturday and Sunday developed symptoms of insanity. The family have the sympathy of the community in their trouble.
There are now 344 children of school age in Vermilion Village to the enumeration taken recently.
The Ladies League of the Christian church will hold an ice cream social on Dr. Heinig’s lawn, Friday evening, June 14.
The Lake Shore Electric Ry. will change to their summer schedule commencing today. A New timetable will be given next week as it was received too late for this week.
Miss Edith Leana Shadduck is a member of the graduating class of Ohio University in Athens. She has finished the course in elementary education. Miss Shadduck formerly lived at Vermilion and graduated from the V. H. S.
Mr. Herman Welz passed away at his home in Florence, Monday. Mr. Welz had been ill for several weeks but was apparently on the way to recovery. Heart failure is given as the cause. He was the father of Mrs. Theo. Welch of Vermilion Tp. The funeral was held today at 1 o’clock.
Justice Williams held court Monday evening to strangers, Scott Meredith and Ira Augslaid were found guilty of stealing $10 worth of John Reiber’s choicest chickens. Meredith was given 10 days and costs amounting to $7.35, Augslaid $25 and $7.35 costs. Both were taken to Sandusky and will probably spend half the summer there under guard. It seems that they were caught with the goods upon them and were in the act of dressing the fowls when arrested.
Mrs. Fred Englebry has so far recovered from a recent operation as to be removed to the home of her cousin in Columbus.
Dr. O. J. Bready, 1797 E. 55th St. is pleased to announce that he is still alive.
For the past five years there has been repeated doubt on this score among his friends. Bready himself has been forced to argue the matter with many.
Eight operations in five years have endangered Bready’s life. In 1907 he was under a surgeon’s knife once a month for seven months. Last winter he went to John Hopkins Hospital for his eighth operation. Now his professional friends think one more operation will put them in perfect shape.
“I’m going to be killed or cured” he says, “and I think I’ll be cured”. Brady came to Cleveland 30 years ago as a Barnum & Bailey circus performer. Soon when he was making balloon ascensions and parachute drops. Later as a patent medicine showman, his tent was pitched on every corner lot in the city. In 1898 he entered medical college and was graduated in 1903.
“I was injured internally in a bicycle accident five years ago,” he said Saturday. “During the resulting years illness, I lived at Superior Avenue at E. 22nd St. While I was sick, there were three funerals in the neighborhood. Each time my friends thought it was I who was loaded into the hearse. I’ve been living down the false rumors ever sense. – Press.
Dr. Bready has visited Vermilion several times.
A HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS AGO:And life went on....
…ago to pass the years of his allowance in peace and rest. His first wife died in 1861. Susanna Gablentz became his second partner. Two sons and one daughter are the fruits of this marriage.
John Klauss came here in 1835. No reliable information could be ascertained about this family. Mr. Klauss was a day laborer and was married in Sandusky. They had no children. He died in the last cholera time (1854). His widow moved to Elmore, O., where she married again.
Gottfried and Charles Doerflinger came here in 1836. A majestic bronze statue “Under den Linden" in Berlin represents Doerflinger, the general in chief, the hero of the battle of Fehrbellin (I675), the trusted friend of Frederick of Brandenburg, who laid the corner stone to Prussia's present might and glory. A poor tailor in his younger days did he exchange the yard stick for the sword and became a hero, immortalized in song and speech. Gottfried the subject of our sketch, has seen similar changes in his life; a tailor like him—although the habitations in the old country are too far apart as to admit of any relation—did he exchange the yard stick for the terror of unruly boys, the rod, and became the first German teacher in the public schools of Sandusky many years ago. He commanded, like his namesake, an army, but only of boys and girls, and worked his way faithfully and without any ostentation for more than thirty years. He retired a year or two ago to spend the remainder of his life with his wife and children. Carl Doerflinger, his brother, emigrated in the same year, 1836. He was born in Blankenloch, Baden, in 1825, and was married to Margarethe Maul in Sandusky in 1850. For more than thirty years has he been in the employ of the Old Mad River Railroad as carpenter. The names of the children of his family are given as follows: Louise Prediger, Christine Bock, Frank and John.
Heinrich Walter came to Sandusky in 1835. His cradle stood in Kretzingen, Baden, where he was born in 1813. He emigrated in 1836 making Sandusky his home until about ten years ago, when he settled with his grown-up boys on a well cultivated farm in Perkins township, about five miles from town. Walter was married to Barbara, a daughter of old Jacob Benz, in Sandusky. By trade he was a shoemaker and managed to accumulate by hard work sufficient means to pass his last days in comfort. Of the nine children born in married life, six are living, viz.: Jacob Walter, Caroline Spiegel, Perkins township; Susanne Fischer, Middle Bass Isle; Wilhelm W., Johann W. and Carl W. in Perkins.
Christian Engel came to Sandusky in 1835. Of the five children of John Peter Engel and his wife Sophie Frederika Eleonore Ernstine, two died in the old home in Ostheim, For der Rhoen, in Saxonia; the remaining three, Christian, Christiane and Marie made Sandusky their home. Christian, the oldest, became a resident as early as 1835. He was a shoemaker by trade and had his workshop where Kunzman's hotel is located on Jackson street.
TYPEWRITERS Pictured are some of the typewriters at the Vermilion History Museum. These were the writer's best friends during a majority of the years in the 20th century. Each one of these instruments has a history of its own. It's a long story...
Bill and Marla decided that the only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon quickie with their ten-year old son in the apartment was to send him out on the balcony and order him to report on all the neighborhood activities.
The boy began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation. "There's a car being towed from the parking lot," he said. "An ambulance just drove by." A few moments passed. "Looks like the Andersons have company," he called out, "Matt's riding a new bike and the Coopers are having SEX."
Mom and Dad shot up in bed. "How do you know THAT?!" the startled father asked.
"Their kid is standing out on the balcony, too," the son replied.
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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