Vermilion Ohio, A Good Place to Live
SHOPTALK: OKAGI (AGAIN): Ok, call me “Redundant Rich”. But I can’t help it. When I find a great photograph of Vermilion’s yesteryear I am, for some reason, compelled to share it. Never mind that its focal point (i.e. the Okagi Restaurant) has been the subject of previous columns. It’s still worth sharing.
There are at least two things that make this particular photo significant. The first is that it affords all a very, very good look at, not only the front of the restaurant as it appeared in the mid to late 1930s, but also gives us a rare look at Vermilion’s first Kroger store next door. Secondly, it serves as a graphic example of the popularity of the eatery. The folks milling around in front of the place are not waiting for a bus. They’re waiting for the door of the restaurant to open. Moreover, they’re first in line. Later in the day the queue of souls waiting for their turn to eat at Okagis would easily fill the walk. So popular was the restaurant that on most holidays and Sundays waiting patrons were given numbered tickets to insure their place in line.
Briefly reiterating the history of the famed restaurant and its owners: In the autumn of 1913 Mamoru Okagi (b. Fukuoka, Japan 1880) and his wife Marie (b. Bordeaux, France 1889) had purchased both a restaurant and a home in the Village of Vermilion, Ohio. Late Vermilionite Don Englebry wrote in his memoirs; “Okagis opened their first restaurant where the Prague Restaurant is now.” But by 1919 their business had become so successful they found a need to acquire a larger building – the one (pictured) next to the Erie County Bank. The new quarters had a seating capacity of 225.
Despite their ethnicity (i.e. Japanese and French) the restaurant fare was American. The food was served family-style on tables covered with linen tablecloths, set with real linen napkins, silverware, and china and glass table settings. Everyday fresh flowers were placed in the front window. In short, the food was apparently great, the prices reasonable, and the ambiance extremely pleasant.
Over the years a basement was added to increase work and storage space. And in the spring of 1933 a black and white glass front was added. It was the very first (and only one) of its kind in the village. In addition to that another door was added to the front of the building making access and egress for large numbers of customers much easier.
The couple having no children of their own took in, and raised, two orphan children - a girl and a boy. The girl's name was Mary Kenik. She eventually married a fellow by the name of Russell Vasbinder. The boy they raised was named George Kominis. He became a pilot in the military during WW2. Afterwards he became a commercial pilot, and had a very successful career.
In 1942 Mrs. Okagi, upon discovering that she was terminally ill, took her own life. Some years thereafter Mr. Okagi sold the business to his adopted daughter's husband, Russ Vasbinder, and his brother-in-law, Cecil Thomas. A few years afterward Mr. Okagi left his adopted town, and the business he had so carefully crafted with his wife - forever.
Mamoru Okagi did not return to Japan, but lived out the remainder of his years on the West Coast. He died on December 23, 1956 in Los Angeles. Today no corporeal vestiges of the restaurant that had earned a national reputation remain. It is now dissolved into a storefront shared over the years by several different agencies. But ask around. There is still a person or two who can remember the wonderful Okagi Restaurant.
As a footnote to this story I add the following communiqué that I received in August of 2007 after Mr. Okagi’s nephew, Bob Okagi, came across my story(ies) about his uncle on the Internet:
“…being related to the owner of the Okagi Restaurant of yesteryears, it gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as one of his nephews (live-75 years). And am currently residing in Lacey, WA, although I have not been privileged to visit Vermilion, I have frequently visited and enjoyed Mamoru Okagi's hospitality during Aug 1955 through Nov 1956 in Los Angeles, CA. during his retirement.
There were many interesting moments of his life that was shared in the short time we spent together while I was attending Northrop Aeronautical Institute in Inglewood, CA. Your website has refreshed many memories of times spent together including his memories of his wife Marie, Mary & John [sic] Vasbinder, Cecil Thomas, and Mary's son that wrote to his pappy routinely, which was cherished and enjoyed by Mamoru…”
So in the end, redundant or not, the Okagis and their restaurant earned a place in history worth knowing and remembering whether you live here, Los Angeles, or Lacy, WA.
CHESTER W. HODGSON is the handsome fella in the pic with Mr. Okagi. Hodgson was well-known in Erie and adjoining counties not only due to his business associations, but fraternal as well. In fact, in this pic he is evidently giving Okagi a membership card to the Vermilion Rotary Club which Hodgson had presided over as president.
Hodgson was killed one night in late November of 1951 in an auto-truck accident on Lake Road (then Routes 6&2) near his home in Mitawanga (west of Vermilion). He was killed after having demonstrated a new car to a client. At the time he was employed at the Lake Terminal Railroad in Lorain, but worked part-time as a salesmen for Vermilion’s F.E. Baker Ford dealership.
Hodgson, who was only 49 years old at the time, was born in 1902 in a place called Hemlock, a small community in southeastern Ohio. His dad was a coal miner.
Before coming to Vermilion from Bellevue he had worked as office manager for the Lake Erie Power and Light Co. for a number of years. In Vermilion he managed the office for the Ohio Public Service Co. – later Ohio Edison.
During WW2 he worked as assistant to the maintenance superintendent, Mark Woodward, of the Trojan Powder Co at Plum Brook ordnance works. Later he was assistant to the superintendent of E.B. Badger and Sons construction engineers at the same plant. He also operated the Lake Shore Development Association Club near Ruggles Beach.
Were none of that enough he also served one term as president of the Vermilion Board of Education and, as already mentioned was a past President of the Vermilion Rotary Club, and was also a member of Ely Lodge 424, F. & A.M.
In 1920 he had married Miss Marie Williams of Perry, Ohio. The couple had four children, Ned, Phyliss (John Hillis), Gayle and Blair.
His funeral took place the following Saturday at the Fisher Funeral Home (now Riddle) with Rev. Earl T. English presiding. He was, afterward, interred at Maple Grove Cemetery.
He certainly never let moss grow under his feet.
1ST VIRTUAL TOUR APPLICATION: This has been a rather hectic week. Whether it’s because of the changes in our lives caused by the virus or it’s just the normal state of my affairs I’m not certain. I am inclined to believe, however, that it is the new normal.
The virus, as many persons may well understand, has knocked me, at least, off my daily routine, and I’m not sure if I’ve accomplished more or less during the last month or so. I often find myself trying to remember what day of the week it is.
When wearing a face covering in public, I feel like I did when I was a youngster all dressed up for Trick-or-Treat; It overwhelms me – and it’s hard to communicate with others. My glasses fog up and I sound like I have a mouth full of cotton (which is partially true).
But struggle or not, I’ve begun to put together the first virtual tour of the Vermilion History Museum. As you will discover if you follow the link to it that I have provided below, it is very rudimentary. In a week or so I hope you will be able to easily chart your own course through the museum; and items of interest will be identified throughout your visit.
This is new territory for me so please be patient. I’ve got a good deal of cleaning / arranging to do before the final product is made public. I’m also waiting on a longer tripod for the camera so the tour will appear much as it would if a normal-sized person were walking through the facility. At the moment I can only shoot from about 3 feet. Soon I should be able to take photographs from at least 5 feet.
Anyway, here it is. You will find it on an old website that I put together nearly 20 years ago that features photographs of the print shop portion of the museum back then. The virtual tour is large and will require that you choose individual rooms in the museum apartment and click and drag your way around them. Have fun. And stay tuned for my updates. AND REMEMBER. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
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CICCO: The pic accompany this essay was likely taken around 1953. In any case, just out of idle curiosity I began doing a little research into the life of late Vermilionite Lewis Cicco. Some readers will recognize the name because Mr. Cicco once had a nice restaurant near the lake on West Lake Road just a mile or so from town. It disappeared in a spectacular nighttime fire in 1958. At that time it was being renovated into a private home. Cicco had sold the place two years earlier. Until I began researching, I was under the (wrong) impression that it was still a restaurant. By 58 Mr. C was selling real estate and living somewhere along Risden Road.
In any case Cicco was the real deal: born in Italy on April 5, 1902 by 1908 he was living in Lorain, Ohio with his father Pietro and mother Mary. His father worked in the steel mill. By the time he was 17 he had joined his dad at the mill. But by the time he reached his 28th birthday he was working at the shipyards (i.e. the American Shipbuilding Co.) Some sources indicate that he worked for American Ship for 30 years. If that is the case he may have continued working for them after he’d purchased, and was operating, his restaurant in Vermilion.
Cicco’s Restaurant had opened in 1938 and the place did rather well easily earning a positive reputation as a great dining spot (for spaghetti & fish dinners) along the lake often providing catering and a meeting place for local civic groups, etc.
In 1956 he sold the property to a Lorain man named John Kochan. In late December of 1958 as Kochan as plumbers were in the process of repairing the heating system for residential use the place went up in flames. Although volunteer firemen from Vermilion, Huron and Berlin Heights worked tirelessly to stop the fire inclement weather made the task impossible.
On April 15,1959 – his 57th birthday - Lewis Cicco died and was laid to rest at Maple Grove Cemetery near Vermilion, O. He left behind his wife, Edith, and two children Harriet and Richard. Edith died in Oberlin in 1973. Son Richard followed in 1985. Harriet (aka) Ketti, Kettiluigina Maria died in 2014.
As fate would have it I came to know both Richard and Ketti quite well. Both were interesting personalities. In short, they both lived their lives at what I can only describe as being “full throttle.” I believe that Ketti’s personal epitaph (she was cremated and her ashes remain in Georgia) speaks quite well for both her and her brother: “I was here, I made my mark, and now am gone.”
God rest them all.
NOW SHOWING: Two weeks ago I added a slide show: Now & Then (at the museum and around town). It's about 20 minutes long. It was something I originally did for the Vermilion Area Archival Society. When originally presented I did some commentary as I changed slides. The production is without that commentary - but has some great music with it. I think you will like it.
Anyway, have a look.
BEN SUTILEF FINDS HAPPINESS: In my recent search for information re: the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Vermilion I came across a photo of the soldier whose picture accompanies this essay. One reason that it interested me is that I recognized his name from an earlier period of local history. My knowledge of him began here:
The Vermilion News Thursday, January 21, 1909 – “Last Thanksgiving Bennie Sutliff [sic], who had been at the Light and Hope Orphanage for some seven years, left that institution without leave and came to Vermilion. He took up his residence at Peter Hahn's where he is at present.” The aforementioned orphanage later became known as the “Gore Orphanage” by many persons. Bennie’s flight from that institution was essentially the beginning of a widely publicized investigation of the operation that eventually led to its being dissolved completely by 1916.
Ben, who was born in Monroe, Indiana in 1892 was sent with his younger sister, Ruby, to live with the orphanage founders John and Katie Sprunger on his fifth birthday. He later recalled, "When Mr. Sprunger opened his orphanage in Birmingham, Ohio I was nine years old and was sent ahead with the cattle. I slept in the cold in the stockyards (near St. Mary's Church in Vermilion, Ohio) until Mrs. Sprunger arrived, then I walked to Birmingham, driving the cattle.
The Boys dormitory was a building near the road. I helped build the barn when I was ten years old. We hauled stone for the foundation from the riverbed. We had a buggy shed, a print shop (where the paper Light and Hope was published). We had a schoolhouse and a chapel also. [Note: a nursery was added for babies only a few weeks old in 1900] We raised our own food, even tapped the maple trees. My mother brought my clothes.
There were 100 children at a time living in that orphanage. My little sister was sent there when she was only two years old. I saw her very seldom. The girls and the boys each ate in their own dormitory. No, no, I wasn't happy. Some of the boys had welts on their backs from whippings.
We boys were loaned to neighboring farms. I often worked at the Andress farm. We worked until dusk, and I recall pulling the little express wagon loaded with hog’s heads. Yes, we had enough to eat, but I sometimes think sick cattle were sometimes slaughtered. We bought some food at the Sid Simons grocery [ed. note: that store was in Vermilion], but most often staples were ‘begged’.
When I was fourteen, I wanted a bike to help pull the wagon. I guess I thought I earned it in hard work. So, I took $5.00 from the sugar bowl. I was caught, of course. I ran away and that was the end of my orphanage life. I often lived with the Andresses and learned farming and carpentry. My father was a carpenter. I've kept in touch with all my brothers and sisters.” He would end that story by saying, “This isn't a happy story. You can ask any of the Vermilion children who lived there. There were many."
Well, Ben never returned to the orphanage. It was dissolved by 1916. He remained with his adopted family, taking up work on the railroad, until the spring of 1918 when he entered the Army. In August of 1918 he was sent to France on the troop transport ship Euripides with Co. B of 34th Engineers. The following August found him honorably discharged and back in Vermilion. On December 31st of that same year he married a Vermilion girl named Ida Opplinger and was working with local contractor E.E. Koontz as a carpenter. It was a trade he would follow for the remainder of his years. Several of the smaller homes on Haber Road and State Street were his work. [I have his diary where he kept a list of materials and measurements he bought and used in their construction.]
Unlike Ben’s early orphanage recollections, the remainder of his life in Vermilion was relatively unremarkable. He passed into the next phase of being in 1977. He was in his mid-80s. Ida joined him there in 1990. But there is one thing for sure; as unremarkable as the remainder of his life on earth had been after leaving the orphanage, it was a happy story.
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...
Five members what is believed to have been the gang that broke into cars at the Lake Erie and Western yards, at Sandusky, and got away with a quantity of merchandise on March 3 last, were indicted by the grand jury, in its report submitted Tuesday morning at the courthouse.
There were four indictments against each of the five men, whose names are given as Peter O’Donnell, alias Peter Carlin, alias John Murphy set; Henry Reed, alias William Rhinesberg, alias Fred Fergear; Thomas Jones; William Barry and William Brooks.
Seven indictments were rendered by the grand jury, one secret. Six of them dealt with burglary and larceny cases. For this offense, an indictment was brought against Frank Kadervek, charging him with stealing 2 bushels of oats John Bolcen’s grainery in Florence Township; and the other against James Sagers, accused of breaking into the Lake Erie and Western station house March 16, taking money in the sum of $1.35, and a check for $8.
Among the cases ignored was that brought against John Neuschler of Venice, by Eric Grahl, in which Neuschler was charged with shooting at Grahl and a son of Justice Pfaff, of Margaret Township.
[NOTE: I dictate this info using Dragon Dictate software. In doing so I often come across names that are difficult to pronounce. To my surprise the name Pfaff was spelled correctly – so I must have pronounced it right. Wow!]
In all, the grand jury was in session 8 days, examine 61 witnesses, and looked into 11 cases. The jail was found to be in good condition.
In the common pleas court the company brought suit to recover $300 on a promissory note, signed by Wahl and on which Haeuptle was the surety.
It was claimed by a Wahl that he was induced to sign the note thru representations that were not true, which connected his daughter Louise Wahl of Milan, with the disappearance of money in the cash drawer of the company. The jury in the common pleas court returned a verdict against the telephone company which took the case up on error.
As far as the testimony shows, no one saw the death of John Banville, September 10, last year under the wheels of the Wheeling and Lake Erie train at Huron. That such was the case developed at the conclusion of the evidence presented by the administrator, John Rhinemiller, in his $10,000 damage suit against me. A. Worthington, receiver of the Wheeling and Lake Erie road, and the Huron Dock Co., in the common pleas court.
After the testimony of the plaintiff was all presented, the defendants filed a motion to take the case from the jury, have a verdict returned for them. They claim that there was not enough testimony from the jury to find for the plaintiff.
Frank Kadervek, indicted by the grand jury Tuesday for the alleged theft of 2 bushels of oats from John Bolson’s grainer at Florence appeared before Judge Stahl in the court of common pleas soon after the indictment was returned received a suspended sentence to the Mansfield Reformatory. He was given 10 days within which to pay the costs in the case.
Arguments in the case of John Kurtz against John McLaughlin and G. Nolte, a suit to recover $800 on a $8 promissory note, were completed before Judge Carver in the common pleas court, Saturday morning. The principal question in the case is whether Mrs. McLaughlin is entitled to household exemptions out of her husband’s property. She is the wife of a Vermilion township Farmer.
The Lake Shore Electric railway means business on the Huron cut-off from Rye Beach to the new bridge at Huron. Tuesday afternoon it filed an appropriation suit in the probate court of this County asking the court to impanel a jury to fix the value of the land for right-of-way across the farm of Philip Saylor, near Rye Beach. The hearing in the probate court was fixed for Monday, April 22.
It is claimed in the petition that Fred Riedy did not fulfill his entire contract placing stone on the Bogart road, in that he did not cover the length of the road specified by Surveyor County auditor Diest is about to pay Reedy $800, when there is only $400 coming to. The facts connected with the matter had been aired several times before the county commissioners.
County auditor Diest was enjoined from issuing a warrant in favor of Fred Riedy for $800, and County Treasurer Nuhn was restrained from paying out money, as a result of the suit brought in the common pleas court, Tuesday morning by the state under relation of Anna S. Dick, who styles herself a taxpayer.
Arguments in the case of Inter-State Ice company against William F. Seitz, Jr., and Julius Roth, will be heard in the Common Pleas court, Friday morning. The case involves an attempt to recover the sum of $10,000 alleged to have been made illegally by the defendants in the sale of ice to the company.
George B Krapp is again gone into the retail meat business in Vermilion. Monday morning. Mr. Krapp took charge of the Gardner market having purchased the same from Mr. Gardner the latter part of the last week. He intends to keep a full supply of meats on hand will be pleased to meet his old customers.
Mr. Gardner does not at present know what business he will be engaged in.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Leuzler, a son, Thursday, April 11.
H. A. Williams has purchased the photograph business of J. H. Copeland.
Funeral services of Albert Sabiers was held on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Lindenmeyer officiated.
Funeral services of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scachscez, South Amherst were held on Friday.
The funeral of Constanto Ashek, were held on Friday morning from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
The funeral services of William Hollie were held on Saturday afternoon from St. Peter’s Evangelical church, Rev. Lindenmeyer officiated.
The condition of Miss Florence Hollingsworth is very ill with typhoid pneumonia in Alabama, has changed for the worse. She has recently had a relapse and is reported very low.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Ada Pearl was held from the home on Monday at 10:30. Mrs. Berid, spiritualist, officiating. Burial was made in Kendeigh Corner Cemetery.
William Rose, Jr., while hunting on Saturday afternoon was accidentally shot in the leg. His young companions who were with him accompanied him home. The wound is not considered a serious one.
Mr. A. Joyce is putting up a new barn.
Newton Clary who has been very ill is improving.
Frank Klady is very ill with pneumonia at his home in Florence.
Mr. Adolf is in town overseeing his orchard.
Chas. Grenzenbach has purchased a new auto truck to use in his meat business.
Some of this place attended the first ballgame at Cleveland, April 11.
The fishing was fairly good last week. For a good fish story ask either Vern Henry, Matt Reeser, Lou Lord or E. J. Darby.
Work in the orchards has begun in earnest. The trimming is well in hand and spray machines are at work in many orchards.
Mrs. Martin Brod who has been very ill is able to be on up and around.
Charlie Knott of Wakeman attended the funeral of Charlie Schuster Saturday.
That there are still an oversupply of dogs running at large. That there are some good sized mud holes at the entrance to each stall at the town hall shed.
That the editor of the Sandusky Register has lost all site of the fact that he is working for Taft in an attempt to vilify Roosevelt.
The street scraper has been at work the past week.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Christian, Friday, April 12, 1912, son.
Mrs. Elizabeth Naegele fell one day last week while work at work in the yard of her home, hurting herself severely.
A severe electric storm passed over Vermilion Sunday evening. No serious damage reported in the immediate vicinity.
Elton Fisher spending his Saturdays at Elyria learning to operate a fine new 7-passenger Garford recently purchased by his father. Some pleasant trips for the summer are being planned.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. James Quigley, Saturday, April 13, 1912, a son, weight 10 lbs.
Dr. E. J. Heinig was called to Millersburg Friday, by the death of his father, which occurred on Thursday evening. The doctor returned Tuesday, but Mrs. Heinig son and remain for the week.
The fish companies and their employees settled their difficulty Saturday, and Sunday morning the local fishermen began their seasons work. Catches reported fair.
Rev. and Mrs. Harrold were called to attend the funeral of Mrs. Harold’s uncle, Mr. R. P. Murray, of Leesville, Pa., who died Monday noon, was buried at Ashtabula, O., On Wednesday, April 17, ‘12.
Miss Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross Society, died last Friday at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland. She had been in poor health for months. She was 98 years old.
Peach growers about here prophesy at least half crop if nothing further should prevent. Every indication for a pear crop is fine.
Sam Reed who has been confined to his bed for several weeks on account of sickness was able to be on the streets Monday.
Wm. Baker, village Butcher has been confined to the house for a few days with rheumatism. Mr. Kalmer is looking after the interests of the market.
Grant VanThorne is now ready to supply its patrons as well as automobile drivers with gasoline since he has just recently installed a new gasoline tank in front of the store.
…lived on a farm for several years. They subsequently moved to Sandusky and then to Fort Wayne, Ind., where they died, being respectively seventy five and eighty-three years of age. Charles being a skillful mechanic found ready work in Thomas White's cabinet shop on Hancock street, near the east Market Square, and was in his employ for nearly five years. Whenever you pass O. Follett's house on the corner of Wayne and Adams streets, look up to the bannister's and scroll work, they are samples of his work dating back to 1836. In 1840 Charles Zollinger branched out for himself on the corner of Wayne and Washington streets, by renting a wooden structure belonging to the Clemons family on the Peninsula. He employed from four to six workmen all the year round. In those days nothing was known about “cheap John " goods, everything was substantial and made to last for a generation or two. Improved machinery and cheap labor put an end to this as well as many other industries that were prosperous in the good old time. In the cholera of 1849 his shop was running day and night to meet the demand for coffins, plain and unfinished as they were. In 1863 he moved his shop to Wayne street, next door to the corner of Market. Undertaking had then become the most remunerative part of his business. He retired in 1868 in possession of considerable wealth. Christ R. Ruff (member of the firm of Ruff, Son & Kugler) became his successor. Charles Zollinger was married in 1839 to Christine Schmidt, who was born April 14, 1821, in Bahlingen, Baden. Of the twelve children born to them in married life ten are now living, viz.: Maria Nagele, Sandusky; John, Adolph and Zollinger; Henriette Weiss, Sandusky; Catharine Schneer, Elyria; Carl, Columbus; Christine Crass, Sandusky; Elizabeth, Sandusky; William, Powers & Zollinger; Frederick, Third National Bank; and Frank, Sandusky. Mr. Zollinger died in 1868. His widow is enjoying good health and the fruit of hard and honest work.
Johannes Schmidt was in Bahlingen, Baden, in 1784, and emigrated with his wife, Catharine Ernst, in 1833. He was a baker by profession. Their journey through France was accomplished by wagon. In Havre de Grace they took passage with the Booss family on the sailing vessel Henry Clay. The Booss family were very wealthy, said the Widow Zollinger, in conversation to the writer, the chest containing their money and valuables was heavy enough to require two men to lift it on the wagon. For seven long weeks did they encounter wind and storm on the ocean. At their arrival in New York they directed their steps to the metropolis of the west, Sandusky. The steamboat Perry landed them safely near the B. and O. R.R. shops. A little house on Water street was their first home, but they did not stay more than two or three weeks, when they moved to Richland county, the El Dorado in those days, as the name plainly signifies. Here Johannes Schmidt settled with his wife and children, here he toiled and died. Land was cheap in those days, fifty dollars paid for their first homestead of forty acres, but it was a wilder…
CLATE & NUG: As some (readers) may know we’ve begun sorting through the thousand or more photo plates (that were used in letter press printing) at the history museum. They’re really fun and interesting artifacts.
The images (above) are from a characterization plate that Nuggie (Evelyn) and Clayton Cook used for advertising when they had an electronics repair shop on Main Street in Vermilion back in the 1950s.
Because I knew both so well, I got a real kick out of coming across the plate. It’s rather small but very accurate. I’ve also seen at least one ad that was used with the plate.
I also remember their shop. Nug worked the counter and sold me many a 45 rpm record (99¢) when I was a kid. She also sold me my first portable radio that I carried with me on my bike as I delivered papers around town. I paid five bucks a week for three weeks to get that radio. Nug was good to me (and many others).
A university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing these four elements:
- religion
- royalty
- sex
- mystery
The prize-winning essay read: "My God," said the Queen. "I'm pregnant. I wonder who did it?"
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.
THE BEAT GOES ON: This page is generated by a dreaded Macintosh Computer and is written and designed by (me) Rich Tarrant. It will change weekly ~ usually on Saturday. Bookmark the URL (Universal Resource Locater) and come back at your own leisure. Send the page to your friends (and enemies if you wish). If you have something to share with those who visit this page, pass it on. And if you see something that is in need of correction do the same. My sister, Nancy, is a great help in that respect. It only takes me a week to get things right. And follow the links. You might find something you like. If you experience a problem with them let me know. Also, if you want to see past editions of this eZine check the new archives links below.
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