Author: kdrenten
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Mo is For Movies
It was 7:36 p.m. on a warm summer evening, and Steve “Mo” Marlington stood for a moment in the corner of the concession stand of the Eastside Drive-In Theatre a few miles east of Rendville out on U.S. 20, watching a mountain of hot buttered popcorn sputter and grow within its glass enclosure.
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Roscoe Village: America’s Canal Town
Roscoe Village was restored in the 1960s as a unique living history museum. Not only does the town display a 19th century way of life with costumed interpreters, its buildings house active businesses that are open to the public along its brick-paved main street.
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Former grain elevator is family-run Homestead Store
The Homestead Store is a former grain elevator built in the late 1800s that has been a family-run specialty food and health supplement store in the Indian Lake community for more than 30 years.
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The Log Cabin
The man, who wore heavy leather boots and coat, and breeches made of heavy woolen cloth, stepped down from the wagon he had driven on the rough-hewn road. The roadway was heavily studded with stumps but there was a clearing in the forested country.
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Westcott, other Wright houses captivate Ohio visitors
Westcott House in Springfield is the oldest and probably the best known house in Ohio by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Watts Restaurant offers homestyle food and atmosphere
Watts Restaurant has been in business in Utica since 1912, serving its customers homestyle meals, baked goods and desserts.
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The Baseball Game
Andrew Jenkins, or “Jenks” as he was called by his teammates, stood in left field gazing at the crowd in the stands. It had taken him a long time to get here, and he was going to enjoy every moment of it.
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Spring wildflowers on display at Inniswood, Wahkeena parks
Inniswood Metro Gardens in Westerville is a beautiful place to view spring wildflowers. (Credit: Inniswood Garden Society) By Ken Drenten With spring upon us, now is a great time to get out and look for Ohio wildflowers like Trillium, Yellow Trout Lily, Dutchman’s-breeches and Spring Beauties. Two of the best places I know of to…
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Pennyroyal Opera House is home to bluegrass concerts
Nestled in the village of Fairview along what was once the National Road sits the Pennyroyal Opera House, a white clapboard structure that is highly visible along I-70 at the border of Guernsey and Belmont counties.
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Patience
It was a struggle. It had taken all the effort it could muster to push upward from under the ground, and still it was not enough. Strife! “Patience must be learned,” it heard whispered from somewhere.
Dusty Tires 