Author: kdrenten
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Wittich’s Candy Shop has been sweet since 1840
At Wittich’s Candy Shop in Circleville, Ohio, candy is not just a treat, it’s a genuine experience in history. The store’s founder, G.F. Wittich, established the candy shop in 1840.
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The Drive Home
The man and woman in the compact car were young, newly married, and looking forward to their first Christmas together. She had insisted that they drive to her parents’ home in Rendville, Ohio; he had to work late at the newspaper.
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Tis the Season offers huge selection of Christmas decor
Tis the Season in Berlin, Ohio, is Ohio’s largest year-round Christmas shop, in a unique, 20,000-square-foot, round building with three floors of Christmas wonderland.
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The Sack Lunch
Elmer sat in a graying wood shack on a street corner looking over a small collection of evergreen trees. The trees were propped up by metal stakes driven into the hard-packed ground. He sold trees at the lot every November and December.
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Christmas tree farms are a tradition in Ohio
When I was a young lad, my family trod up and down snow-covered hills somewhere in central Ohio to cut down a Christmas tree. We would take turns with axe and saw until finally my father took down the tree once and for all.
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Blackbird Records is giant of a small record store
Tucked away in the city of Wooster in north central Ohio is Blackbird Records, a store that’s a throwback to the heyday of record stores in the 1970s.
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Here is the video — Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace, Part 1
Subscribers, here’s the video link that was omitted from the original blog post from earlier today. Apologies for the operator error in not attaching the link!
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace Part 1
This week in Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires, I’m tracking the oldest road in Ohio, Zane’s Trace.
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Certified, Qualified — But Not Bonafide
By Ken Drenten Arlo walked into the U.S. Army recruiting office on Main Street. “Is this where the registration is, Colonel?” he asked a sergeant in an olive drab uniform who sat behind a desk, eating his lunch. “I’m not a colonel, I’m a sergeant,” the sergeant said in a bored, annoyed tone. He looked…
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Classic Auburn car museum in Indiana is well worth the trip
We’re going slightly outside the state of Ohio once again because we’d like to steer you to a place you won’t want to miss – the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Ind.
Dusty Tires 