Author: kdrenten
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The Sledding Hill
When snow falls in sufficient depth, and temperatures stay cold enough to keep the snow on the ground for more than a couple of days, many people in Ohio go to the ski slopes in Mansfield or Bellefontaine. Others take their kids to local hills and parks with snow dishes, sleds and toboggans.
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Somerset’s Clay Haus serves fine food, historic atmosphere
The Clay Haus is located in an early 1800s building along US 22 in Somerset. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten The Clay Haus in Somerset, a restaurant that specializes in German and American food, has been serving sauerbraten, prime rib and steaks since 1978, but its roots go back much further than that. The…
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: A Three-Buggy Day
Each year, my extended family and I go on an extended weekend getaway to a cabin, usually either in the Hocking Hills area or in the Mohican or Amish Country area. My mother started this years ago as a Christmas gift to the family.
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The Campfire
The weekend was setting up to be the coldest so far in January. So cold in fact that the weather people on the TV news talked about possible record lows, even double-digits below zero.
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Learn more about Black History in Ohio at these museums
Ohio is well-known as the home of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, as well as the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce.
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Scrooge in January, Part 3
After Moses had left him, suddenly Scrooge was on a city street corner, but it was not a city he recognized at all. Strange-looking wheeled conveyances without horses crowded the street. Bright and colorful lights illuminated by no flames lit the night sky.
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Boyd & Wurthmann Restaurant is unassuming landmark in Berlin
Boyd & Wurthmann Restaurant is housed in an unassuming-looking storefront along Main Street drag in the bustling touristy Amish town of Berlin.
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Scrooge in January, Part 2
Scrooge wrapped his robe more tightly around him against the cold wind on the mountainside and looked around, but he saw no one nearby. Then he looked out across the valley below.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Two mills remain in Muskingum County
At the height of the era of old country mills in Ohio, there were 18 such mills in Muskingum County. Now there are only two venerable mills that remain standing in the county, both along Jonathan Creek in Newton Township.
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Scrooge in January, Part 1
A Dusty Tires Short Story By Ken Drenten Part 1 It was a few years after that momentous Christmas when Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge, Esq. had received a visitation from the three spirits – a visit that had changed his life for the better. These days, when Christmas came around, Scrooge was a right hearty old…
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