Mark Sebastian Jordan, Knox Pages Correspondent

MOUNT VERNON — It’s a never-ending marketing game to try and claim superlatives, but Mount Vernon’s Woodward Opera House earns its tag of being the nation’s “oldest authentic 19th century theater.” In contrast, the oldest continuously operating theater in the United States is the Walnut Street Theater, in Philadelphia, which has been running since 1807. […]

Standing in the crumbling foundations of the long-gone St. Joseph mission church, one can almost imagine hymns being sung fervently, if a little out of tune, by the immigrant farmers gathered in the tiny church atop a steep hill just over the county line into Holmes County. Standing at the head of the congregation was […]