Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. If you study baseball, and you study history, you begin to understand that both of these subjects are totally shaped and sustained by the same element of our existence: the element of time. Because there is no clock in baseball, it is easy […]
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Reflections: A pilgrimage to Mohican & the Ohio Memorial Shrine in 1947
In 1945 the end of the World War II was in sight, and forward-looking folks were pondering the massive task before them of coming to terms with the tremendous burden of grief that overshadowed the country after 400,000 military deaths. Quick fixes and short-sighted measures might get the U.S. through the immediate aftermath of such […]
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Ohio State Mansfield and Mansfield City Schools announce collaborative volunteer program
MANSFIELD — The Ohio State University at Mansfield and Mansfield City Schools have partnered to facilitate a volunteer program that incentivizes community service among Ohioans who are 60 years old and up with the opportunity to earn free college tuition. The program, Give Back Go Forward, has been active on the Columbus campus, but Mansfield […]
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Then & Now in Mansfield: Fourth & Weldon from 1896
MANSFIELD — Historical Hide & Seek in downtown Mansfield often works like this: We find a picture taken by a photographer in the 1800s who was capturing a building that seemed interesting enough at the time to document. We take the photo to the site intending to capture the same scene today. We discover that […]
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Review a view over downtown Mansfield through history
It is important to have the opportunity to see your town all at once — to experience the wholeness of it. Our lives are spent on the ground, on a street, in a neighborhood; and the views we know are always, therefore, necessarily fragmentary, partial and only a piece of the whole. But in order […]
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A snapshot of Mansfield in 1926: An immigrant’s album
MANSFIELD — Georg Nillsen became an American in 1926. He sailed across the ocean from Sweden because he believed there was a wonderful and exciting new life for him in the United States. With his name reconfigured in English to George Nelson, he wound up in Mansfield working at the Steel Mill. He was so […]
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Here’s the strategy of The Big House at Malabar Farm 1939
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. The home that author Louis Bromfield built on his farm in Pleasant Valley was designed very intentionally to appear as if it had grown through the generations, with successive additions built on to an old farmhouse. The ‘generations of additions’ part of the story […]
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Then & Now: Angle’s grocery store 1900
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2015. MANSFIELD — John Angle had a grocery store on the south side of the Square in 1900. He also had a camera and a fierce desire to capture the world around him on paper. One of the attractions that drew folks in off the sidewalk was a […]
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Memories reflect on the evolution of 2nd & Walnut St. since 1930
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. MANSFIELD — Go to the corner of Second and Walnut and you’ll find a pretty quiet place: folks sitting on the porch; a little slow coming and going; some friendly low-key conversation. As of 2015, it’s the West Park Senior Center. Had you reached […]
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Lexington Blueberry Festival releases schedule of events
LEXINGTON — The Lexington Blueberry Festival begins this Thursday and will run through the weekend at Lexington Community Park. Parking is available by the soccer fields at the north end of the festival and south of Sherwood Drive. Handicap parking is located at the nearest side of the main parking lot, down by the ball […]