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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. When the graveyard was first planted in Ontario it grew in the dooryard of the Presbyterian Church. That church is long gone, and as the cemetery took on several more generations it got a new neighbor that also grew more impressive: the Ontario […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Galion upgraded its city library from a humble log house to a classic American Carnegie Library in 1904. Designed by Vernon Redding in a Classical Revival style that was a synthesis of Greek & Roman architecture, the library was intended to suggest the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2015. Every community has a cast of characters from generations past, whose memory lingers outside the confines of the officially sanctioned local history. These are the ones whose time on the planet was remarkable not for accomplishments or newsworthy notoriety, but simply because they were so extraordinary, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. This is the law of time: for every hour we go on there is an hour that slips behind. So that for every bit of gain there is equal loss. In order to enter the future we must relinquish the past. As each […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. In April of 1865 two hugely transformative events took place in the United States: on April 9 the four deadly years of Civil War finally came to an end; and only a few days later on April 15 President Lincoln was suddenly killed. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It has been three or four generations since Phoebe Wise has been gone. There are very few people alive today who ever actually laid eyes on her. Yet she still has a place in the family of this town. Perhaps today her place […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. It was a pizza parlor that stood alone among the competition: the only one that offered a live ragtime piano player. No one remembers if the pizza was any good … no one forgets the piano player. Today the building is Planet Rock.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2015 at Richland Source. It has long been a rumor of local lore, echoing out of the dim past, that the Nabisco Company started in Mansfield. This is sort of true. It can also be said that Nabisco started in dozens of other cities as well because […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Easter came early in 1913, so did the April showers. Easter fell on March 23, and the sky fell shortly thereafter. Within a week of Easter the weather was being called “Our National Calamity.” The storm system officially mounted out west, and came […]