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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Friends and family from the Village of Lucas set out on an adventure one day in 1912 and they took a camera with them. T he album of photos they left behind tells the story of their visit to a riverside hollow up […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This storyw as originally published at Richland Source in 2014. Part I of this essay was republished last week on June 20, 2020. During the 19teens, the number of silent picture theaters in downtown Mansfield took a quantum leap. After spending generations of life confined to one’s own mundane experience — seeing only […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Bright photographs made of light — photographs that moved — suspended in the dark like dreams that had been captured in the night and put on display.  It was a totally new kind of theater in the first decade of the 20th century, where the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Some of the oldest buildings that survive in downtown Mansfield are standing in the block of South Main Street that faces the Square. The “newest” of all the business buildings in this block is Mechanics Bank built on the Park Avenue corner in 1926. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. Everybody loves to feel free, and there is little that is more freeing than being at the wheel and having the open road in front of you. Think how especially freeing it must have been in the 1920s and 30s when, after decades of […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The Vasbinder Fountain is a landmark in downtown Mansfield, but it is also a special bookmark among the pages of early memories of Mansfielders. People remember being near it as a child, and the memory is warm with sunny goldfish, and gentle raining […]