Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 4, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1830s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the fourth in a series. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune. Volume II was Isaac and […]
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Then & Now: Grand Boulevard in Shelby 1900
When Grand Boulevard was first staked out in 1895 all of the residential dreams of shady urban grandeur were somewhere in the future because the place was a big flat empty hayfield. Shortly after this photo was taken in 1900 however, there were 300 trees planted to transform the stark allotment into a majestic neighborhood. […]
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American novelist Dawn Powell and her portrait of Shelby
Brilliant writer She has been called America’s best comic novelist (Gore Vidal) and America’s most brilliant satirist (Wall Street Journal) in recent years, but during her lifetime she had a hard time finding readers. Especially when she wrote about Shelby, Ohio. When opening the covers of Dawn Powell’s Shelby books it is well to keep […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 7: A Contest
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 4, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1830s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the fourth in a series. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune. Volume II was Isaac and […]
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Then & Now: The lodge at Fleming Falls resort 1917
If you had taken a little summer excursion to the top of Fleming Falls 100 years ago this is the resort inn and lodge you would have found. Located off Fleming Falls Road, the one time resort area is a church camp today called Camp Mowana, operated by the Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in Ohio. The […]
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Mansfield actor’s epic career helped America heal after the Civil War
Frank Nail stepped into his costume and makeup 6,400 times on stages all across the northern U.S. during the decades from 1872 to 1911. His play was one of the most widely produced and highly familiar pieces of theater in the 19th century. Literally millions of people saw it, and many thousands took part in […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 6: Stuffy and Soggy
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 4, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1830s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the fourth in a series. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune. Volume II was Isaac and […]
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Then & Now: 99 Park Avenue West: the Tucker building
It’s not difficult to locate this site today: there is a big 99 on the building to identify it on the street for the various offices inside. For a number of generations it was known as the Tucker building. Originally it was constructed as the Grafton Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the late 1940s. In 1966 the […]
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The summer when a Mansfield garage band went nationwide: 1967
It was the Summer of Love, so presumably everybody had a lot of love; but in 1967 everybody in America also had a Little Bit O’ Soul. That was the year when a few local kids who loved Rock & Roll rose up and took their band out of the garage and into the radios […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 5: A Shot at Learning
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles Volume 4, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1830s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. This is the fourth in a series. Volume 1 was Amelia Changes Her Tune. Volume II was Isaac and […]