Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1800s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. The books are available from Lintern for $25 a set, tax and shipping included. Each book is about […]
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Stewart’s Root Beer stand began in 1924 in Mansfield
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. MANSFIELD — The story has it, that in 1924 a young city school teacher named Frank Stewart wanted to augment his teaching salary by selling his own Root Beer during the summer. As far as American history goes, the product known as Stewart’s Root […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 14: Much Money
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1800s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. The books are available from Lintern for $25 a set, tax and shipping included. Each book is about […]
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Getting the news to Mansfield: Part II
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. Let’s reconsider our Richland County pioneers from 1813, in contrast to the media that made its advent during the 1920s. The forested world in which the settlers lived offered them a quiet environment that we can no longer conceive of in our time. Aside […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 13: Hide and Seek
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1800s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. The books are available from Lintern for $25 a set, tax and shipping included. Each book is about […]
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Getting the news to Mansfield: Part I
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. The evolution of media access in Richland County is the story of how connectivity has magnified in a broader and wider web, while simultaneously becoming more personal and unique. In 1813, if you wanted other people to know what you had to say, your […]
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Richland Chronicles Chapter 12: Letter From a Goat
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series which runs each Thursday morning titled the Richland Chronicles, by author Paul Lintern. It is set in the 1800s and tells the story of Richland County through the eyes of young people. The books are available from Lintern for $25 a set, tax and shipping included. Each book is about […]
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This Fredericktown-area man launched Mark Twain
MOUNT VERNON — Even the greatest talents of the world need a break to get started, and the American icon we know as Mark Twain got his first big break courtesy of a man born in Knox County. Though this man still commands a modest measure of renown today, few remember him by his original […]
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Mansfield history includes the Titanic and much more
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. When I was in high school here in Mansfield, most of my classmates couldn’t wait to get out of this town. To them, this was the last place you would want to be caught after you had the opportunity to leave. But I […]
