As a special treat looking forward to Saturday’s Ohio State at Michigan game in Ann Arbor, we asked Lexington’s Mike Clapper to recite famed Ohio author James Thurber’s poem “When Chic Harley Got Away.” Clapper is the public address announcer at Lexington High School sporting events and recently retired after 12 years as the voice […]
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Chic Harley inspired James Thurber to poetic prose
COLUMBUS — There was probably no bigger fan of Ohio State’s three-time All-American Chic Harley than the famed author and humorist James Thurber. The internationally-recognized Ohio humorist was so taken with his fellow Buckeye in that pre-World War I era that he penned a poem, “When Chic Harley Got Away.” There’s a good reason for […]