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Army of tourists free from pandemic descends upon another attraction: Rome’s Trevi Fountain
In case you haven’t noticed, tourism has been up since the end of pandemic. Way, way up. I’m not sure whether a year of forced isolated unlocked the free spirit in the staycation crowd or whether lots of people have simply...
Viewing Colosseum, Ephesus Theatre and Ohio Stadium through a 2000-year time warp
After two brief stops in the ancient world dazzled me, a peculiar thought lodged in my mind. Rome and the remains of the ancient Greek (now Turkish) city of Ephesus have incredible ruins of massive stadiums/theaters that have survived in recognizable forms. In some...
Anybody who has ever been around Pete Rose has a story, so here’s one of mine
Anybody who has spent any time around Pete Rose has story they can tell you. He produced stories the way he produced hits. He is baseball’s all-time hits leader with 4,256. Memories of Pete cannot be so easily quantified, but there might be million of them. He was a...
The perils of publishing: Trying to sell books from an ‘alcove’ in the spitting rain
I sold one book at the Cambridge (Ohio) Main Street Fall Festival today.This might not seem like much to a person who doesn’t write books, but given the circumstances, it actually was quite impressive.Let me to tell you a little story about some of the perils of...
Finding answers to Harley’s statue problem in a Rose Bowl press release
As chance would have it, a copy of the Rose Bowl press release that announced the erection of Archie Griffin’s statue in Pasadena and a duplicate outside Ohio Stadium in Columbus has come into my possession.I needed to write about that for a couple of reasons. First,...
Archie Griffin gets statue at ‘House that Harley Built’, so is one for Chic coming next?
When fans arrived at Ohio Stadium today for Ohio State’s football season opener against Akron, they were greeted by a statue of Archie Griffin. You’d have to be out of your mind to oppose a statue for Griffin, one of the great players in school history, the only...