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Loyalty is a one-way street
Woke up this morning to a story about Cam Atkinson having hosted a “Skate with Cam” charity event in the OhioHealth Ice Haus on Saturday, despite the fact the 32-year-old forward was traded by the Blue Jackets to the Philadelphia Flyers for former Jackets draftee...
Now we know exact locations of trading post, Fort Loramie
My fascination with discovering the exact location of historic events isn't new. The first time I read "The Frontiersman," Allan W. Eckert's classic about the Midwest in the late eighteenth century, I became hooked on his use of footnotes to let the reader know where...
A visit to Fort Clatsop sure beats spending a winter there
The completion of a 10-day Oregon trip left me with a few more thoughts on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their 35-member Corps of Discovery. The explorers and their group encountered aggressive grizzly bears, angry rivers, ravenous mosquitoes, hostile natives...
Hanging with Lewis & Clark
Because of an upcoming trip to Oregon, I pulled The Journals of Lewis and Clark off one of my bookshelves with the idea of leafing through it and reading a few selected passages. I’m 180 pages into it now and showing no signs of stopping, even though I’ve already read...
How much for that bridge?
My first visit to the Roche de Boeuf interurban railroad bridge across the Maumee River occurred last year while I was working on Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest. The bridge, which looks like it belongs in a photograph of the ruins of Berlin...
Death of Tecumseh Motel
When I first identified chapters sites for Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest, Old Chillicothe, the once-important Shawnee settlement three miles north of modern Xenia, Ohio, was an obvious candidate, This was where prominent Shawnee leader...