We tip our sun visor to the Kohler Foundation, which has reportedly purchased the abandoned Hartman Rock Garden in Springfield, Ohio, and plans to restore it to its former lumpy glory.
John Grate lived to be 103. His eternal memorial only lived to be 59. Grate was Ohio’s last living Civil War veteran. He died in 1949 in the town of Atwater, was buried in the local cemetery, and had a six-foot-tall marble monument erected in his memory. It was destroyed in March of this year, […]
The exact location of an attraction on wheels is always problematic. Noble creations such as the world’s largest watermelon slice suffer for their mobility. They are often locked away in a barn or a municipal garage, hidden from the public eye. Thus it is with caution that we pass along news of the new home […]
When people grow to love a certain big rock, they can get a little possessive. And if someone tries to move that rock, look out! Three cases currently making headlines illustrate that point. In Des Moines, Iowa, stands a 16-ton boulder with a plaque honoring the first Iowan to die in World War I. Last […]
The date: August 30. The place: the parking lot next to Freedom Worship Baptist Church in Blanchester, Ohio. The you-don’t-want-to-miss-this event: Evel Knievel’s former bodyguard jumping the World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab on a motorcycle, then crashing through the burning Gates of Hell! We were in Blanchestor earlier this month. The Church’s pastor, Jim Rankin, told […]
