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Hartman’s Rock Garden For Sale

Monday, July 21st, 2008

For an asking price of $57,900 — less than the cost of a high-end sedan or pickup truck — you could be the owner of H.G. “Ben” Hartman’s yard of miniature buildings and sometimes-enigmatic sculptures. The real estate page with the offer even features a nice photo of Ben’s mighty castle, and a tip of […]

Lake Erie’s Roadside Monster

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

For years, sailors on Lake Erie have reported seeing a long, thin creature swimming in its murky waters. Is it a prehistoric monster? A floating log? Leftover garbage from when the Cuyahoga River caught fire? Len Tieman, who owns the lakeside Prehistoric Forest dinosaur park in Marblehead, Ohio, is squarely in the monster camp. His […]

Inventors Hall of Fame No Perpetual Motion Machine

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

A story in the Beacon Journal confirms what we had suspected: the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Akron, Ohio, has wound down to full stop. Its web site skirts the issue by talking of “construction,” but it’s the construction of the middle school that’s being built where the Hall of Fame used to […]

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