Tombstones
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cornerofmadnessAwesome Autumn Day 2. I went to Old Logan Cemetery for Tombstone Travels. This is up in Hocking Hills and while it would have been better if I were from the area, I think it's a really neat civic money maker.
I almost didn't know. For one it was raining and cold here even though it kept saying 10% of rain and 75. Um... And dad was out to ruin my good mood. He has this terrible habit of starting a discussion but if you don't agree with HIS pronouncement of how the world works he hangs up/walks off on you. And people wonder why I have issues with confrontation.
Anyhow I decided to go and it's SUCH a beautiful drive. I'm sure you know by now I'm not a huge Ohio fan but the Hocking HIlls (about 40-50 miles NE of me) are just beautiful.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evil_little_dog we went this way to that waterfall. Also Renn fest folk, ever see the ads for Ravenswood Castle? Well that's only about 20 miles from my front door. Let me say this, if Logan was closer to work my house hunt would be over. It's a very pretty little town. (one coworker DOES live here but it's like a 65 mile drive to work one way). It has a vibrant air unlike the utter defeat that blankets this area.
What they did is go to the little cemetery (there was a bigger one atop the hill but maybe too big for a foot tour) and they had actors dressed up as the people beneath the tombstones so you got the personal history plus the history of Logan OH. What a neat idea to get people interested in their home town and to raise money at the same time.
There was James Rochester whose father came to Logan after being a tea taster in England. James died in the civil war. Col. William Montgomery, another Civil war vet, told the tell of how Logan's Hocking canal hooked into the Erie canal and what it was like to see it built. Amanda Brown, one of four freed slaves in Logan (this area was BIG in the Underground Railroad) and alleged husband killer, Ida Steinman who died in the 50s and was the first female postmistress in Logan, Margaret Saumenig who was Logan's first librarian and she mentioned something I had never heard of, a 'female comfort station' which was basically a place women could go and wait on their husbands who had business in town, Mrs. Stiers one of the first families in Logan and whose father The Plains in Athens was named for, the 'spirit' of the 650 year old White Oak (glorious) "Scarlet Tanager" a Shawnee who greeted us in Shawnee and added a native American perspective to the talk, especially the history of Tecumesh (which I knew well) and that Logan itself was named after Chief Logan who naturally got screwed by the White settlers. I did not know, however, that Chillicothe just meant the village where the chief was and it moved about and lastly Joahnn Georg Eisele, a German stonecutter who was the great grandfather of Donn Eisele, an Apollo 7 astronaut.
A stray dog joined us. Well I thought she was stray but she ran home to the house at the base of the cemetery so that's good. There was one tombstone that was so different. Instead of the usual weeping willows or hands to heaven it's a profile of an Art Noveau style female, Grecian hair do, laurels in her hair. Sadly it's in slate and mostly gone. I did take lots of pictures but by the time I drove home and ate it was nearly 9 pm and I stopped at KFC for that dinner. Note: I simply can't eat that much grease without getting horribly nauseated but worse, mac and cheese is a thing of my past. SIGH. I've tried it enough now to know that cheap mac and cheese sends my blood sugar into the stratosphere so I'm just too out of it to sort thru the pictures. Sorry.
My arm is now extremely painful. Screw you flu shot (next time I think i'll go back to intramuscular. My body is hating this intradermal).
My friend, ES, sent me this. Cincinnati’s old library Wondering what was wrong with Ohioans that they would tear this down. It's an incredible building.
I almost didn't know. For one it was raining and cold here even though it kept saying 10% of rain and 75. Um... And dad was out to ruin my good mood. He has this terrible habit of starting a discussion but if you don't agree with HIS pronouncement of how the world works he hangs up/walks off on you. And people wonder why I have issues with confrontation.
Anyhow I decided to go and it's SUCH a beautiful drive. I'm sure you know by now I'm not a huge Ohio fan but the Hocking HIlls (about 40-50 miles NE of me) are just beautiful.
evil_little_dog we went this way to that waterfall. Also Renn fest folk, ever see the ads for Ravenswood Castle? Well that's only about 20 miles from my front door. Let me say this, if Logan was closer to work my house hunt would be over. It's a very pretty little town. (one coworker DOES live here but it's like a 65 mile drive to work one way). It has a vibrant air unlike the utter defeat that blankets this area.What they did is go to the little cemetery (there was a bigger one atop the hill but maybe too big for a foot tour) and they had actors dressed up as the people beneath the tombstones so you got the personal history plus the history of Logan OH. What a neat idea to get people interested in their home town and to raise money at the same time.
There was James Rochester whose father came to Logan after being a tea taster in England. James died in the civil war. Col. William Montgomery, another Civil war vet, told the tell of how Logan's Hocking canal hooked into the Erie canal and what it was like to see it built. Amanda Brown, one of four freed slaves in Logan (this area was BIG in the Underground Railroad) and alleged husband killer, Ida Steinman who died in the 50s and was the first female postmistress in Logan, Margaret Saumenig who was Logan's first librarian and she mentioned something I had never heard of, a 'female comfort station' which was basically a place women could go and wait on their husbands who had business in town, Mrs. Stiers one of the first families in Logan and whose father The Plains in Athens was named for, the 'spirit' of the 650 year old White Oak (glorious) "Scarlet Tanager" a Shawnee who greeted us in Shawnee and added a native American perspective to the talk, especially the history of Tecumesh (which I knew well) and that Logan itself was named after Chief Logan who naturally got screwed by the White settlers. I did not know, however, that Chillicothe just meant the village where the chief was and it moved about and lastly Joahnn Georg Eisele, a German stonecutter who was the great grandfather of Donn Eisele, an Apollo 7 astronaut.
A stray dog joined us. Well I thought she was stray but she ran home to the house at the base of the cemetery so that's good. There was one tombstone that was so different. Instead of the usual weeping willows or hands to heaven it's a profile of an Art Noveau style female, Grecian hair do, laurels in her hair. Sadly it's in slate and mostly gone. I did take lots of pictures but by the time I drove home and ate it was nearly 9 pm and I stopped at KFC for that dinner. Note: I simply can't eat that much grease without getting horribly nauseated but worse, mac and cheese is a thing of my past. SIGH. I've tried it enough now to know that cheap mac and cheese sends my blood sugar into the stratosphere so I'm just too out of it to sort thru the pictures. Sorry.
My arm is now extremely painful. Screw you flu shot (next time I think i'll go back to intramuscular. My body is hating this intradermal).
My friend, ES, sent me this. Cincinnati’s old library Wondering what was wrong with Ohioans that they would tear this down. It's an incredible building.
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Date: 2013-10-13 03:38 am (UTC)The cemetery tour sounds really fascinating! I'd love to do something like that here; we do have some interesting people (dead) in Eville.
Glad it wasn't raining.
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Date: 2013-10-13 03:48 am (UTC)It was fascinating. I think it's a neat idea and a nice little money generator. There were 40 in my time slot. Probably almost that before in the 3 pm time slot and the 7 pm time slot probably had over 50 and at 10$ a head well do the math.
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Date: 2013-10-13 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-14 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-13 05:27 pm (UTC)My dad is the exact same way. He has this "everyone is stupid if they don't think like me" mentality. It's pretty tiring.
If I live in OH I would check out the cemetery tour as it seems very neat.
Those are very nice photos of the former library!
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Date: 2013-10-14 12:52 am (UTC)It was fun
isn't that cool. I'm thinking that might work for the rebuilt Central Library