Hobart Book Village, the only book town east of the Mississippi, is not too far away, in the northern Catskills. It’s a bucolic, blink-and-you-miss-it hamlet of fewer than 500 souls that was reinvented as a book village in 2005 through the efforts of local entrepreneur, Don Dales.
Charles E. “Ed” Dressler, age 82, was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, on March 20, 1938. He entered Heaven’s gates on Jan. 9, 2021, surrounded by his loving family at home in Xenia. Ed was a longtime resident of Greene County with strong ties to Xenia and Yellow Springs and Fairhaven Church.
A loving father, grandfather, great-grandfather, widower and public servant, Ed never met a stranger, and eagerly conversed with and helped anyone he came to meet. In his free time, Ed enjoyed biking, photography, shooting guns and being with his grandkids, great-grandkids, and pug, Max. He was an advocate for the environment and was a passionate volunteer for the Ohio Rails for Trails.