History in the Hills: Some local gypsy lore | News, Sports, Jobs
Director of operations at Historic Fort Steuben and the Steubenville Visitors Center. It’s funny how simple statements can spark or jog a memory of certain events. It is one of the wonders of our humanity that I seem to take advantage of quite often. I was in a situation like that this past week when I was thinking about this article. My wife mentioned to me one morning that she had a dream we were traveling around the country like gypsies asking for a piece of paper to write on. That reminded me of one of my absolute favorite pieces of Ohio Valley lore, that of the gypsies who wandered our...