Ann Gasbarre retires popular Wooster history column Bits and Pieces
She has contributed to the history of Wooster as a five-decade employee of The Daily Record. Ann Gasbarre has ended her column.
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She has contributed to the history of Wooster as a five-decade employee of The Daily Record. Ann Gasbarre has ended her column.
Several years ago, former Orrville High School teacher Ned Hostetler wrote about the various U.S. presidents who traveled through Orrville. “The Sept. 7, 1880, edition of the Orrville paper,” Hostetler said, “printed a small item about President Rutherford B. Hays, his wife, Lucy, and General William T. Sherman traveling west through town. About a month later, on Oct. 12, 1880, a small item told about former President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia, traveling east through Orrville. “The year 1912 was an amazing one for Orrville residents,” Hostetler pointed out. “All the maj...