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Ohio Civil War Show The 2021 Ohio Civil War Show will take place 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and again 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7. Children 11 and younger are admitted for free. Visitors are asked to wear face masks. Hand sanitizing stations will be available throughout the grounds. Those who arrive at the fairgrounds will be greeted by an eight-cannon battery. Alongside them will be other artillery pieces, such as mortars, limbers and caissons. The show includes a 1776 Revolutionary War living history encampment that will feature military drills, musket firing and colonial period camp...

Steven Glovsky Take advantage of your opportunities.  Many, many years ago my wife and I hurried into Paris and up the Eiffel Tower on a scheduled four-hour layover coming home from Egypt and Israel. The airline would have had us just wait in the terminal, but It was my first time in France. Robert Frost’s poem "The Road Not Taken" suggests that “knowing how way leads on to way," you can’t be sure that you’ll “ever come back." I made a plan and it worked. Landing mid-morning, we hurried off the plane. There was no delay in customs. We showed our passports and were out the door...

They never saw their age as a limitation. But what about the rest of us? Waiting in the lobby, your name is called. A nurse shows you to the examination room. Annual checkup. "How's it going, young man? How are you doing today, young lady?" What is it about those greetings that rub the wrong way? Patronizing? Saccharine? A thinly veiled sympathy card in acknowledgement of this disease called ageing? The reduction of the older individual to a generic? Imagine greeting President Joe Biden, Dolores Huerta, Harry Belafonte, Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson or Jane Fonda in this manner? (See S...

Anyone who reads this space regularly knows that I am fascinated by what makes us, us. And what makes me, me. Stories, history, perspective, and faith are just four of the factors that mix to make us who we are from the individual to the whole of humanity. Some things bring nearly everyone together — celebrations, drinks, food, and expressions of friendship and love. When it comes to our identity as a nation or a culture, poetry may be the greatest reservoir. With just one line or verse a poem can call to mind whole stories. Sometimes, usually in the form of a song, a poem can take us to...

By Larry Cothren Someone once asked how I come up with ideas for a weekly column. That is always a challenge, but my dog actually helps out. Many of my ideas for this space over the last four years have come while taking Roxy, our gentle and adorable pitbull, on 30-minute walks in our neighborhood. There’s something about a tranquil stroll that helps the creative process, particularly during morning hours. An early walk during springtime, with the morning sun not yet at full display and birds filling the air with their music, is one of those pleasures of life that never grows...