Chronology of Akron cereal mills in 1800s
A brief chronology of Akron’s cereal mills of the 1800s:• Stone Mill (1832) — Foot of Mill Street near Ash Street. Built by Dr. Eliakim Crosby. Five-story building along the Ohio & Erie Canal.•...
View ArticleLocal history: Akron milling lore separates wheat from chaff
Downtown Akron was the same old grind.Horse-drawn wagons brimming with golden grain lined up along deeply rutted roads in the 19th century. Farmers from the distant countryside brought their harvest to...
View ArticleLocal history: Cuyahoga Falls police chief answers 50-year-old letter
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Police Chief Tom Pozza has received an unusual letter from the past.The letter was composed 50 years ago when Pozza was only 4 years old. Its writer has been dead since 1999.Menzo D....
View ArticleLocal history: Sugar Ray Robinson reigns over Akron in 1947
Haunted by a personal tragedy, Sugar Ray Robinson easily could have thrown in the towel. Instead, the world welterweight champion traveled to Akron, laced up his gloves and rose to the occasion....
View ArticleLocal history: Barberton singer’s heartache inspires country classic
George Morgan was a singing sensation in the privacy of his car. He could drive to work in the predawn gloom and warble to his heart’s content. Humming along to the engine one dreary morning in 1947,...
View ArticleLocal history: Coventry girl’s slaying recalled on 50th anniversary
Marion Brubaker probably would have been a grandmother by now.She didn’t get to go to high school, date boys, attend college, find a job, get married or have children.She didn’t get to grow up.Fifty...
View ArticleLisa Abraham: Sharing recipes keeps memories alive
I’ve written before about the importance of sharing recipes and not taking secret recipes to the grave.Recently, though, I’ve come up with another reason for sharing them: immortality.When a recipe...
View ArticleLocal history: Union general’s cow is unlikely heroine of Civil War
You can lead a cow to battle, but you can’t make it fight.Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett, the first superintendent of Akron Public Schools, is a central figure in one of the strangest tales from the Civil...
View ArticleLocal history: Scandal rocks Akron faith healer’s church in 1930s
Akron faith healer David A. Messner’s congregation was doing just fine until THAT WOMAN arrived in the 1930s.A dark-haired beauty with brown eyes, Madelyn Messner was 50 years younger than the...
View ArticleHaymaker Farmer’s Market
Haymaker Farmers’ Market Location: Franklin Avenue and Summit Street, under the state Route 59 Haymaker Overpass, Kent.Hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, rain or shine (live music, 10 a.m. to...
View ArticleHaymaker Farmers’ Market celebrates 20 years
KENT: On a gravel path under the Route 59 overpass, where Franklin Avenue meets Summit Street, they’ve been gathering for 20 years. Long before local was the trend in food; long before the words...
View ArticleLocal history: Eerie voice in sky greets Akron in 1927
Somewhere in the darkness, high above the glow of the city, a distant voice rang out from the clouds.“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience,” it crackled. “This is Graham...
View ArticleLocal history: Bad day at work leads to fame and fortune
Ever have one of those days?Winfield Sheehan certainly did — and it became the defining moment of his life.The 18-year-old sales clerk was working alone during lunch hour when an Akron housewife...
View ArticleLocal history: Akron bomber crash remembered 70 years later
Leaves rustle in the wind along a rolling slope off Triplett Boulevard.The quiet bluff, which overlooks Akron Fulton International Airport and the Akron Airdock to the east, bears no noticeable scars...
View ArticleLocal history: Akron nun’s life filled with daring adventure
A New York art critic once said Sister Matilda “painted like a man.”She took it as a compliment.“I don’t paint with a woman’s touch,” she admitted.The Catholic nun, who was blessed to have an avocation...
View ArticleLocal history: Mysterious man stands in cemetery
In the cold darkness of the old cemetery, two glowing eyes gazed out from the gravestones.Medina County motorists noticed the eerie stare as they drove past Sharon Center Cemetery at night along Ridge...
View ArticleLocal history: Akron’s devilish rumor causes national scandal in 1970s
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its big, floppy clown shoes.In the late 1970s, McDonald’s officials faced a public-relations nightmare over a silly rumor...
View ArticleLocal history: Old voting booths are worth recounting
Democracy glowed brightly next to potbellied stoves in one-room shacks.Propped up on concrete blocks, wood-frame buildings with tar-paper roofs served as voting booths for the better part of the 20th...
View ArticleLocal history: Death stalks corridors of Boston Heights hotel in 1967
A silent killer stalked the corridors of a crowded hotel in Boston Heights, creeping from room to room during a night of unexpected horror.Hundreds of guests gathered Nov. 18, 1967, at the Yankee...
View ArticleLocal history: Former stewardess remembers adventures in travel
Sonya Heckman recalls how an advertisement transformed her life.As an Akron teenager in the 1950s, she loved reading fashion magazines, flipping through the glossy pages and admiring the latest styles....
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