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Community News Dec 23, 2012
Elmer Flair, Flair Cleaners, says that ever since the Church of the Lost Lamb changed communion cups he’s seen a marked increase in neckties with grape juice stains and suggests men throw their tie...
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Sycamore Shadows News Dec 30, 2012
Sycamore Shadows News from Everyone’s Favorite Small Town Doc Ghesslet would like the public to remain aware of mental illness, keeping in mind that a significant percentage of the population suffers...
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Fly Fishing with Curly
FLY FISHING WITH CURLY, or the dangers of too much equipment All illustrations © 2014 Craig Wetzel When Curly Dowd decided he wanted to learn fly fishing, apprehension rippled through our small...
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Little Beaver Bridge
LITTLE BEAVER BRIDGE: Our Forgotten Village Craig Wetzel In the warm months, it is hard to believe a village was once there. But in early winter when the vegetation is dead and snow has yet to come,...
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Getting Fast in Georgetown: Capt. Meriwether Lewis and the Low Ohio
September 5, 1803 At daybreak the fog lay heavily on the river as it had nearly every morning since Capt. Meriwether Lewis and his party of eleven soldiers and hired hands left Pittsburgh six days...
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Squirrel Migration: Happy Fat Times
Squirrel Migration: Happy Fat Times Meriwether Lewis, descending the Ohio River to meet William Clark before heading west to discovery, fame, and eventual suicide, couldn’t quit writing of the...
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Letterpress Printing: My Collaboration with Keystone Printing
A Quote from Peter Pan printed in letterpress at Keystone Printing, E. Liverpool, OH Letterpress printing has always fascinated me. The idea of holding words in your hands – words as tangible objects...
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Peter Pan Neverland Map
My Neverland map has been printed in a new edition of Peter Pan, part of the Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions series. You may find the book here on the Barnes & Noble website. Prints of the...
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Sycamore Shadows Historical Marker
Historical Sign I carry a camera with me wherever I go and though I am no photographer, I do snap an interesting photo on occasion. This sign is located at “the bend” just before the covered bridge...
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Sotty Hoff’s Pub
It is hard to imagine Sycamore Shadows without Sotty Hoff’s Pub at the end of Short Street, next to the park. It was built as an inn circa 1825, a log cabin with a puncheon floor and flaps for...
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American Sycamore: So Curious an Apartment
American Sycamore: So Curious an Apartment The Pringle brothers were weary of the French & Indian War, nor did they care for the uneventful life of a soldier on garrison duty at Fort Pitt. Had they...
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John Spear, Printer
John Spear Grave, Long’s Run Cemetery, Calcutta, Ohio In the shadow of Long’s Run Presbyterian Church, beneath an epitaph that the elements have rendered illegible, lies the body of printer John Spear....
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The Man with the Magic Camera
George Edward Doyle: the man with the magic camera C. Pershing Dowd In this water-damaged photograph, dated October 1896, Doyle proudly displays his prey, a columbian rail. His journals suggest he...
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Ohio’s First Covered Bridge
All that remains of Ohio’s first covered bridge is the western abutment. Just outside the left frame of this photo is Sandy & Beaver Canal lock 55. (Photo by Craig Wetzel) Despite the common vision...
View ArticleBuster Keaton Sleeps at the Sanderling Hotel
The Sanderling Hotel was built at the bottom of Sycamore Hill in 1860, located next door to Burson’s Hardware, “Big Bull” Burson, Proprietor. (I won’t divulge how he got the nickname.) Anyway, it...
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Keen’s Gas Station
From the Imaginactory Archives This gas station, the first and only one in town, was owned by Ebenezer Keen (Nippy Keen’s grandfather) and located on Sycpen Rd., just before the Pennsylvania line....
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Fly Fishing with Curly
FLY FISHING WITH CURLY, or the dangers of too much equipment All illustrations © 2014 Craig Wetzel When Curly Dowd decided he wanted to learn fly fishing, apprehension rippled through our small...
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Feature: Sycamore Shadows
Somewhere just north of East Liverpool, Ohio, several miles south of Toad Hall, and a day’s walk from Neverland, lies the idyllic town of Sycamore Shadows. You will find it nestled in a shaded valley,...
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You turn the bend, ease up the ramp, the car rises, and it’s suddenly dark. The timbers rattle and shake for 132 feet, and then you pop into the sunlight and the town is in view. I wish I could...
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The John Doe Statue
I think it was Winnie the Pooh who said that nudity, once familiar, loses its impact. A bridegroom who cheers and claps as his bride undresses will, in a few years, gaze upon his naked spouse with the...
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