Skip Schweitzer
A Novice Goes To The Daytona 500
Forty cars all in a bumper-to-bumper, wheel-to-wheel tightest of packs deadlock, all going left around a perhaps mile circle that is steeply banked toward...
The North Versus The South
I was presented the opportunity to try out the snowbird lifestyle for this current winter, i.e., getting out of the Ohio cold. I have...
Old Age Irrelevance, Googles got us Covered
I don’t know why it rankled me so when I heard the phrase, but it did. Some throwbacks affect me these days that never...
Where Has The Gearshift Gone?
Nope. It’s not there. The gearshift is definitely not where it always has been, and it’s not between the seats either. Instead there is...
Unexpected push back from a new senior relationship
What do you do when you have finally reached retirement age, and your loving spouse of many years has recently passed away? Perhaps you...
The Senior Circuit………….
UNEXPECTED PUSH BACK FROM A NEW SENIOR RELATIONSHIP
What do you do when you have finally reached retirement age, and your loving spouse of many...
Resurgence or Languishing
Are we on the brink of being put out to pasture? Or rather, are we entering into the most significant period of resurgence we’ve...
Old Yeller at Dunkin’ Donuts
No, I’m not an old yellow dog, but yes, I am old and apparently, I sure do yell.
He said (towards the microphone outside his...
Follow the Signs: Part III
This is part three of the story about running down a Model “A” Ford lead and purchasing the car. Jerry and I most often look...
Follow the Signs: Part II
We are in the bizarre Disneyland of extraordinary peculiarity with the expressed purpose of buying a Model “A” Ford that was acquired by collector...
Follow the Signs: Part I
This is a story about running down a Model “A” Ford lead and possibly being able to purchase the car. We most often look...
Two Mice and a Truck
Oh gosh Henrietta, something is going on in the barn again. The humans have opened up the barn doors, too much light, not used...
Foodtrucks in 1966
Have you noticed the abundance of competing food trucks at events you attend? Is this a machination of the current marketing minds? Excepting for...
My new old Thunderbird time-machine
Driving down the road with no particular destination in mind, I’ve been waiting for a nice fall or winter day like this: clear, 60...
The Old Road: Old cars, old classmates and teen angstSkip’s 1950...
It is 1963. I’m a football player in 11th grade. I’m in English Class at Maple Heights High School. I’m in the first row,...
Let’s Get The Mantua Center School Back On Track
So, who is to blame here? We seem to be a society fixated on pinning the blame on someone or something. The war is...
The Vacant Castle Part II
From 2020 through the greater part of 2023, things ground to a halt due to the COVID plague. Different plagues and famines likewise hit...
The Vacant Castle
This is the continuing story of the Shakespearean-like little hamlet, Mantua Township, Ohio. A comedy of errors, it is loaded with irony, sometimes silliness,...
Mantua’s Stonehenge
Our story begins in 1914 when a new school building was built in Mantua, Ohio. Designed by a world-famous architect to new fireproof standards it is one of the very few examples left in existence—a true Stonehenge of sorts. Life went merrily on as usual for the next 90 years until 2004 when the school system, faced with state requirements consolidated all their holdings and created one new central elementary school. What to do with this magnificent old building? Why, offer it to the Township government for a ridiculously cheap price. They could certainly make good use of it since their current buildings are meager, not in the best condition and God forbid, made of matchstick wood (easily flammable)... Let us continue our transition into modernity.
The Old Road: “I Need A Christmas Tree Truck”
“Could you fellas find me an old truck, actually maybe two or three of them, to put on my Christmas tree farm? They don’t...
The Old Road: First Fishing Day in May 1955
It was a Saturday in May of 1955. I am 9 years old and have been waiting for this day since last fall. Fishing...
When Out On The Lawn There Arose Such A Clatter…
No, no reindeer this time; just a puffed up Scotty barking wildly, defending her territory from a hissing and snarling opossum……….like so many times...
Down the Old Road…The Shape Of Things To Come?
“Cash or card only”; There are at least ten self-check outs at the front of the store… ( If you want to do the...
The Old Road… A Different Slice Of This Life…. A Hoarder...
Wearing my psychologist hat:To recap briefly, we followed up a lead on Model “A”s which led us to southeast Ohio in hill country. There...
The Old Road… A Different Slice Of This Life…. A Hoarder
“I ain’t never throwed nothin’ away. It’s all here on this property from when I was a kid. I got all the tractors that...
The Old Road…. Summer of “64
It was the summer of 1964, the year that I graduated from Maple Heights high school. I was 17, one of the youngest in...
The Old Road…. Special People, Special Organization
There are a lot of special people in this community, unsung heroes that seem to go far out of their way for you and...
Down the Old Road…I Really Want An Antique Automobile
“I’ve been looking at, toying with, buying an old car, antique automobile, that I could take to cruise-ins, antique car shows, or just cruise...
The Old Road… The Tractor Show Goes On
The Geauga County Historical Society Century Village Museum announces the Back In Time Power Show from July 29-31 from 8 AM to 5 PM...
Down the Old Road…Would You Take Us For A Ride?
“You have the coolest old cars. I enjoy reading about them all the time in the Villager. Would you consider taking me, my sister...
