Skip Schweitzer
Looking For An Old Beetle
It’s been in the back of my mind for quite a while now, that bucket list thing. Gotta have one more Volkswagen, my all-time...
The Old Road… Ignoring The Elephant In The Room
After reading the July and August summer editions of Classic Car Magazine and, as well, participating in a few good local car shows around...
We’re Playing and Singing Again!
After many, many requests to once again play and sing together as we did before the pandemic, we are resuming our Musical Jam sessions...
The Old Road… Saving Another Model “A”
It was a snowy day, the second one in a row toward the end of April. The temperature hasn’t gotten out of the lower...
Less Than Pretty Nashes
“1950s Nashes were ugly. My father had Nashes. We’d get ‘em real cheap when they were a few years old and drive ‘em a...
What Were You Doing Before The Corona Virus Hit?
Funny you should ask that question. Me, I am just sitting here in my command chair (as my daughter and lady friend call it),...
Jammin’ In Mantua
What actually goes on at an old-time country music jam session? What do they really play? It is held in a local church—maybe it’s...
Tales from the Americana Music woods… Dancing Eyes
Dancing eyes across the room from me; the so energetic, expressive eyes of the lady fiddler darting in sync to the bluegrass music that...
Woodworking Classes By Ernie Conover In Parkman, Ohio
Would you like the opportunity to work for a week with a renown world-class professional woodworker who could teach you anything you ever needed...
Renovating The Center School Building
Mantua - The second annual Sweet heART Auction and Cookie walk will be held from noon to 5 pm February 10 at the Mantua...
Seventy-Something and Rolling: Thoughts While Recuperating From Surgery
I wonder if many of you have had the experience of suffering through a major block of down time while recuperating from a significant...
Hotter Than Hades In South Dakota
Neutrinos: An uncharged elementary particle that has 2 forms associated respectively with electrons and muons and is massless…… Websters Dictionary
It is the week of...
SweetheART Auction a Smashing Success
Mantua - “Community Center? I hope to tell ya! Look at it; look at all the people who are here. There ain’t no more...
Mantua Center School Community Center Transformation Moving Along
Mantua - On Thursday, October 6 the Mantua Township Trustees played to a packed house as the community once again came together in an...
North to Canada Following the St. Lawrence River
We are whale watching in Tadoussac on the St Lawrence but staying 30 miles inland in Petit Saguenay. You will need to look on...
North to Canada Following the St. Lawrence River
We are in the Baie De Laval area south and east of Montreal. It is a shallow lake area caused by the river widening...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A multipart saga of dealing...
Previously I explained how the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) made the decision to stop offering supplemental medical insurance to us retirees and,...
Bean counters try to control us
This is the ongoing story of how the greedy medical prescription drug insurance companies prey on us older retired people, who they presume won’t...
Bean Counters: A multipart saga of dealing with the Medicare Part...
This is the ongoing story of how the greedy medical/ prescription insurance companies prey on us older retired people, who, they presume, won’t...
Progress At Mantua Center School
Mantua - “There is much community energy. We have a need for a community center like this, to let people know what is available,...
Preserving the Past and Looking Forward in Mantua Township
Mantua Twp. - In most ways Mantua Township is probably very much like the majority of other cities, townships and villages going into the...
Collecting Fossils in Thermopiles, Wyoming
Perfect silence. It is 10:15 in the morning and I am on a hill twenty miles north of Thermopolis and a half a mile...
Mantua Center School Building Found To Be Structurally Sound
Mantua - It has now been officially determined that Mantua Center School is indeed structurally safe and basically built like a fortress, putting to...
Mantua’s Center School Funding Grant Moving Forward
Mantua Twp. - The Mantua Township Trustees committed to the elevator project this fine June first morning thanks to Mantua Restoration Society member Cal...
Mantua Restoration Society Recognized for Efforts
The Mantua Restoration Society is a volunteer group of township citizens who value and seek to preserve the historic center of Mantua Township as heritage, inspiration and a focus of township life.
Saving Mantua’s Center School… Fighting In The Trenches
Make no mistake, the whole initiative to Save the Mantua Center School has divided the current township trustees—split them three ways as to what to do with the old school building. This not a new development either, because historically there has been much mud-slinging since the purchase of the school in 2004. The community has demonstrated overwhelming support for saving the school and making it into a community center.
Like A Frog Trying To Ride A Bicycle
“Hey Dad, why don’t you think about taking some courses at Kent State. You are a senior citizen so you could take them free. ...
To Add Hydraulics or Not – Part II
I made the decision to have hydraulic brakes put on my 1930 Model “A”. The task is beyond my capabilities due to my...
Feedback and Food For Thought
We are some six weeks into this topic of 65 and Single Again. I have gotten a great deal of feedback about the articles via e-mail, over the phone, and more often than not, in person. A great many people seem to identify with this predicament of life. The column mirrors their struggle and they are searching for solutions. As well, it has generated a good bit of thought on my part, re-thinking certain things, postulating new, and contemplating where to go next.
