Don't Fear the
Plain Brown Envelope
What were my interests in 1968? I
was too young to worry about the draft. ... I had a fish tank of dubious
quality. My fish, when they weren't eating each other, got white spots and died.
A Summer Thing
Perhaps our story will become
a Lifetime channel movie. We met, lost contact, lived our lives and
then one day look up at the random table at the nursing home and see
each other again.
Of Taylor Ham, Veal Cutlets, Skorpers and Ashtabula
Ashtabula in those days was a lot like
Mayberry on the TV show, good, hard-working people, but with a
different accent. They said I “tocked” funny. I said they “tawked”
funny. We were people divided by a common language.
Memories of Brookdale Soda
When
I was a kid, I called the fruit punch flavor 'blood' and the cherry
pit flavor tickled and chilled my chest after a hard day of play.
Penny Candy from the Corner Store
From the earliest grades to grad schools everywhere,
when that end of school bell rings, children queue,
nickels in hand, to be the first to reach the candy counter...
The Girl from Walnut Beach
The first
time I met her, she was standing at the bottom of the hill on Walnut
Beach. North End Fair was opening that night. Roadies were dragging
poles and tuning engines on the kids’ rides. She watched them and
waited for me. She said hello.
The gunfire is loud and the battle action long and inspiring, proving the discipline and endurance of our armed forces then, and
these authentically outfitted re-enactors now.
Buccino
says he
is working on a collection of his Ashtabula
recollections.
You may also enjoy reading these
local history books
Lake Effect: Coming of Age in Ashtabula, Ohio by Bernadette
Colicchio Dawson, Ted Dieffenbacher, and Dennis Steighner
ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO A Field Guide to the historical natural and
curious treasures of Ohio's largest county
Hidden History of Ashtabula County
by Carl E. Feather
Ashtabula
Harbor, Ohio – A History of the World’s Greatest Iron Ore Receiving
Port
by Carl E. Feather
Ashtabula - Images of America by David Borsvold and Ashtabula Great
Lakes Marine Coast Guard Memorial Museum
Ashtabula: People and Places - Images of America
by Evelyn Schaeffer
and Richard E. Stoner
Ashtabula Firefighting - Images of America
by Eric A. Johnson
Geneva - Images of America
by Susan Bradburn
Geneva on the Lake: A History of Ohio's First Summer Resort
by Wendy Koile
Conneaut - Images of America by David B. Owens
Railroading in Conneaut Ohio - Images of Rail by David Borsvold
The Way of the River: Kellandale Wood by Shan L Spyker
By
Ashtabula native, Connie Schultz:
Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths
. . . And His Lovely Wife: A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside
the Man
Read her work online
Follow her on Facebook
About her Pulitzer Prize in commentary
About Connie Schultz
Belt magazine
Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology
by Anne Trubek,
Richey Piiparinen, Editors
Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology
Jacqueline Marino, Will Mille, Editors
The Cincinnati Anthology
by Zan McQuade (Author, Editor)
A Detroit Anthology by Anna Clark (Author, Editor)
The Pittsburgh Anthology (Edited by Eric Boyd)
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
by
David Giffels
Visit
Belt
Publishing to view the latest titles.
Cherry
Blossom Press
Sister Dressed Me Funny
This
Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter
Nutley Notables, Volume Two
Military History
Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War
Belleville Sons Honor Roll -
Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
Nutley
Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
WW2 Letters Home
From The South Pacific
Photography
Photo Books
Jersey City Snapshots
Old Spices
Photo
Galleries
Nutley, NJ, Books
Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War
Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here Anymore and other essays
Nutley Notables - Volume One
Nutley Notables Volume Two
Nutley
Snapshots In Plain View
Nutley
Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
WW2 Letters Home
From The South Pacific
Yountakah Country
- Nutley Old and New
Belleville, NJ, Books
A Father's Place - An Eclectic
Collection
Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War
Belleville Sons Honor Roll -
Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at
the Same Time
Sister Dressed Me Funny
WW2 Letters Home
From The South Pacific
Poetry Collections
American Boy: Pushing Sixty
Canned
One Morning in Jersey City
Retrieving Labrador Days
Sixteen Inches On Center
Sometimes I Swear In Italian
Voices on the Bus
Yountakah Country
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