Boola! Boola! Ashtabula, Ohio
By Anthony Buccino
Collected writings referencing
vacations
and visits to the northeastern Ohio city on Lake Erie
Don't Fear the
Plain Brown EnvelopeWhat 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.
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.
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 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.
D-Day Landing Reenactment, Lake Erie, Conneaut, Ohio
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, meanwhile, check out the Ohio photo galleries below.
Photo Galleries, Ohio
Photo Gallery: Covered Bridges of Ashtabula, Ohio
Photo Gallery: The Cove, Geneva on the Lake
Photo Gallery: Eddie's Grill, Geneva on the Lake
Photo Gallery: Willoughby, Ohio
Ashtabula County Visitors Bureau
Ashtabula Covered Bridge Festival
Ohio's Historic Covered Bridges: Ashtabula County is a Road Trip Gem
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Hidden History of Ashtabula County by Carl E. Feather
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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
Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths
. . . And His Lovely Wife: A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
About her Pulitzer Prize in commentary
A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection
Rambling Round - Inside and Outside
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Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in
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Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings
This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter
Nutley Notables, Volume One
Gas Stations
Harrison Next
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New Orleans In Plain View
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Nutley Snapshots in Plain View
Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War
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WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific
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Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War
Belleville Sons Honor Roll -
Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom
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Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at
the Same Time
WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific
Anthony Buccino
Essays, photography, military history, more
New Jersey author Anthony Buccino's stories of the 1960s, transit coverage and other writings earned four Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism awards.
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