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The Way I See It: History of libraries in the area has many chapters (opens the original)
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The Washington County Public Library on Fifth Street in Marietta. The Wood County Public Library on Emerson Avenue in Parkersburg. The Washington County Public Library on Fifth Street in Marietta. The Wood County Public Library on Emerson Avenue in Parkersburg. Today we have almost an unlimited amount of information available to us. Much of it at our fingertips and much of it for free. Libraries are important today as the keepers of volumes of information and services that are provided to citize
The Way I See It: Early apple growing in Ohio had lasting effect (opens the original)
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Any school kid growing up in the 1960s was sure to know about the legend of Johnny Appleseed. The barefoot man walked around the country planting apple seeds as he went. The true story of John Chapman and his tie to Marietta and the apple industry in Ohio is a little more complicated than the legend. Native Americans, like nearly all Americans, loved the delicious taste of apples and other fruits. They exchanged seeds with other tribes and with white European settlers in Canada and New England.
The Way I See It: History of libraries in the area has many chapters (opens the original)
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Today we have almost an unlimited amount of information available to us. Much of it at our fingertips and much of it for free. Libraries are important today as the keepers of volumes of information and services that are provided to citizens at no cost. The early versions of libraries in our area operated with a subscription model to get books in the hands of patrons. The first library in Washington County, and therefore Ohio, was in Belpre. Colonel Israel Putnam had brought volumes of books that
The Way I See It: Fall is upon us, have a nice trip (opens the original)
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Since it is now fall, I thought it would be a good time to talk about falling. Leaves are not the only thing that can hit the ground -- so can clumsy people. I should know, I have been hitting the ground for years. I have been tripping over things my whole life, sometimes on a national stage. Some have been work related, others because I did something stupid. A few days before Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States he visited Marietta to make a speech at Marietta College. He la
The Way I See It: Left handers face a lifetime of annoying challenges (opens the original)
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On Aug. 13 the nation paused to reflect on the hardships imposed on the 10% of the population that will be celebrating National Left Handers Day. I fully understand that 89.4 % of the people reading this are likely snickering right now because they use the "right" hand to do everything. Every left hander will tell you the same thing. We have spent a lifetime adapting to life in the right-handed world. There was a time when teachers would try to get students who used their left hand to write to s
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