Only by stepping outside before the sunrise
to bid farewell to my lover departing for an early meeting
do I see the beauty of the dawn and its magnificence.
See you on the highway.
Brent
Spring weather has arrived
And, that means spring like activities like a jaunt through the countryside.
See you on the highway.
Brent
Historic Jonah’s Run Baptist Church
Along Ohio’s SR 73, near Harveysburg, is historic Jonah’s Run Baptist Church, established in 1838.
See you on the highway.
Brent
Plain Folk Café, Ohio SR 132
How many times have you traveled down a two-lane highway, passing through a small town, and come upon a place on the side of the road that looks so inviting? You stop, or maybe pass by saying, ‘I’ll stop next time.’
The Plain Folk Café in Pleasant Plain, Ohio, is one of those places. Giving rebirth to the two-room school house, built in 1913, the café serves up coffee, meals and music.
The walls, lined with album covers and musical venues, remind one of the former days when patrons wore tie-dyed shirts and drove VW vans. It’s a little bit of nostalgia, and a little bit modern with the free wifi. About half of those album covers are very familiar, for they reside at my home protecting the vinyl LPs inside.
After passing by so many times, thinking I will stop next time, today was the day I stopped. I’m glad I did. I’ll be back.
Brent
Buckeye Station, US 52, Ohio
Are you one of those drivers who will pull over to read an historical marker along the highway? I am. And, that’s how I found the marker for Buckeye Station.
Buckeye Station was built in 1797, and is the oldest documented structure built in the Northwest Territory of Ohio. Built by General Nathaniel Massie, who founded the first town of Manchester, and a dozen or so more towns including Chillicothe, the first capital of the state of Ohio. Buckeye Station was so named because it was built with the timber from Buckeye trees. Massie was a surveyor and politician.
Buckeye Station sits on the top of the bluff over looking the Ohio River on private property.
Brent