Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. A front page article in The Jeffersonian out of Cambridge, Ohio this week noted I said in this fast paced society of ours, youth are often being shorted emotionally, with both parents off working and … Continue reading
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Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Stumped at M.R. Mack’s restaurant in downtown Logan, Ohio early this morning and talked with Logan Daily News columnist Edgar “Bud” Simpson. He said growing up in northern Maine he watched as clear cutting and … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Stumped in Colleen’s Place Restaurant in Lisbon, Ohio this morning. Local contractor Bill Martin told me with a lot of lumber going to Iraq for reconstruction, it has hurt him because lumber prices here have … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. At the Algonquin Festival in Petersburg, Ohio, today, story teller Ralph Borror did an imitation of Abraham Lincoln. “Abe” said a defining moment for him came as a youth when he happened upon a Slave … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Liz and I sorted through more state election forms back in Bluffton, our hometown, yesterday. I then headed to Bowling Green, Ohio, for a talk to the Knights of Columbus there. I commended the group … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. During Mass this morning at St. Frances de Sales Church in Newark, Ohio, the priest said that St. Peter Claver spent 38 years ministering to Black slaves. During campaign 2000, I told a Pittsburgh, Kansas … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Stumped with a morning group at the Pelican Coffee Shop in Bucyrus early today. There were some 25 men with, I was told, an average age of 80. (The group has been meeting since 1958 … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Did a phone-in interview on the “Tom & Beth” morning radio show in Fostoria. Tom started with: “Ladies and gentlemen… we have a ‘Tom & Beth’ exclusive…” Tiffin’s Advertiser Tribune ran a front page story … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. We did a whistle-stop event in downtown Bowling Green, Ohio today and drew, oh, a few less people than John Kerry had drawn when he was in Bowling Green the week before. Go figure. Toledo … Continue reading
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. I met with Bowling Green State University graduate student Jeff Moore today who explained he was recently on a “Cultural Emersion” trip to The Bronx with BGSU sociology professor Dr. Bill Thompson. Moore said, among … Continue reading