10/29/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. This morning we drove into Cleveland for a whistle-stop in front of the West Side Market on the near west side. As we pulled up, a Cleveland documentary crew just happened to be out in … Continue reading →
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10/23/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Last night our kids, and some of the other neighborhood kids, raked a big, and I mean big, pile of leaves. Then for about an hour, we developed what I’m sure will become a new … Continue reading →
10/17/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Talked to a Sunday School class (7th and 8th graders) at St. Thomas Moore Church in Bowling Green, Ohio today about the famine and violence affecting youth their age in the Sudan currently. I asked … Continue reading →
10/14/04
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 →
10/10/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Spent the day with Tim and Ann Miller in Lisbon, Ohio. They have a small family farm they are raising their seven children on. And they practice “apostolic farming.” They look at farming as a … Continue reading →
10/8/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Was interviewed by the editor of the newspaper in Cadiz, Ohio, today. I said we saw one of the biggest travesties in America is the demise of the small family farm, because farmers are not … Continue reading →
10/6/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Talked with Phil Zeber, owner of the Rock Creek Country Store in Rock Creek, Ohio. He’s had the store for almost three years, but can’t get a bank loan because he’s just barely breaking even, … Continue reading →
9/24-29/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Did a circle tour of Grand Lake St. Mary, the largest inland lake in Ohio. We appeared on the front pages of St. Mary’s and Celinas newspapers, then headed to Coldwater where I stumped with … Continue reading →
9/21/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In Springfield, Ohio this morning I talked with John Polley, 18, a used tire shop manager. He walked with a limp and said his knee “was hurting bad from lifting sem-tires.” But he had no … Continue reading →
9/20/04
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Gave a talk at a “Farm Festival” on Sunday at Dan and Nancy Kramer’s organic farm in Yorkshire, Ohio. I said one of the first things I’d do at the White House was tear out … Continue reading →