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Bible from one of Athens’ patriarchs comes home

By admin | Published: March 23, 2012

One of the first things any visitor to Athens maynotice coming into town off of Ohio Rt. 682 is a vintage log house sitting justnear the bridge over the Hocking River. It’s called the Silas Bingham house, and is describedas the oldest house in Athens, having been relocated twice, once from SouthCollege Street to East [...]

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Not a Fairy Tale

By admin | Published: March 20, 2012

When I first saw vintage illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud—Sigmund Freud’s niece—on the book design blog 50 Watts, I was gobsmacked. They’re unnerving, surreal, modern-looking, dark, and dreamy. In them, I saw elements of Henry Darger’s creepy folk art, Barbara Lehman’s Caldecott Award-winning children’s book illustrations, and Aubrey Beardsley’s sinuous Art Nouveau flowers. if Margaret Wise [...]

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Bible takes local man on historic journey

By admin | Published: December 23, 2011

MANATEE — an amazing accident. That’s what Bradenton resident Ric Mock says of the way he found a family Bible written in High German that documented family history on his mother’s side from 1792 to the American Civil War. Mock, 65, who retired as head of the Manatee Memorial Hospital anesthesiology department 10 years ago, [...]

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