Category: Fairview-Park-OH

Essays referencing the years living in Fairview Park, OH. (1937-1984)

Content Notes — MWD Essays

Family dog Buttons. c. 1950.

Content Notes and Revisions — MWD Essays Editorial History Revision history and technical notes WordPress and Grammarly interaction nightmare. WordPress design flaws. Revision History 1993-1998 Hand-written essay drafts transcribed into Microsoft Word 2.0. 2000 Original Word 2.0 document partially converted to Microsoft FrontPage 98. 2008-2009 Converted to W3C XHTML compliant Microsoft ASP.NET website. 2009 Several…… Continue reading Content Notes — MWD Essays

The Storm

Sunrise Bitmap by LAD, c.1996.

Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, parades, and fireworks were scheduled for every municipal park in the Greater Cleveland area, and the greatest… Continue reading The Storm

The Garden

Family dog Buttons. c. 1950.

Events circa 1937-1972. Written April 1994. In 1937, the Robert Dials moved, with Robert and Dolly, their two children, from the City of Cleveland to the Village of Fairview. Fairview lay just beyond Rocky River’s Lorain Avenue Bridge, offering an escape from the city to the country. It was quite a change for all of us.…… Continue reading The Garden

Charley’s Pets

Family dog Buttons. c. 1950.

1 Events circa 1943-1963. Written January 1992. Two-year-old Charley and Skippy the dog sat in a corner of the kitchen swapping biscuits. Charles was eating the dog bone and Skippy the aseptic Arrowroot biscuit meant for the sterile diet of a baby. At that moment, I gave up sterilizing the bottles and utensils Charley used. Skippy,…… Continue reading Charley’s Pets

The Passport

Wertenberger - Himmelright wedding, 1899. Himmelright family just before MWD’s mother and father were married. The women in the front row are Ada, Mellie, and their grandmother. The women in the back row are Dillie [the bride], her mother, and Alice. [Grandpa Fuhrman’s rocking chair, on the left side of the porch, is in my bedroom today (2020). CED ed.] Photo credit: Lloyd Sechrist, Sechrist family archives.

September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.