Dreaming of a Time Capsule<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I would like to find a window to the past,<\/p>\n
a capsule of evidences of the joys and sorrows,<\/p>\n
the ordinary and extraordinary days on this plot of land,<\/p>\n
part of the Western Reserve Firelands of Northern Ohio.<\/p>\n
We only know Jack\u2019s growing up years from his perspective.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When the Polish professor talked Jack\u2019s Dad into selling Polish candies<\/p>\n
in addition to the apples and peaches at the Firelands Country Store,<\/p>\n
could the future life of the store be imagined?<\/p>\n
The ups (appreciative customers!) of providing candies and wines and cheeses and teas<\/p>\n
and downs \u2013 how the Midway Mall changed shopping for everyone.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When Mr. Smith was still selling quarry stone everywhere he was sent,<\/p>\n
he missed little Jack\u2019s early school morning routine and Jack\u2019s zeal for arrowheads.<\/p>\n
So he brought home a cigar box full, and planted a dozen in the field across the street.<\/p>\n
Little Jack was happy to go arrowhead hunting with Dad that afternoon.<\/p>\n
Dad steered little Jack toward the field, but Jack intuitively found a couple beauties \u201cover here.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When the owners before the Smith\u2019s built the home<\/p>\n
did they imagine the small room at the front of the house–<\/p>\n
being an office for homework and other day-dreams?<\/p>\n
Did the large living room always hold music, especially classical music,<\/p>\n
from the Harpsichord kit put together by two unlike brothers — an engineer and a poet?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When even earlier men and women roamed this wild early land \u2013 were they content?<\/p>\n
Did apple trees grow abundantly back then, too? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Did the wild asparagus grow back then, too?<\/p>\n
An Erie village is well known to the local Archeological Society some miles west,<\/p>\n
and while several historical reports are convinced that Adenas were further south in Ohio,<\/p>\n
this land was a hunting ground for them, as evidenced by arrowheads and other artifacts.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A time capsule?\u00a0 \u00a0I can only dream — filling in the details around the facts that we know.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
By Nancy Ann Smith,<\/p>\n
Amherst, Ohio\u00a0 (historically known as the “Firelands of the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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