As the family story goes Steve’s cousin Hilda lived in an orphanage for a few years after her parents’ death then lived “with relatives in Lima, Ohio” before marrying in Toledo where she and Ed spent the rest of their lives. We’re curious as to who these relatives might be so we decided to do a bit of investigation while we were in the area. We had a pleasant time in the public library and in the genealogy department where Angel tried to help us figure it out with whom she might have lived between 1914 and 1916, but to no avail. The mystery persists.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
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