This blog will take you on some back road trips to see enjoyable and often unusual places throughout the countryside. Hope you will enjoy traveling along with me!
If you have had some interesting experiences at any of these places, would enjoy hearing about them. Maybe you have made some discoveries along the way that would make travel easier or more exciting. Please share.
Thanks for stopping by! Gypsy Bev
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What a nice blog. I know you traveled extensively and your work is real impressive. Can’t read it all in one night but have listed it on my favorites. You write like you speak. It is almost like you are telling me the story in person. Great job!!
Thanks Gladys, for stopping by for a Gypsy Road Trip. It is a great way to share my trips with others around the world.
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I like to travel vicariously and your site will take me all over the world. Thanks and I come and visit again.
Please stop by and see where my next adventure leads. Travel is my favorite hobby and I enjoy visiting those out of the way places along the way. Hope to hear from you again!
Thank you for liking the post :ps i love traveling too 😀 thank you for sharing the other part of the world 🙂
The internet makes it exciting to connect with all parts of the world. You can take a trip anywhere at anytime.
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Hi. I work for a television show and I was hoping to talk to you about using your June 8th photo of the soldier and the washboard. Let me know if this would be possible!
I have no problem with you using the picture but it is one I took at the Columbus Washboard Factory. Perhaps you should clear it with them first. I do not have an email address for them but you can contact them through their website: http://www.columbuswashboard.com . Thanks for noticing the special picture!
Hello. I have a small web designing business in Carrollton. I was recently redesigning my own website and wanted to include photos of some local historical landmarks. I would like permission to use a few photos from your site.
You are certainly welcome to use my photos if they will help you in any way. Thanks for stopping by, Bev
Thank you for visiting the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio. Your information regarding the W.P. Snyder, Jr. is not entirely correct. The Snyder was launched February 21, 1918 as the W.H. Clingerman. Her name was changed in May, 1938 to the J.L. Perry and again in the spring of 1945 when she was renamed the A-1. She became the W.P. Snyder, Jr. in the fall of 1945 after the Crucible Steel Company of America bought her and named her for their president and CEO. She was built with a steel hull in 1918 but because steel hulls were new to construction, the hog chains were added to guarantee strength. Later, it was proved that the steel hulls were strong enough and the hog chains were no longer needed.
Thank you for the additional information after reading my Gypsy Road Trip. I always appreciate correct information as it is not possible for me to research all sources. The Ohio River Museum read and approved this when I posted it. Enjoy your day, Bev
Am searching for information about canals in the Dover area (not the Ohio/Erie )and read your blog about Dover and wanted to correct a bit of information you had in there. The way to Dover is to exit interstate 77 not interstate 70 at exit 83. There is quite a distance between the two.
Thanks for reading my blog. I live in Cambridge where I-70 passes through so made the mistake and I admit it. In the ten posts I had about Dover only the ones about Reeves Mansion had the incorrect interstate listed. It has been changed. I appreciate your pointing that out as I-70 and I-77 intersect at my hometown of Cambridge.
I would like to have your permission to feature a small portion of the posting regarding Frieda Warther’s Button Collection in the Oregon State Button Society newsletter “The Bulletin.”
I am the Editor and I feel this travel information would be of great interest to collectors on the west coast. You may visit our website at http://www.oregonbuttonsociety.org
Thanks so much for your generous consideration of my request, I will certainly send you a copy of the issue in which this appears.
Jan Stutts
Jan,
That sounds like fun. I enjoy sharing information about area attractions and other places I visit. Hope your readers enjoy.
Enjoy each moment,
Bev
my maternal grandmother was born in Trail Run. When we were kids, she took us there and we rummaged through her old house. My great grandmother was a widow who ran a boarding house for the coal miners. Her 10 children got to eat the scraps that were left from the table. One sidenote: The Russian orthodox church was built mainly by Catholic Slovaks, who believed they were building a Roman Catholic Church. When they finished with the work, they were told it was a Russian orthodox church. Needless to say they were not too happy! We loved to hear the stories that my grandmother told about Trail Run. Thanks for the historical notes
My parents had a bar in east cambridge and had a friend Hobo Nelson.He gave my dad some etched glasses as a gift. Have you heard of him.
While I am familiar with East Cambridge, I have never heard of Hobo Nelson. Your dad probably received some of our famous etched Cambridge Glass.
My dad owned the East End bar just down the street from The Cambridge Glass Plant. Hobo Nelson worked at Cambridge Glass, I assume he would also work at other glass companies around the country. They appear to look like Culver glass out of Brooklyn, but without any coloring. Just my dad’s name which Hobo Nelson etched them. He would stop by the house and bar when we were kids. Dad always called him the king of the Hobo’s. He would jump on a train and come back to work at Cambridge Glass when he wanted some money. My dad passed away 5 years ago, I now have them and will pass them and the history on to my son and grandson which all share the same name.
That is very interesting. When my dad worked at Cambridge Glass, he told us the story that when there was no work at the plant that day, he would hop on a train and go to Pittsburgh or Chicago for a couple of days. Perhaps he would have known Hobo Nelson, but dad is also gone. I have asked some other people with connections if they recall that name. I’ll let you know if I find out anything. Thanks for sharing your story.
Jim, My friends at Cambridge Glass Museum looked up the name Nelson and the only one they found was a James Melvin Nelson born 10/1/1909. Could that be in the ballpark? Under his name it listed ‘smoother’ so not sure what job that was but I have asked them. They wondered if you could give us Jim’s last name as we all have East Cambridge connections. Also, the lady in charge of the museum wondered if you might be able to send pictures of the glasses so they could see if they really were Cambridge Glass. If you can’t send it through here, let me know and I’ll give you an email address. You have given us a new interesting story to tell.
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I sent an email to the address you listed above. It’s from gypsybev so hope you received it. Maybe it is in your junk folder. We’d be interested in seeing pictures of the glasses.