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Athens County Fair

by Putnam & SpeedwellOctober 19, 2014

Things have changed since the first county fairs in Athens County. Until this century, after the Great Depression, most folks lived in rural areas. Not until the last quarter of the last century did we witness an exodus to the city…

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NEW STORIES Advertising, amesville-Bern, Athens ohio, back to school, Children's Books, Children's Literature, EPHEMERA

Local History – Athens County

by Putnam & SpeedwellOctober 8, 2014

Local HistoryI am an historian – a card carrying historian – the post doctorate degree made it official and public. I look at the world around me with a particular if not downright peculiar lens. Every object that I look…

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NEW STORIES Amesville, Athens, EPHEMERA, Local History, Paper

Athens County Fair

by Putnam & SpeedwellAugust 13, 2014October 23, 2014

Things have changed since the first county fairs in Athens County. Until this century, after the Great Depression, most folks lived in rural areas. Not until the last quarter of the last century did we witness an exodus to the city…

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Inspiration, NEW STORIES Advertising, amesville-Bern, Athens ohio, back to school, Children's Books, Children's Literature, EPHEMERA

Selling Pieces from the Past – Part One

by Putnam & SpeedwellAugust 7, 2014August 12, 2015

In my bio, I have described myself as a historian and collector. . . my first collection, books. History and literature stretching from the middle ages to the present. How many? I never knew. I never counted. I knew there…

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ABOUT, Inspiration, NEW STORIES, Ohio River Pottery ETSY, Ohio River Pottery, Russel Wright

Ephemera

by Putnam & SpeedwellJuly 25, 2014October 23, 2014

Ephemera is one of those words that when spoken sounds like its meaning . . . a soft, wispy sound like whisper and rhymes with chimera. Ephemera are things that last only for a brief moment in time . . . like whispers and chimera, ephemera lack…

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EPHEMERA, Inspiration, NEW STORIES A & W, Athens ohio, EPHEMERA, glass milk bottles, Postcard, Vintage

Pieces of the Past – An Antique Notebook

by Putnam & SpeedwellJuly 23, 2014October 23, 2014

Sometimes it happens during my travels that I find somethings that stirs not only curiosity but also my emotion. And sometimes, I doubt that I should be the keeper of the bit or scrap of paper, documents, letters, memos, receipts.…

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EPHEMERA, Inspiration, NEW STORIES

Mid Century Modern Furniture

by Putnam & SpeedwellApril 22, 2014October 23, 2014

At this point, at the very beginning of this post, I need to come clean. I was born in the fifties. I was a sixties child . . . prone to question at the very least, if not loudly reject…

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Furniture, Inspiration, NEW STORIES Athens Vintage, Columbus Mid Century Furniture, Foreteller, Kent-Coffey, Melamine, Mid Century Furniture, Vintage Furniture

Inspiration: A Place Called Home

by Putnam & SpeedwellApril 21, 2014May 2, 2015

Back in the day, when we were in college in Kirksville, a young man from Brooklyn moved into our neighborhood. It was his first time outside of a city. We did the best we could to calm him - even…

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Categories, Inspiration, NEW STORIES Amesville, Athens ohio, BOOKS, Historian, History, Southeast Ohio

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