Year: 1990

Thursday, May 10, 1990
Worked in greenhouse potting up vegetable plants from Myers.

Got bank statement & Joe Field deposited 45,000 as a 1/4 payment of interest due on land contract terminated last Oct. So wrote him thanks – cc to Robert Stout asking for note.
wrote to Kathi & sorted out pix to send her – also sent copies of letter to her to Dave & Kris along with notes to them. Sent letter & 2 books to Robert Vaneman – Ashland, Nebraska – descendants of Lucy Hildreth Coleman.

Ltter from Betty Bell with info on Prince Imperial from the Richwood area. Wonder if any connections to Josephine Hildreth Bell – Grandma Sheneman’s sister.

Wednesday, May 9, 1990
Painted benches second coat. Ray also put up 3 new sections of rail fence toward pond.

Called David & then Larry Winchester about details of reprint. Platesl being made today but discovered David used the wrong file for Geo Brown’s Foreword.
Ray Foertsch brough his big rototiller & in about 1/2 hr turned a weed patch into an ash pile. (Daddy’s name for friable soil ready to plant) – Couldn’t resist it – all 70’x20′ and saved all the prairie seeds I’d saved for 3 yrs – Sullivants & whorled milkweed, liatris scariosa & spicata, western ironweed, solidago rigida & ridelli, cord grass.
Also dug out all the old vegetable seeds & planted lettuce, corn, broccoli, caultiflower, cabbage, pepper, zuchinni, muskmelon, radishes – Also purchased new seeds & plants of tomatoes, pepper, cabbage. – to hedge my bets1
In at 3:00 to HH to meet Judge Myers & Lou Whitmoare for interview & picture about The Story of Marion, Ohio for the centennial tab.
Shopped at Big Bear $50.02 – got gas for car & mower.
Checking acct statement shows $5,000 payment from field – Int not pd on land contract on Normandy. $15,000 balance.

Tuesday, May 8, 1990
Ray Foertsch out – repaired grandstand benches & put on primer coat. Cut large cottonwood across road & sawed it up. Loaded trash from back of shed & hauled away.
Ray’s 2 day bill – $178
Brought 2 bales of straw Fri.

Monday, May 7, 1990
Used [PC] Anywhere with modem to send files to David that didn’t arrive by mail.
Forest group arrived at 10:00 (instead of 11) – Lovely sunny warm day. Toured the lower woods – Trilliums & mertensia & phlox still blooming. Sack lunch on deck supplemented by fruit salad from Kathi’s recipeful from Alaska I decided not to go to Travel series with them. Too nice a day to be coopped up in a theater – In to Sears to get paint when I mailed more copy to David for reprint.
Tabor Allison – 36 yr old professor of botany at OSUM finally made it to Terradise. Spent delightful evening showing him all my treasures. Gave him a list of trees, shrubs & wildflowers growing at Terradise. Drove to abandoned Williamsport Rd area across river – sampled nature books in my library & discussed possibilities of Terradise becoming a part of OHSM’s [OSUM] Nature Center Program. Tabor is not a demonstrative person but he was excited by the possibilities & confessed his first love is forestry.

Sunday, May 6, 1990
Mary & Geneva out & helped figure out how to play tapes thru VCR on TV.

Saturday, May 5, 1990
Studied camera – and started taking Terradise pix.
Gardened – cleaned up bed below kitchen window- potted up impatiens individually to give them better start. Planted 2nd kind of pansies.
David will be playing with the band for Ringling Brothers Circus in Cinci – Wed thru Sun – Tuba!*

[* note from David – never played tuba – always on trombone]

Friday, May 4, 1990
50-65 raining 1.2″
Call from Wilda – Kent Schuck was killed in a one-car auto accident on his way to Las Vegas to solve a construction problem. Agnes called later – Suggest we send flowers together.
In at 2 for meeting at OSUM Prairie Committee called by Tom Bowman for materil for his Master’s thesis on adult education needs. Kensel Clutter- Bill Hutchman – Tabor Allison & I. Really at rap session. Didn’t go to 4:00 meeting of Centennial Committee. Called Joan Steward & told her I could not be involved in publishing a program book for the Centennial.
Had supper at Rax – Stopped at Servex to look at Camcorder & bought a Minolta Master 8-80 $999 with extra battery & tape – Instruction book is 40 pages & there is 9 pcs of equipment.
Thank you, Howard!

Mailed corrected material on foreward to David along with pix of Etowah.

Thursday, May 3, 1990
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Planted rest of wildflowers from Jeanette Bunnels on hill by road with trilliums. Perm at Styling Salon – talked to Marcia about rounding up 1920’s beauty shop equipment. To Heritage Hall in 1920 “waist” & black skirt to lead tours for 12 Taft 8th graders (over acheivers) Jan Miseilles group – they want a project – Suggested drawings of Heritage Hall. Betty Gorsuch’s Bucyrus group – also about 12- arrived by 3:00 for tour of upper level only. Dinner at Bob Evans with Mary.
Letter from Ed & Sara Sheneman – thanking for Alaska videos & saying they enjoyed David’s family & their enjoyment of the ocean. Thank you note from ruth Haas for Creator’s Guild talk. Call from John Schumaker – Dreswser will purchase 20 hard bound copies of King book – Geo Br own called offering me ticket for concert at Palace tonight – Told him I had to work on preparing book for Corporate Centennial. Picked up pictures of Etowah that Hughes Studio copied. Proofed preliminaries & index & ready to return to David.

Wednesday, May 2, 1990
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Ray Foertsch out. Installed electrical outlet on side porch & by phone. Fixed leaking toilet. Cut off utility pole across road to Chris Opp butchered years ago & some of the multiflora roses- repiled brush pile. Replaced switch in hall – $65.
In to City Hall at 4:00 for meeting of Corp centennial Committee – Charlie Evers & Lowell Thurston – co-chairs not there. I presented idea for a program book – asked to bring in estimates & mock at meeting rescheduled for Fri.
Bought 10 goldfish for pool (got 12) for $1 – to bed about 9-exhausted from so many days of constant activity. Willis Nye called about 9:30 – Meeting next Mon at former Servex Property on N. Prospect under overpass to consider a museum site for Ed Huber museum.
Hughes Studio called – pix ready.

Tuesday, May 1, 1990
Royce to clean – Mowed front & side lawn with self-propelled mower. Set out wildflowers east of Beech deck. So delighted to see the hepatica.
Called Geo Brown to jog him to get pix of Etowah to Hughes for copying for book.

Marion Nature Club to meet here at 6:00 for birding at Terradise – Ed Lux – Charlie Evers & Amy Bradley (Rich is biology prog at OSUM) & had a closs 7 couple from Fountain Place. No publicity about the meeting. Toured along river & then drove around to abandoned part of Williamsport road where it forded river.
Showed my slides on development of Terradise since building in 1953.

Received signed copy of BancOhio but did not have schedule listing assets.
Howard gave me an extra check for $1,000.