My city sits on the western edge of a body of water that has figured large in the nation’s history, Lake Erie. My wife and I are fortunate to live in the part of Toledo where the lake is literally our front yard. Grade school history classes, consisting mostly of memorizing wars and generals,…

This year, sit back with your favorite beverage or herb, prop up your feet and open your head to consider Independence Day in a whole new way. A historically critical article about the American Revolution would typically discuss how the democratic promises of the Declaration were left…

  TOLEDO OH – Ironically, although this city is affixed to the shore of a Great Lake, we’ve given a new meaning to what a “dry” town is. We learned it’s one thing to go without beer; quite another to go without water.For three days, some 500,000 people avoided almost all bodily contact…

Last month, they emptied the storage locker and took all the displays to individuals’ homes. On Saturday, an immense funeral pyre consumed the6,800 wooden tombstones. Members of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition  (NWOPC) have decided they will no longer mount their “Arlington Midwest”…