So I’m remembering, oh back 15 or more years ago, when I was out of my mind driving along Morse Road towards Hamilton. I passed this street called “Leather Stocking Road” or maybe it was an Avenue? Not sure…then there was also that time I was tripping the light fantastic, driving in that black rental car from an Enterprise Car Rental that used to be on E. Broad, and I parked it on the near Westside on what I’m convinced was Price Street—though I could be mistaken, who knows with all the developers razing property on the West side (didn’t Huntington Bank get the first crack at that land over 20 years ago?). Anyways, to try and suss out the proper names of these Columbus (and vicinity, of course!) streets, I have begun a little hunt by ordering my first of a series of old, trusty Rand-McNally maps. (Note to self: Did the Nashville Predators, with Soros in net, defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs last night?) My first 2002 map is due next week; I’ll also be on the lookout for 2016. Rand-McNally, like Google Maps, is known to make errors…thank goodness some of my memory is still intact though. I mean, streets like Cherry Bottom off of Morse have no sign at all!
I’ve been trying my darndest lately to be low key, but the strange things keep happening…Michael is alternating between watching Sid Vicious and movies about Jeffrey Dahmer; Arlene Sheak is now on Facebook (and I thought she was worried about safety?!) and trying to friend me; Mom wants to see a Christian Rock Band at Whitehall High School on Yearling Road. I guess I’m gonna trust my instincts (for now) and stick with mom on all this—though I’m reserving the right to walk out of the school (Lord knows I snuck out of high school more than once!).
A trip to Columbus Metropolitan Library may soon be on my agenda. My Ida Tarbell book on Standard Oil has arrived from the Worthington branch and I need to pick it up. And the library also has those wonderful, err, protected, non-circulating books which I hope include the old photographs from the Ohio Citizen Journal and Columbus Dispatch, and yes, yes, the Columbus Messenger (or was it Columbus Post?). I’m hoping too they have some old street maps as well…what a treasure trove to explore (unless some strict librarian has hidden away in some locked box the meatiest morsels of all?).
Although I did have an extremely productive day yesterday, laying out my first two pieces in this new series of artworks, the first, an Ode to Andi, the second some rather forced commentary on the English royal family, what I am most proud about yesterday is giving my last $1 bill in my wallet to the black gentleman at the intersection of E. Broad Street and James Rd. collecting monies for the New Life Church. Was not lost on me that I was only one of very, very few trusting enough to roll down their car windows to give—but what with the wretched media scaring everyone yesterday morning about dastardly new strains of illness infecting everyone, who’s surprised no one wants to trust anyone else? I took a risk, didn’t think twice about it. Kinda reminded me of my days as a cub reporter, eager to find the news back in Madison County (but sigh, guess I wasn’t that good. The Associated Press only gave me Second Place).
Have a good day, dear reader(s). Remember, Give If You Can!
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