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Wednesday, October 26. 2011

October in Ohio, plus American architecture

The office of The Kenyon Review, Gambier:



Middle Path:






Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:30 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thanks for posting your pics from OH. I went to College of Wooster and remember the bus rides to Gambier to play football against Kenyon in October. I'd see pickups parked in fields and along roadsides and know they belonged to bowhunters. As much as I loved playing ball, there was always a part of me that wished he was in a treestand on a blueird day in October.

I'm transplanted to SC now & like it, but Ohio still feels like home.
#1 gordon on 2011-10-26 20:02 (Reply)
Corn standing in the field? That must be a late planting or they had some rain in Ohio this summer.

Everyone's been eager to get that $8/bushel so the fields are pretty bare in these parts (central Illinois and eastern Missouri). And the dry summer meant it was ready to cut early.
#2 jhc on 2011-10-26 20:10 (Reply)
Went through Kansas and Missouri Monday. Combines running in a couple or three places; otherwise fields were down to dirt, with stalks and everything harvested.
#3 Sgt. Bob (Link) on 2011-10-27 00:30 (Reply)
Great pictures BD. This is why M'Lady and I live in rural Ohio.

jhc - for what it's worth, we broke the all time record for rainfall this year and it is still coming down!
#4 Country Squire on 2011-10-27 08:14 (Reply)
Classy verge(barge) boarding on the office,maybe I should try my hand at it in America as I seem to be one of the few people over here making it.
#5 Thud (Link) on 2011-10-27 12:35 (Reply)
Great photos as always, Bird Dog. I'm going to Gambier Wednesday, can't wait to see my son, and eat at Joe's Diner in Mt. Vernon! I love driving around the countryside in this part of Ohio - beautiful, well tended farms and really great people. And of course Kenyon itself, a wonderful place and superb college.
#6 Scott on 2011-10-27 17:25 (Reply)

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