OHIO VALLEY LITERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY

WITH OCCASIONAL VENTURES INTO THE GREATER MIDWEST AND UPPER SOUTH

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The Travail of His Soul: Sherwood Anderson and Elyria, Ohio–Part Three of a Series

September 7, 2024

A solitary figure walks along a railroad in late November of 1912. He is a slim, handsome, dark haired man of thirty-six. His dress shoes are scuffed and muddied; his tie is askew. He walks fixedly ahead, stopping here and there to look around him or up at the sun peeking from the edges of…

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ADDITIONAL WRITINGS

Christmas, 1921: Eugene Debs Is Released From Prison And Meets President Warren Harding

January 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Christmas, 1921: Eugene Debs Is Released From Prison And Meets President Warren Harding

By December of 1921, Eugene Debs, prominent American labor leader, dedicated activist and five time Socialist candidate for President of the United States, had been imprisoned since April of 1919. Now he was to be released on Christmas Day of 1921, thanks to President Warren Harding of Marion, Ohio. Harding asked Debs to visit the…

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A Salesman Who Got Control Of A Factory: Sherwood Anderson in Elyria, Ohio (Part II of a Series)

September 13, 2021 | Comments Off on A Salesman Who Got Control Of A Factory: Sherwood Anderson in Elyria, Ohio (Part II of a Series)

I eased my car beneath a railroad overpass, slowed down outside a chain link fence and stopped. A few scattered raindrops fell, and the occasional rubbery grind of the windshield wipers punctuated the engine’s steady purr. Before me loomed the bulk of the BASF chemical factory in Elyria, Ohio. There’s nothing here to indicate this…

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A Christmas Poem By Carl Sandburg: “Star Silver”

December 24, 2020 | Comments Off on A Christmas Poem By Carl Sandburg: “Star Silver”

It’s been a long time since I’ve featured a poem here on buckeyemuse.com. I’m working on a series of posts about Sherwood Anderson in Elyria that began a couple of years ago along with some other material, but I’ve been wanting to do some shorter posts. Something I did occasionally in the early days of…

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Patrick Kerin

PATRICK KERIN

I am a poet, writer, and teacher in Cincinnati, OH.

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