by Loraine Ritchey thatwb@yahoo.com
Part One
Eventually the “men of the munchers” returned( I really believe the attraction for these Brown’s fans is the tailgating -can’t be watching great football with this team) . I was glad and relieved to see them safe especially with the weather conditions and the conditions on the roads.
(Querini)
For a few fleeting moments as they tumbled into the door weighed down with jackets, boots and coolers I thought of my fellow CVSI Chairperson Renee. Renee, who in our talks on Charleston Village touches on the fact of how the women of this settlement waited for their men to return to port after battling the storms on the lakes. Women who kept the lights burning in the windows of the homes along the shoreline- those lights along the shore from the homes along with the lighthouses also showed the way home.
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost
Hymn- Let the Lower Light Be Burning
Image Source
Rick Mobbs
The Past– I have been thinking a lot about the past lately, especially since we are coming to the end of 2008. Personally I have no great love of this past year – it has been for the most part a year I wish to forget .
Oh! there have been some bright spots that have shone through the darkness of this year guiding the way but for the most part this year was annus horribilis for this househould.
It was a year of battling stormy seas month after month – just when you thought you were out of dangerous waters another wave swept in. The lights on the shore seem a long way away still but I am hoping that 2009 will bring calm seas to this household and to yours.
Image Source Henery Hawk ( Mark Teleha)
ED Note : Since 2009 will be Lorain’s 175th anniversary of Incorporation I will be reprising some of her history on this site from time to time .
UPDATE: Like everything else in Lorain there is more to the story and the above statement isn’t exactly accurate- so off we go in search of Lorain and the who what where and when of this place we call home- Join us on Lorain’s Magical “HISTORY” Tour
December 29, 2008 at 1:57 pm
-The Cold-The Browns- The Brave-The Past
by Loraine Ritchey thatwb@yahoo.com
Part One
Eventually the “men of the munchers” returned( I really believe the attraction for these Brown’s fans is the tailgating -can’t be watching great football with this team) . I was glad and relieved to see them safe especially with the weather conditions and the conditions on the roads.
(Querini)
For a few fleeting moments as they tumbled into the door weighed down with jackets, boots and coolers I thought of my fellow CVSI Chairperson Renee. Renee, who in our talks on Charleston Village touches on the fact of how the women of this settlement waited for their men to return to port after battling the storms on the lakes. Women who kept the lights burning in the windows of the homes along the shoreline- those lights along the shore from the homes along with the lighthouses also showed the way home.
Hymn- Let the Lower Light Be Burning
Image Source
Rick Mobbs
The Past– I have been thinking a lot about the past lately, especially since we are coming to the end of 2008. Personally I have no great love of this past year – it has been for the most part a year I wish to forget .
Oh! there have been some bright spots that have shone through the darkness of this year guiding the way but for the most part this year was annus horribilis for this househould.
It was a year of battling stormy seas month after month – just when you thought you were out of dangerous waters another wave swept in. The lights on the shore seem a long way away still but I am hoping that 2009 will bring calm seas to this household and to yours.
Image Source Henery Hawk ( Mark Teleha)
ED Note : Since 2009 will be Lorain’s 175th anniversary of Incorporation I will be reprising some of her history on this site from time to time .
UPDATE: Like everything else in Lorain there is more to the story and the above statement isn’t exactly accurate- so off we go in search of Lorain and the who what where and when of this place we call home- Join us on Lorain’s Magical “HISTORY” Tour
December 29, 2008 at 1:57 pm 11 comments