One of my late-winter to early-spring gardening tasks is pruning certain shrubs including beautyberry bushes in my garden. Although the name beautyberry almost seems boastful, it’s truly accurate for this plant; it is a beauty. The scientific name for beautyberry is Callicarpa, a Greek ...
Monday is Earth Day, one of those “special” days that kind of fall between holidays — the kind that you get off work or school for — and any ordinary day that sadly does not come with a day off. Earth Day was first held in 1970 and was created to raise awareness about the planet we all live on. We were not being very kind to the planet in the 1960s. Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” got people thinking about what we were doing to the planet, the 1968 photo shot of the earth rising above the moon got many thinking how important it was to protect the planet. So did ...
Long before Ohio 60 connected Marietta and Zanesville up the east side of the Muskingum, and before the railroad and the Doodlebug connected the two cities on the west side, the steamboat Buckeye Belle provided regular service between the two cities in the middle of the 1800s. The voyage on Nov. 12, 1852, was a normal trip as the Buckeye Belle made its way up the river. The boat was 151 by 22 feet and drew five feet of water. Built at the Knox boatyard in Marietta, it had only gone into service on May 15. It was designed to make the trip between Marietta and Zanesville three times per ...
If you live in Marietta, and you live in a home that was built more than 100 years ago, it is likely one of thousands that are included in the Sanborn Map Company fire insurance map series produced in 1915 and available online at the Library of Congress. Sanborn was once a huge company that produced detailed maps of more than 12,000 cities and towns. The map series was produced so that insurance companies could assess a property when writing an insurance policy on it. They contained very detailed information on both cities and in many cases individual properties. They were sold to ...
Within Memorial Health System’s Department of Rheumatology, patients with a variety of diseases that are difficult to diagnose and treat and are taken care of by our expert team of rheumatologists. Specializing in the diagnosis and management of systemic autoimmune conditions and musculoskeletal diseases, rheumatologists treat patients experiencing conditions such as arthritis, gout, lupus and Sjogren’s syndrome. To help the community better understand one of the most common diagnoses that the Department of Rheumatology encounters, Kimberly Hendricks, DO, provides some insight into ...
When driving to work I pass by St. John’s Catholic Church. The church sits high on a hill west of Marietta and when you pass it you have an unobstructed view east. Frequently on cold mornings the crisp air is punctuated by the contrails of jets heading west. My first thought the other day was how did all the people get up, get to the airport two hours early, go through their TSA screening, board an aircraft and manage to get to 30,000 feet when all I have done is get in my car and drive a few miles. My second thought is where in the heck is everyone going, where did they come ...
