7 September 2012

I went to the Roger's sale today.  Every Friday, Rogers, Ohio hosts an event that is part flea market, part farm market, and part animal sales...  it is a place to go, walk, look, browse.... and eat.  Walnut Creek Cheese, Amish donuts and baked goods, and a lot of trash/treasure hunting.  Some images...

And, a return trip to Das Dutch Haus for broasted chicken, an Ohio Amish specialty.
 

 I also visited two cemeteries.  I'm a FindAGrave volunteer.   FindAGrave.com is a genealogy website, though, I would argue that most of us are also history preservationists.  We photograph and transcribe stones, hoping to record them before the stones fade.  Cemetery stones are a tangible indicator of social class.  Wealthier people had stones of marble or granite, while the less well off used shale or limestone, which are fragile.  Hence, we seek to preserve the record of the stone while there is still information to preserve.  Older stones for women list the woman's maiden name, and at times, her parents, which may be the only indicator of her parents.  Today, I both photographed for FindAGrave, and also found stones of distant relatives.  Here is a particularly sad finding...

Finished the day with food shipping at Giant Eagle.  Purchased Chinese cookies, which is an odd name since there is nothing Chinese about them, and CoCo Wheats, a true Midwestern staple. And, foudn buttermilk sold in half gallons, the way it is normally sold in civilized parts of the world, cheaper than what I pay for a quart in New Jersey.  Cold buttermilk, with salt and pepper...one of the world's most wonderful beverages.

Ended the afternoon with another proper Midwestern thunderstorm.

O-H