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On the cover

An old-fashioned typewriter (who remembers them?) from the collection of Ben Gillig graces the cover of this year’s edition of Our Town. No such keys were tapped in producing this collection of stories. An article about Gillig’s gathering of historical items begins on page 30. Here’s the full index:

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What began as a collection of books has become so much more A cyclist’s love for two-wheeled transportation lead to his collection of bikes An Attica man has collected some 30 Allis-Chalmers tractors The Seneca County Museum director has been curating a collection of parasols A Tiffin antique dealer sells antique items in an antique building A judge donates pieces of his collection of wind-up clocks to the justice center A Tiffin man has collected impressions of cultures in 45 countries on six continents Father and son birders have a friendly competition to add to their lists of species seen A Clyde man has amassed some 4,000 wrenches in a lifetime of collecting A toy duck handed out by a vendor lead to a flock of similar items at a Tiffin pharmacy This man walks in the footsteps of Native Americans, looking for arrowheads A local artists has a collection of acrylic paintings, all done by his hand Never forget to read about a Bloomville woman who collects elephants Doll club brings together a collection of doll collectors

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The library has a vast collection of books ... and more BY VICKI JOHNSON

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Those shelves of books at Tiffin-Seneca Public Library are only the beginning of its collections. “Audiobooks, music, ebooks and everything together it’s a lot of items,” said Director Matthew Ross. How many? Ross there are about 100,000 items in the library itself, but the number tops a quarter million when digital downloads are added. Books and magazines can be downloaded through Ohio Digital Library, Hoopla and digital magazines through a platform called RB Digital. “It’s kind of interesting the way those electronic collections work,” he said. There are two models. The Ohio Digital Library “works just like a library you think of going into physically,” he said. Copies of items are “checked out” and are due back at a specific time. However, Hoopla has a different method called access on demand. “When a patron downloads an item, we get charged for it,” he said. “Patrons can check them out, but we never have to pay for an item nobody’s checking out.” Depending on format, he said each item costs between $1 and $2.99. “The nice thing is you’re only charged for the things people use,” he said. Ross said there’s been a definite increase in the consumption of audio books. People listen while they’re commuting, gardening or working out in a gym. “More and more titles are available that way,” he said. “Even in the self-publishing realm, even those folks are doing self-publishing audio books now. You know it’s hit the big time.” Audio books used to be mainly on CDs and had to be checked out like a book, but he said today’s technology has changed that. “Most are downloadable,” he said. “It’s real easy for people to download on their phone and take it with them. We have an extremely large selection of downloadable books. We actually have more access to digital copies than actual

Mandi Whitaker, media collection manager, arranges featured DVDs.

Old books of county records wait to be digitized.

physical copies here in the library.” Digital downloads are growing in popularity, and Ross said the last time he checked they were about 9 percent of the library’s circulation. “When you think about it, you have this 150to 200-year-old tradition of public libraries,” he said. “People are used to coming to a building and picking up a physical item. To think we’re at 9 percent of our circulation – and growing.” Overall, he said library circulation averages a little more than 400,000 items per year. “It varies by year,” he said. “Some years, it’ll go down. Some years, it’ll go up.” And 9 percent of 400,000 is 36,000 digital downloads per year, and he said the system isn’t well known yet among library users. He invited

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anyone interested in learning how to use the system to call (419) 447-3751. “You can come into the library and ask about that,” he said. Digital access is all about the library changing with technology — and even leading it. “Libraries have kind of been at the forefront of getting some of this viable and getting people to use them,” Ross said. “It’s more like this is a great new way to do this. Here’s another way to get it out there.” Another new “collection” being added to library services beginning Sept. 1 is for job seekers and anyone else interested in online classes to advance their business-related skills. Ross said cardholders are to have free access to online educational courses from Lynda.com, owned by LinkedIn. The service offers more than 6,600 courses ranging from computer programming to project management, including instruction on various computer software, programming languages and business topics. Of course, digital services are in addition to the traditional methods of checking out physical books and visiting the library to do research or read magazines and newspapers. “We have some staff members who do a lot of collection development,” Ross said. But choosing among the vast possibilities when buying new materials can be a large task. “Broadly speaking, we use a couple of dif-

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ferent tools,” he said. “We look for book reviews in professional journals that librarians use. There’s ‘Library Journal’ and others.” In those journals, librarians read through books and make recommendations on accuracy and timeliness. “Is it breaking new ground in the field?” Ross said. “They present their opinion on what kind of library should acquire it.” Local librarians also use bestseller lists “to make sure we’re picking up things that are hot and people want to have access to,” Ross said. He said there are standing order lists for authors such as James Patterson and Diana Gabaldon, where there is a known following of readers. “We don’t do that as much as we used to,” he said. There are also tools for genres and for areas such as large-print books. “There are not a lot of Western published anymore,” he said. “But we still have a lot of Western readers, especially in large print.” Librarians sort through offerings in genres such as inspiration, romance and mystery and decide which titles best suit the community’s readers. “It’s an educated guess from what is known in the past,” Ross said. “We also gain a lot of knowledge by the process of weeding out books,” he said. “Books have to come out of our collection or you have no space.” Librarians have developed a set of criteria to help decide which books to remove, which takes into consideration the condition of each book and how much the subject of the book is affected by age. “A history book has a lot longer life span that a medical book,” he said. Other criteria include how long it has been since the book circulated and similar consideration. “If World War II books are checking out a high rate, it’s a good bet we should be buying in that area,” he said. “You have to know the community,” Ross said. “For example, there’s a lot of interest in agriculture here. It’s a huge interest in Seneca County. Just by knowing the community, we know those books are going to do better here than in another library.” Another example are books on Tiffin Glass. “There may be some call for books on Tiffin Glass everywhere, but especially here,” he said. Ross said adding to the library’s collections is an ongoing process, and orders vary greatly each month. “We order several times a month, depending on time of year and which part of library,” he said. “We might order more heavily once you start seeing more things coming out.” Ross said the department managers do an ex-

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Trinity Lescallett, adult services manager, arranges books in the library’s collection of new books.

cellent job of knowing their readers — or listeners — and buying accordingly. The final decision is his, but he rarely disagrees with them. “Sometimes it happens that something is purchased but doesn’t get checked out,” he said. “Sometimes people will check it out and not bring it back in forever. It’s past its prime time and then goes on a regular shelf. “Occasionally, one turns out to not have the interest you thought,” he said. “And sometimes we order a copy and it turns out we needed four or five. We like that surprise.” In the area of research, Ross said the library’s genealogy and local history collection continues to be a popular tool. “We mostly focus on Seneca County, but we also have other Ohio counties and the state in general,” Ross said. Information in Irish and German ancestry is important locally, he said. “Right at the end of the 19th century, there was a kind a craze when publishers would come to a town and put together a history of the area,” he said. “It’s been really helpful to genealogists. I don’t know if those folks knew what they were doing when they did it.” As part of the local history collection, he said, the library had an ongoing project to increase its Seneca County Digital Library. “What we’ve been doing is digitizing documents and materials that have to do with local history,” he said. The library is working with the county commissioners and other county offices to digitize historical county records.

“You’ll no longer have to go look at the original documents,” he said. “You can see them online and can access from your home online through links from the library website.” Digitizing helps to protect the original records and makes records more available. “We got a grant some years back for digitalizing equipment,” he said. “We’re able to put a lot of it out there.” Ross invited people in general who have interesting collections to ask about digitizing. “We’re always interested in finding these things we can digitize,” he said. People then can keep their collections, but still make them available for public use. Examples might be information from clubs, journals and diaries. “Anything that might be of interest and worth preserving,” he said. Paper deteriorates over time, he said, and one of the goals of digitization is to preserve records and written materials to prolong their projected lifespan. Library services are 95-percent funded by state funds and a local levy. Statewide, Ross said, libraries receive 1.66 percent of the state’s tax revenue, which is divided among libraries. Locally, he said, a levy was approved by voters around 2010, and the remainder of the budget comes from gifts and donations. “We try to be responsive to what people want,” Ross said. “We don’t want to buy things and just have them sit on the shelf. What you take out is what we’ll probably buy more of.”

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Loving those Schwinns Deluxe Schwinn models have bejeweled tanks and extended fenders.

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A bicycle built for two is a natural for a collection of vintage bikes.

Boyhood dreams lead to collection of vintage bicycles BY NICOLE WALBY

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Every child growing up dreams of having his or her own bicycle, and that was no different for a Tiffin resident who now collects vintage Schwinn bicycles. Tom Renninger said growing up, he always wanted a bike. “We had a large family, so we would never get any new bikes,” he said. “Every kid wanted a bike, especially a Schwinn.” The Schwinn Bicycle Co. was founded in 1895 in Chicago by Ignaz Schwinn. In 1950, one in

every four bicycles sold in the U.S. was a Schwinn. At 8 years old, Renninger got his first bike, a Hawthorne. Renninger said he hid upstairs and looked down in time to see his parents wheel in two bikes. “I knew then I was finally getting a bike,” he said. “Back then, your mom and dad didn’t worry about where you were. We would go swimming and fishing in the quarry, hookup with friends and ride around. Having a bike was the way to go and do things.” Renninger said the family used to go to Rosenblatt’s scrap yard (now the site of Tiffin University’s

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Heminger Center) to scrounge for old parts. At age 12, Renninger worked mowing lawns in the summer and shoveling drives in the winter to pay for his first Schwinn bike. “I enjoy the feeling of freedom, of being able to go anywhere without the need of gas,” he said. “You just need a few mechanical skills to fix a bike.” It wasn’t until recently that Renninger started collecting vintage bikes – all of which are Schwinn. The first bike he brought home was from a colleague when he worked at Sentinel Career and Technology Center, from which Renninger is retired. Renninger was helping with yard work when he noticed his colleague, Allen Schultz, had a Schwinn bike in his garage. He bought the bike for $10. After that, Renninger said whenever he would go to garage He has 18 sales, flea markets or swap meets and see a bikes in his Schwinn for sale, he attic and five would buy the bike. He now has 18 more on South bikes in his attic and five more on South Bass Island, Bass Island on Lake Erie, where he and his where he and family spend time on vacations or weekend his family trips. The oldest bike spend time on Renninger has is a 1926 Schwinn. vacations or “My love for old bikes is similar to weekend trips. someone’s love for old cars,” Renninger said. Not only does Renninger buy and collect the bikes, but he also works to restore them to their original shine. Renninger cleans them up and shines the bike’s chrome fenders, sand blasts them and repaints them in their original color. He said he even has found the original decals online. If he needs any parts, he can find them online and they will have the words “Schwinn Approved” on the part, so the bikes will have their original makeup. “It is all about how well you take care of them,” Renninger said. He said his prized possession is a Schwinn Mini-Twinn, of which only 400 were made. He said he enjoys taking this bike out to the islands to ride with his wife. Renninger rides a bike daily and has bikes for his grandchildren when the come to visit. He said they go on bike rides and get ice cream. Today, Renninger said, children are too focused on technology and their gadgets.

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The collected Schwinns parked together have the look of a bicycle shop.

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Distinctive among the bicycles are a historical designation (above), and a motorized version (at right).

“As a kid, I enjoyed riding and working on my bike,” Renninger said. “I loved to take it apart and put it back together.” Schwinn is important to Renninger because, he said, the bikes were all done by hand. In today’s market, bikes are put together on an assembly line to see how fast they can get done and how many can be completed. Renninger doesn’t collect and restore bicycles for profit, but if he does sell a bike, he sells it for someone else to enjoy a bike ride just like he does. ■

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Jim Stacklin provides a tour of some of the 30 Allis-Chalmers tractors in his collection.

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Collecting equates to repairing for an Attica man who has been acquiring Allis-Chalmers tractors since about 1990. Jim Stacklin said he was born in North Auburn in December 1936. His family later moved to the New Washington area, where his grandparents lived. Growing up, he said, his family “made a go of it” during the Great Depression by raising rabbits, butchering them and

hauling them to Cleveland or Toledo to sell to restaurants. Stacklin said he didn’t start collecting tractors until later in his life. He said working at Bishop’s Supply and Oil Co. probably is what made him choose to collect Allis-Chalmers. “Bishop’s over there had a dealership and I spent a lot of time during the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth grade over there. I was probably a pain in the (butt) to them, but then I started getting close to getting a driver’s license and I helped them when they got coal to haul and stuff,” he said.

Stacklin said during high school, he shoveled coal at Bishop’s for 50 cents an hour, which was the only way he had any spending money. He said he worked with used and new cars before he got into doing most of the tractor and combine overhauling. He and his brother spent a summer there setting up combines, Stacklin said. “We went to work about 8 o’ clock and it would be about 5:30 p.m. before we were done,” he said. “We got $10 a combine so that was $5 a piece for a day’s work.” Stacklin said he and his family farmed for

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many years until about 2010, which is the last time he was raising crops. He said he and his wife, Esther, have been married for 60 years and that â&#x20AC;&#x153;she was a farm girl, too.â&#x20AC;? Stacklin also worked at Midwest in Willard for 45 years and retired from there in 2014. He said he started collecting tractors and fixing them up when his brother-in-law had a WD-45 with a plow sitting outside his shed. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it running for awhile, so he wanted to know if he would give it to Stacklin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I brought it home and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first one I fixed up,â&#x20AC;? Stacklin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then, I got a couple others and started doing more of them, in the wintertime, mostly. Then, the ones I was farming with, I started fixing them up a little or painting them up.â&#x20AC;? He said he just tries to fix whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with them. In a lot of instances, the motors leak oil, whereas others donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run very well. Stacklin said getting them to run is â&#x20AC;&#x153;half the battle of them.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a couple that run good and a couple I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hardly get

started,â&#x20AC;? Stacklin said. He said he has a Model CA that he bought when his dad died in 1954. He still wants to fix it up. Sometimes it takes the bigger part of a year, on or off, to work on them. Stacklin said most of the time, he works on them at home, in the shed somewhere or at his property in New Washington. He said he tries to get the sheet metal to be smooth and then he gets them painted to make them look like they were when they were new. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are three different color oranges. The first orange they used up until 1960; Persian 1, they call it. Then there is Persian 2 and then a couple of them painted in the shed here are Corporate Orange,â&#x20AC;? Stacklin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You got to see them side by side to notice the difference.â&#x20AC;? He said Persian 2 was used from 1961 to the 1980s. When they came out with the 80s series tractor was when they changed it to Corporate Orange, Stacklin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had that about five years and then, they went to a dang green color there for awhile when

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the Deutz bought them out,” he said. “... They went back to orange after that.” Stacklin said he has about 30 Allis-Chalmers tractors. His son, Marvin, has another 10. He said the D series tractors probably are his favorites, especially the D-17. Stacklin said there were four series of Model D-17s produced and he owns one of each, including a D-17 Series 3 propane tractor he bought in the late ’70s. “It’s been around a long time,” he said. Stacklin took each series of Model D-17 tractor to the Attica Independent Fair this year. He said the D-21 is probably the tractor he likes best after the D-17 propane. “It’s the only tractor I bought new of what I got now,” Stacklin said. He said the furthest he’s ever gone for a tractor was the Polk Auction in Indiana, which occurs about every year or so.

“That’s a place to take them to sell them, but it ain’t a place to buy them,” Stacklin joked, adding that he bought a WD-45 diesel there for $7,000. He said he has purchased two tractors at the auction.. As for parts, Stacklin said he gets a lot of them from Steiner Tractor Parts in Michigan, which sells parts for all kinds of old tractors. He said he always has wanted one of the really older tractors, and mentioned his son has a 1930 Model U. Stacklin said he also has a 1948 Model G, which is a little different from the rest because the engine is mounted in the rear. The oldest tractor he owns is a 1937 or 1938 Model WF, he said. “It has a flat platform and wide front end,” Stacklin said. He said the tractors that are cleaned up, painted, fixed up and that run well are worth more. Stacklin discussed other tractors he

has puchased at reasonable prices that he can put a little money in to increase their worth. “Like that D-21, I bought that new and now, I can probably get twice what I paid for it because they only made 4,600-and-some of them,” he said. He said he enjoys doing whatever it takes to get the tractors the way he wants them.

“It’s just something to do, I guess. It just kind of caught on and is something to do,” Stacklin said. “I could never borrow enough money to buy any ground of my own, so every acre I ever farmed I always farmed for somebody else. I figured, well, if I buy a tractor and pay for it, I could work on them, so long as I don’t put too much money in them.”

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Tonia Hoffert says parasols sometimes were used as souvenirs for special events, such as this one from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

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During the 1990s, male members of the Hoffert family were playing vintage base ball with the Sycamore Grasshoppers. Tonia Hoffert wanted to attend the games in mid-1800s attire, which included a parasol. Hoffert said the first one she obtained was in tatters, so she did some research to learn how to repair it.

She started with only a long-handled skeleton dated 1873 on its latch. Without a pattern to guide her, Hoffert said she had to measure and cut all the gores and stitch the tiny seams by hand. She chose to recover it in cotton and added lace trim to coordinate with her spectator costume. “That’s what got me into it. ... I found one, restored it and then I just started buying more after that. They’re so unique,” Hoffert said. Director of the Seneca County and Bucyrus

museums, Hoffert has collected nearly 200 parasols over the past 25 years. She said the word “parasol” actually means “sun shade.” Unlike umbrellas, these accessories were not intended to protect anyone from the rain. Many parasols were adorned with beads, silk-screened patterns, fringe and lace to make a fashion statement. Most of Hoffert’s came from flea markets, antique malls and auctions. Her husband, Bill, and other relatives also started searching for more parasols to give her as gifts.

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with tiny canopies. Others had hinges to give the parasol a tilt. “It took me six years -- I looked everywhere for a book on parasols,” Hoffert said. Published in 1985, the book “Umbrellas and Parasols” by Jeremy Farrell proved to be the most helpful to her. Hoffert said a bookstore in Findlay ordered it for her from England. The book’s author description says Farrell was the “keeper of the textiles” at the Castle Museum in Nottingham in 1970, and the Museum of Costumes and Textiles since 1974. Farrell writes the first “fashionable use” of parasols originated in England and came to the American colonies via India in 1772. Hoffert enjoyed the author’s accounts and illustrations of parasols used by British royalty. Some parasols were small enough to hang from a lady’s belt. Hoffert owns one made of bone that dates to the 1840s. Its shaft has sections that screw together to shorten it for a carriage ride or lengthen it for walking. When disAn illustration of 1800s parasols.

The conditions varied, depending on how they were stored and what they are made of. “Some of them are linen, some are cotton, some silk. The silk ones are usually the ones that deteriorate the fastest,” Hoffert said. “Believe me, it’s a tedious job, trying to recover them. You have to pretty much hold the ribs down where you think they’re supposed to be

and then run a string through them,” Hoffert said. Too much tension can snap the shaft and ruin the piece. Hoffert said she consulted old magazines and ads to learn more about parasols, but found minimal information about their history. She had discovered many variations and wondered why some had long shafts, like a shepherd’s crook,

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assembled, it fits in a handbag. She has another parasol whose ribs and handle are made of bamboo. The size of parasols apparently depended on fashion trends, the popularity of certain styles and designers, the state of the economy and the materials available at the time. Some had interchangeable covers to coordinate with different outfits, Hoffert learned. For a few years, Hoffert recovered parasols and sent them “all over the world.” She got to know Shirley Wolf, who ran “Stitches in Time,” a shop in Plymouth, that sold authentic costumes for movies and other productions. “I covered a couple for her, and she would go around the country to big fashion shows,” Hoffert said. Wolf referred some of her customers to Hoffert, which led to a job to make a prop for a character in the television series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” As payment for her services, the costumer sent Hoffert a different tan parasol used in filming, and Hoffert has the episode on DVD.

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Tonia Hoffert displays a small parasol with a carved ivory handle and a shaft whose sections can be taken apart for compact storage in a handbag. Several other styles are lined up on the floor behind her.

While hunting for antique parasols, Hoffert and her husband also enjoyed the stories that went along with some of their finds. A well-preserved pair of green-and-black parasols came with a tale that they belonged to twin sisters. Each has a hinge on the shaft so the canopy can tilt over the carrier’s shoulder. “We found these in Medina at the antique mall ... They were bought from an estate. They were in a trunk,” Hoffert said. She also learned about a shop in Tiffin that repaired umbrellas and parasols in the 1890s. It was run by a Bloomville native, D.M. Eastman, who also sold the first bicycle in Tiffin. At a

sale, Hoffert purchased the special stool Eastman used to hold an umbrella for repairs. Sometimes, the vintage accessories suggest their own stories, such as the cream-colored wedding parasols with their elaborate embroidery. Long-handled beach umbrellas from the early 1900s might have shaded resort patrons for a day on Cedar Point Beach. Some parasols were souvenirs. Hoffert pointed out a waxed paper sun shade from the Great Exhibition in Cleveland in 1936. Another in her collection is from the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. She has a few children’s parasols, one of which features the Disney character,

Bambi. Most were made of heavy paper and other inexpensive materials, as children often break their playthings. “You could get them out of the catalogs for 25 cents to a dollar,” Hoffert said. Although the fabric canopies may rot away, the shafts and framing are more durable. Hoffert has some crafted in wood, ebony, ivory, metal, bone, bamboo and other materials. Farrell’s book describes “staff” parasols from 1700s, whose long handles doubled as walking sticks. “They went out of style, but they came back in the 1840s and 1850s,” Hoffert explained.

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Her research also turned up an 1850s catalog featuring men’s parasols. The one in Hoffert’s collection has a wooden handle with a large knob on the end, adorned with a carved owl face with glass eyes. It was sold at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, England. In more recent years, she has purchased a few parasols online, but she said $99 was the most she ever paid for one. About a dozen of her parasols serve as props for a program Hoffert has put together. The more sturdy specimens are displayed around her home, but many others are stored tied with ribbons or cording “so they don’t fall apart.” “The closet’s full ... I’ve got them in the basement, in the attic, in the garage,” Hoffert said. “We have some that are worth $350.” Now that Bill is deceased, she has many tokens of the time they spent together searching for parasols and memorabilia for his collections. In addition, the artistry of Hoffert’s parasols appeals to her love of history as she tries to imagine what the original owners looked like and the fashions they wore. “You can imagine traveling on a stage coach or train, or just walking the streets of Paris ... It’s like time travel,” she said.

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The owner of Antique Warehouse, 56 E. Perry St., said he has had fun collecting antiques there for the past 22 years. David Kreais said he started acquiring antiques when he was 18. “I went to an auction with a guy and I seen what he bought. I lived on a farm and, hell, we had all that stuff laying around on the farm,” he said. “So, then I started buying, selling and trading, and it just kept growing and growing and growing.” Kreais said he had been buying and selling for a while when he knew he needed some place to store his antiques, whether it was a shop or building. “I was going to build a building out in the country, but it was cheaper to come into town and get a building back then,” he said. “These buildings weren’t very good back then. They needed a lot of work.” Kreais said the building was the only place available and it was reasonable at the time. The building is three stories tall and includes a full basement, he said. “You couldn’t build a pole building that cheap and have that much storage,” Kreais said. Historically, the building was the location of the W.H. Kildow Cigar Co. Before he purchased the property, it was Blaire’s Antiques, but the business had sold

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out and he started fresh, he said. “These old buildings make these antiques look so much better,” Kreais said. Kreais said antique prices are down, but he knows what to charge for items based on what people are willing to pay or how rare an item is. He said the antiques market is like the stock market because it is always fluctuating. “The bookcases or anything like that are selling well, but bedroom suites and dining room suites, they just don’t want much to do with anymore,” Kreais said. “But the

younger kids, oak (products) used to be the hottest by far, but kids don’t like oak anymore, I think, because their parents had it. It just keeps changing.” He said his brother Kenny is into old milk bottles and that there are a lot of people collecting old milk bottles, especially the Tiffin ones, and those from wherever people were raised. Kreais said he has all kinds of antiques, including items from the courthouse. He said neat old signs and anything with advertising are “by far” the hottest items selling currently.

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Kreais said a lot of people who have antique cars are fixing their garages up to make them look like old gas stations, so oil cans and signs sell well. “The graphics on some of those cans is what really makes them cool. They’re detailed. Not like it is now, where they just put the cheapest way they can. More people seem to get a kick out of their signs and those advertisers now than about anything,” he said. Kreais said the country store and the gas station stuff is what is hot and the television show “American Pickers” has helped influence that. He said the signs still

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are his personal favorite to collect. “I’ve been buying them for a long time. I bought them before they were hot and now, I just lucked into them and they got hotter and hotter and hotter. The “American Pickers” helped with that. There’s stuff 100 years old still in good shape, it is just amazing. There’s not many antiques shops left around anymore, either,” Kreais said. He said it is weird to think about how most of the stuff he has was in houses before they had bathrooms. Kreais said a lot of the antiques he has are from the 1800s, adding that so much different items

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David Kreais talks about an old cardboard bailer made by the Monarch Mfg. Co. in Bascom in 1913.

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were produced at that time. He said a lot of antiques got saved just “by chance” and mentioned how he was able to get a 1937 poster that advertised Joan Crawford being at The Ritz Theatre because a woman had about 100 of them just lying under her bed. “That’s the way most of that stuff got saved, because it was just kind of a throw-away thing. It was just by chance. A lot of them old people couldn’t stand to throw anything away, but now kids today (aren’t like that),” Kreais said. He said you get to meet a lot of nice people through the business. People visit from all over the United States and he has learned a lot from different visitors, Kreais said. He said The Ritz being so close to the business also helps. “We had, like, Davy Jones from The Monkees was in here. He played at The Ritz. The Oakridge Boys, The Righteous Brothers, I don’t know some of the other ones,” Kreais said. “But a few of them have come in here because you know they just want to stay incognito. They just want to be like normal people. Because of The Ritz ‚ they want something to do the rest of the day and they see the shop and come here. Most of them are really nice.” Heidelberg University and Tiffin University also help to draw in a lot of people, he said. “Parents drop the kids off at the college and then the parents, they’re from all over the United States, and they stop in and take a load of furniture for the kids and then they come back and take a load of antiques home with them,” Kreais said. “The two colleges, we draw in a lot from them. Like orientation, they drop them off for orientation for two days and the parents got to stay here for a week, so they want something to do here in Tiffin. We’ve had them from all over.” He also said they get a lot of people who come in from wedding receptions who want their pictures taken. “That’s kind of cool, you know, they come back and stand here for one of the wedding pictures, but

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it’s kind of old nostalgia and stuff like that,” Kreais said. He said he tries to stay within 50 miles of Tiffin when going to auctions and buying items and he generally buys within that area. Kreais said a lot of items are local and there’s a lot out there in people’s basements and other places. He said there’s plenty to buy around here, but he does sell all over the United States and has gotten buyers from every state. Kreais said families sometimes bring items in after cleaning out estates. He said he is always going to auctions. Kreais said the computer really changed antiquing, particularly noting how the website AuctionZip, a website auctioneers use, has affected it. He said you can sort auctions by date and a radius from a location and find any auction with all the items and photos of them posted. “AuctionZip has really changed this business,” Kreais said. “What’s nice about this is you punch right in and it pops right up where the sale is, you know, so it’s a really good (source).” He said every day there is a sale to look at, which saves gas money. When he used to read descriptions, he wouldn’t know what kind of dresser or any details until he actually got there, Kreais said. Now, he can just punch in what he wants and he can see it and every listing that has what he wants will light up, he said. “It’s really made it a lot different. It’s very cool, whoever invented this,” Kreais said. He said overall, he has had fun collecting antiques. “It’s good fun. Twenty-five years ago, it was a lot more fun, but now it’s turned into more work getting older,” Kreais said. “It’s been a good business, though. It’s been a nice town. The biggest antique I bought was the building.”

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Kreais holds one of his favorite signs, made in Wadsworth in 1906.

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Time will tell. Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court Judge Mark Repp tried to get clocks for every court and for every floor of the new Seneca

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Repp said he always has valued clocks, which are intricate machines. “I like only wound clocks. ... Clocks were always really important,” he said. Repp said clocks always were important in his family. His mother and father would buy a family gift. “It was almost always a clock,” he said. Repp said clocks took on a new importance to him with Seneca County Justice Center. If officials take care of the clocks, oiling and refurbishing them as necessary, Repp said, “They’ll outlast all of us.” The same is true of the justice center, he said. “They’re not electric. They’re all wound clocks,” he said. Repp said he loves the new building. Some people would’ve A clock from Judge Mark Repp hangs in Judge Michael Kelbley’s office.

preferred to keep the old courthouse, and some wanted it torn down, he said. “This is a wonderful facility. It really is. We did it right,” he said. People will be judged by how they take care of it, he said. “Time will tell,” he said. Some of the clocks Repp found for the new building came from Craigslist, and others came from resale shops. He said he thinks he got about eight clocks for the new building. Seneca County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Kelbley received a clock from Repp, and it hangs in his office. He called it a “terrific” gift and said it was kind of Repp. Repp said he had some clocks at the previous building and always had one in his office. He has a “beehive” clock in his office that he said probably dates back to the 1860s. The clock in Repp’s courtroom had been in his family. “My mom and dad had bought it for Christmas,” he said.

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A Tiffin man has traveled to nearly all the continents in the world, collecting thousands of photos and many memories along the way. When Seneca County Board of Elections member David Koehl visits another country, which he does about once a year, he asks himself two questions. “What would my life be like if I was born

here?” he asked. “Could I live here? Would I live comfortable as an American? “I love visiting Russia, but it would be horrible to live there. ... I think I could live in Thailand or Iceland.” Koehl enjoys visiting countries outside of the typical tourist season so he can save money and experience the culture as the locals do. “I like to see what it’s like in a normal place on a normal day in an area that’s not overrun with tourists, just to see what it’s like,” he said. He said he has visited about 45 different

countries over six different continents. He’s also been to all 50 U.S. states and lived in England for two months during college. “I’ve never been to Antarctica,” he said. “I would like to go to Antarctica, but I’ve never seen a trip for less than $8,000.” Koehl said some of the places he’s visited include Botswana and Morocco in Africa; Peru and Argentina in South America; China, Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in Asia; Norway, Germany, Italy and France in Europe; Canada in North America;

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25 and Australia. When Koehl visits a new nation each year, he tries to alternate continents. Next month, he hopes to visit Prague and Vienna. Koehl said some of his favorite countries to visit are the ones that have a culture, governmental system and political system that are the opposite of the United States. “Some of my favorites are the ones that are the most different than here,” he said. “To see what the economic system has done.” One of his most interesting trips was in 1993 when he visited Russia about 15 months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He spent time in Moscow and in Kiev, Ukraine. He said a travel guide was with him on the entire trip. “Legally you could go out on your own, but realistically there were no restaurants,” he said. “They didn’t want people traveling around.” Koehl said his trip back to Moscow a decade later was much different. “It changed a lot,” he said. “Out in the countryside, it was still very undeveloped.” Koehl said another interesting, but “strange,” trip occurred when he traveled to Cuba. U.S. citizens previously could not enter the country until President Barack Obama lifted the

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travel ban to the nation. Koehl said he worried President Donald Trump would reinstate the ban. “I always said if Fidel Castro died, and there weren’t riots in the streets, I would visit Cuba,” he said. “Castro died a few days after (Trump) was elected. I booked it within 24 hours and planned to be back before Trump took office Jan. 20.” Koehl said he met a couple from Cleveland who did the same thing because it might be the only chance to see the country. He said time in Moscow and especially in Cuba showed him the stark contrast between capitalism and communism. “If you ever have any doubt if capitalism or

communism is better, three hours in Cuba would answer your question,” he said. “Nothing has been fixed since the 1950s.” Koehl said when Fidel Castro took control, he nationalized everything. In the last few years, some of the restrictions have been lifted. “Before three years ago, all the barbers were government employees,” he said. “Most meals were had in private homes. For the last 5-8 years, they were only allowed to have restaurants in their own homes, with the only employees allowed being family members. There’d be only 3-4 tables. Recently, they’ve loosened up on that.” Koehl said the best-stocked food store would have a maximum of 15 items, while many

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storefronts sold just one item. “It was a very, very odd experience,” he said. Koehl said he only speaks English but has learned to overcome the language barrier. He said it helps that most people in the world speak some degree of English. He said he uses phrase books to help supplement, meaning he can have simple conversations in about 20 languages. Koehl’s destinations also are inspired by his appreciation of history, art and architecture. His visit to Latvia included the admiration of a unique style of architecture and a visit to a KGB Museum, hosted in a building where the KGB used to operate. Koehl said he is motivated to continue to travel annually because it is a chance to see

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Hammerfest, Norway, is seen from the sea. Koehl spent the night near this area in January.

how people from other cultures live. “Lots of people travel the U.S. but won’t leave the country,” he said. “Some people think no matter where you go, it’s just like the U.S. ... It’s not.” Koehl’s favorite continent used to be Europe, but now it is Asia. “It’s more diverse,” he said. “There are very wealthy and very poor areas.” Koehl said he spends more time planning the trips than he does on the actual trip most of the time. He said he takes two printed guidebooks and other informational guides for ideas on destinations. “There are suggested itineraries for if you like nature, or art, or history,” he said. Koehl said he typically spends about half of his time in the nation’s capital or largest city and then spends the other half traveling the rest of the country.

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29 “If I’m in a city for more than three or four days, I’ll pick a residential neighborhood and walk around,” he said. “I’ll walk into an area without a lot of tourists, like a hardware store, or a restaurant that doesn’t have an English menu.” Koehl’s trips aren’t about relaxing, they are about collecting memories and experiences. He said he takes thousands of photos on each trip. “I’ve never been to a resort in my life. I’ve been to some of the world’s best beaches, but I never stayed for more than 15 minutes,” he said, adding that he was too busy trying to experience the culture of the country and seeing museums, cathedrals and other landmarks to relax in the sand. Although Koehl has been to the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and has seen the Great Wall of China, his favorite part of traveling is spending time with normal people on a normal day, far away from other tourists. He said he wants to learn more about the culture of other people. If Koehl could visit any place in the world that he has not been to yet, his answer might surprise some. “I’d go to North Korea. If I could guarantee I could get out of North Korea safe, I’d go in a heartbeat,” he said. “It’s stranger than anything else. They literally live in darkness. If you go to North Korea now, there are two guides with you at all times. They tell you not to slip away from your guides. They could be severely punished. Citizens could be severely punished for talking to you, they could lose their jobs or much, much worse.” Koehl said he loves to travel and plans to continue, but he also loves being an American. “I always buy the roundtrip ticket,” he said.

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Tiffin City Councilman Ben Gillig displays two Cedar Point pennants that are part of his collection of historic items from the amusement park.

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A Tiffin City Council member uses his collection of historic items to create memories, joy and new relationships. Tiffin City Councilman Ben Gillig, who also is a history teacher at Tiffin Middle School, said his collection includes sports and pop culture items, Cedar Point items,

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Tiffin history items and objects that relate to his family. “Everything I keep relates to someone I love or care about,” he said. Gillig said he’s been collecting since he was a kid. “It started with (Teenage Mutant) Ninja Turtles and He-Man,” he said. Gillig said his interest in the hobby escalated when he was in high school.

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Five Cleveland Indians bobbleheads are part of Gillig’s sports-related collection.

“I would skip lunch and save my lunch money so I could go to Line Drive (Sports Cards) to buy hockey cards after school,” he said. Gillig’s collection has grown steadily ever since; he estimates he has hundreds of items. “My mom (Ann Gillig) was a collector, I followed in her footsteps,” he said. Gillig’s father, Fred, who died in 2009, also contributed to Ben’s collection. He said he began collecting Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians programs, cards, bobbleheads and other items when his father was sick. “(Some of the items) have to do with family connections,” he said. “I remember watching the Browns with my dad growing up. Browns and Indians, that’s my dad. They just kind of make me feel a connection with him since he’s been gone for so long.” Gillig said that even though some of the results of games were bad, they are still positive memories of time spent with his father.

“(Dad) saved up and we went to the final three Indians’ games at Municipal Stadium,” he said. “They lost all three, but Albert Belle won the (runs batted in) race.” Gillig’s most cherished collectible was a gift from his wife, Erin Gillig. The item is a signed Otto Graham football card. “She knows I love Otto Graham,” he said. “Our first son Hudson, his middle name is Graham because of Otto.” Gillig also has a collection of Cedar Point-related items that reminds him of his parents. Gillig has programs, banners and old tickets from the amusement park. “We used to get season passes, it was our one luxury as kids,” he said. “Mom loves the history of the place.” Gillig said he more recently began to focus on historic items that relate to Tiffin. He thanked the late Bill Hoffert and Seneca County Museum Director Tonia Hoffert and museum volunteer

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Mark Steinmetz for piquing his interest in Tiffin items. He said he has milk and beer glasses from Tiffin’s first brewery, newspaper clippings from the flood of 1913 and a large variety of other objects. Gillig said William Harvey Gibson, whose statue sits on the lawn of Courthouse Square, is one of his favorite historical figures. Gibson, who died in Tiffin, is lauded for his military leadership during the Civil War. “Gibson is one of my personal heroes,” Gillig said. He said he collected Gibson’s book and several other items related to the historic figure. Gillig also keeps items that relate to his family, including a plaque from the city of Tiffin that salutes his late father for his service on the city’s zoning board of appeals and planning commission. Gillig was inspired by his father to serve in government; Fred narrowly lost a city council race. Ben was appointed to city council in 2017 and was elected as a write-in candidate to serve a four-year term beginning this year. Gillig said he is proud to follow his father’s legacy of public service.

Another family-related item Gillig cherishes is a typewriter that belonged to his grandmother, Onalee Martin. She used the typewriter to teach typing and shorthand at a business school in Van Wert. Gillig said the typewriter could be more than 100 years old. Gillig said he doesn’t keep all items to himself, he also enjoys searching for items that others would appreciate. “I do the best I can do with sharing or getting items into the right people’s hands,” he said. “It’s not about making money, but how can the stuff I own bring joy to others or help others to learn things.” Gillig said he tries to find new ways to share his collection with others. He has an 1898 yearbook from Heidelberg University that he hopes he can collaborate with the school to display. “I’m always looking for new ways to share my collection,” he said. “I’m not in it for the money, I just want to share the cool stories.” Gillig said he continues to collect for the “joy and memories.” “It helps when I see an item, I can remember the backstory, or I can visualize a connection as to

why I purchased it,” he said, adding that the items have their own story in addition to the story a collector creates when they acquire the item. Gillig said his collection also is beneficial in the classroom. “I’m able to bring in things and show them to the kids and pass them around, they just love it,” he said. “You can tell, even when I send the kids to the museum ... all those objects have a story. All those things have a cool story behind them that you can relate to present day. You can show them the connection of why it’s important.” Gillig said he has had students

who see historical items and begin to wonder what life was like hundreds of years ago in Tiffin. “Then you know you’ve done something special, when you’re able to make that connection,” he said. Gillig said every item has a story, and each item can be used to connect to other people who you might not normally connect with. “That’s how you develop relationships with folks, you learn about what they love,” he said. “It’s a good way to relate to people, everybody loves what they love, that’s a way to make a friend.”

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Brian McClain visited Springville Marsh with his young family 12 years ago on a morning Tom Bartlett was banding birds for research. His son Tyler, then age 7, was hooked. And the collecting began. Father and son began adding birds to their “life lists” — a collection of birds seen by a person at least once. Through the years, a friendly competition has arisen to see if father or son could acquire a longer list. Brian had been a student in Bartlett’s life sciences class 30some years ago at Clyde Junior High, and was a member of a club called Bartlett’s Birders back then. He remembers his grandfather feeding the birds as he was growing up. “I started paying attention to birds,” Brian said. “That’s when I first got attached to it. I really got into it when I got into Tom’s club there in junior high.” However, as a teenager, other activities competed for his time and his birding took a back seat. After Brian had a family, he

said, he said he ran into Bartlett again. Tyler was 7 and his two daughters were a little bit older. “He fell in love with it and it kind of got me back into it,” Brian said. “Now it’s what we do.” Tyler said he remembers that first bird-banding experience. “I remember being overwhelmed and coming up to the bird stand and being able to hold them and everything,” he said. Brian, now 45, and Tyler, 19, of Sycamore, have spent many hours in the woods and traveling through the years to view elusive birds, and assisting Bartlett with banding. “We started that day and went about every weekend,” Brian said. They helped band songbirds at Springville Marsh, owls on Kelleys Island, shore birds on Lake Erie. “Any banding he would do, we would help with it,” Tyler said. They extract birds from the nets that catch them, and then Bartlett records information about them and places a small metal band on a leg before the birds are released back into the wild. Tyler said he’s been watching for 12 years and plans to get his banding license. “There’s so much to learn about a bird,” he said. “Plumage, age, how to sex them.” While Bartlett is collecting information, sometimes the McClains explain to visitors what he’s doing and how the research helps

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Brian with his spotting scope and Tyler with his camera stop to find out what they can see at Howard Collier State Nature Preserve.

birds he has seen in his lifetime, and Tyler is just behind him with 439. “They’re not just here in Ohio,” Brian said. “We’ve got to the point where we take trips or hurry to a spot to see a rare species.” The McClains said a bit of competition between them makes birding more fun, and since Tyler has been old enough to drive, the birds they see sometimes are different now. After he got his driver license, Tyler said, he went birding after school. “Just to check them off the list,” he said. “You challenge yourself sometimes to see how high you can get.” Starting his sophomore year at the University of Toledo, Tyler is

majoring in environmental studies and plans to work as a naturalist. He plans to take a few classes in ornithology. He said he enjoys educating the general public about birds, and as a member of the Ohio Young Birders Club, he leads guided walks each May during northwest Ohio’s Biggest Week in American Birding. A graduate of Mohawk High School, he also has spoken to a third-grade class at Mohawk about birds. “I talked to them about the festival up by the lake every May and just general information,” he said. “I’m giving back, and hopefully some younger kids will take more of an interest like I did when I was younger.”

This summer, he is doing maintenance work at Kelleys Island State Park and, of course, adding to his birding list. Tyler said he’s getting into bird

photography more and more. “They are birds I’ve seen before, but I’m capturing better shots of them,” he said. “I’m learning more about them so I get a better

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understanding of them and their environment.” A few years ago, it wasn’t unusual for father and son to wake up in the morning and take a whole day traveling from Maumee Bay to Cleveland, stopping along the way at spots well known for diverse bird populations. “I started college last year, so our birding time together has kind of dwindled down,” Tyler said. “It isn’t what it used to be. We’d just take off in the morning and spend a whole day, mostly along the lake.” And sometimes when a rare bird was spotted, they would drop everything and take off to find it. For example, a few years ago it was rare to see a snowy owl in Seneca County. So when one was spotted, the McClains and lots of other birders hopped in their cars and went to see it. Since then, snowy owls in the winter have become a bit more common in northwest Ohio. “There was a big explosion this year,” Brian said. Chasing rare birds requires a bit of luck — and lots of patience — the McClains said. Through an online information system, birders can report to each other and keep up with any unusual bird sightings. When something rare is seen, birders flock to the location to see the bird and add it to their life lists. Sometimes they’re successful and sometimes they’re not. Going after rare or elusive birds is a challenge. “Timing is everything,” Brian said. In one case, they were on a trip and thought they saw a certain bird cross their path. They stopped to find it. “It was an American dipper,” Brian said. “Sure enough, there it was. We watched and took a couple pictures. We never saw another one on the rest of the trip. Stuff like that happens all the time.” In Texas during a storm, they were in the right place to see birds seeking shelter. “Sometimes it’s like birds are falling from the sky,” Tyler said. “It’s something you can’t plan for. It’s something you really hope for.”

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But it happens the other way around, too. Sometimes, they just miss seeing rare birds. For example, this spring they missed seeing a laughing gull at Maumee Bay. There have been several trips to add to their life lists. As Tyler got older, Brian said, he would take vacation time off work at Carbo Forge, Fremont, and they would travel the country seeking new birds. “We packed up and went to Arizona,” Brian said. “There’s some really good birding out there. “Arizona was neat because it ranged from dry desert brush to big boulders,” he said. “The pictures you see in books don’t do it justice. You have to go and see it for yourself.” On their way through Oklahoma, a memorable experience included driving down a two-lane road with wire fence on each side. There were scissor-tailed flycatchers sitting on fences on both sides. They stopped counting at 125. “They were just everywhere,” Tyler said. Tyler attended a young birders camp through Audubon in Maine at age 17, and was pleased to receive a scholarship from a local Audubon organization that paid for the entire trip. Brian went with him and they spent a day or two birding together. Tyler then went to camp and Brian went to see a few sites on his own. “We turned it into a mini-vacation,” Brian said. “We got to spend about a day and half together exploring the coast of Maine. And then again at the end, we went to one of the islands with some (birding) friends who happened to be there at the same time.” Last summer, the McClains traveled to the Colorado Rocky Mountains to spend a week seeking new birds. “Once you cross the Mississippi River, you start getting birds that don’t show up here,” Brian said. They reported adding 80-some birds to their lists, but they also saw black bears, moose, elk, mountain goats and “a lot of wildlife we’re not used to.” They visit Florida every year or two. “Being in this, we’ve made so

many friend from so many cultures,” Tyler said. The McClains have friends in Cuba who operate a birding service there. A 2011 comedy movie call ‚ÄúThe Big Year‚Äù brought attention to the birding world. “It inspired a lot of people,” Brian said. “A couple we know from Florida, that’s what got them into birding. They were recent empty nesters, and now they travel around and do the same thing we do.” And they often see lots of other people they’ve come to know through the years. Most birders submit their lists to a website called ebird (ebird.org/home), Tyler said, which is a database where birders keep track of their numbers and the data is collected. Tyler said his Ohio list has close to 300 birds. Brian said he doesn’t keep track of Ohio, but estimates 270-280. There are more lists birders keep such as an annual list, county

lists and even a “twice seen” list. “They’ll make a list for anything,” Tyler said. One of the challenges is called “100 in January.” In the colder months, Tyler said there are not as many birds in the area. “It’s a tough challenge to get a lot of birds in that month,” he said. And often they create mini-lists for each calendar year. “On Jan. 1, if we don’t have a Christmas count, we’re out there starting our list for the year,” Brian said. “We’ve had some good days doing that.” Tyler said he sometimes starts off the year at 12:01. “I get outside and try for owls,” he said. As they talk about their hobby, father and son stop suddenly and listen intently. “Was that a (fill in the blank),” they ask each other. “It’s the adventure really,” Brian said. “You never know what you’re going to find.”

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Philip Eberhard poses with wrenches, old oil cans and other antiques in his collection at his farm.

Clyde man’s collection spans wrenches and more

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Philip Eberhard has all the wrenches he and his father collected during the last 50 years. Wrenches are mounted on walls. Wrenches are piled on the floor. Wrenches are mounted on boards he can take to fairs. “There are 2,700 on boards, but it’s probably closer to 4,000 (altogether),” he said. They line the walls of the outbuildings of his farm in rural Clyde. And on the floor are some recent acquisitions he hasn’t had time to explore yet. Eberhard got started collecting wrenches with his father. He would go to sales with him as a child. “Actually, my dad started in the late ’60s,” he said. “When I turned 16 years old, I started buying for him, and a little bit for me. “I had my driver’s license and my dad would

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send me to sales,” he said. “There was all this fantastic iron laying around.” Now 66, Eberhard still thinks cast iron is fantastic. He helped his father, but he said he didn’t get serious about his hobby until 1984, when he attended a swap meet in Waukee, Iowa. “It’s got basically anything you can think of in cast iron,” he said. “It’s endless.” Between 1984 and when it ended in 2000, he never missed that show. In 2000, his father died and Eberhard inherited his collection. He’s been adding to it ever since. When he buys old wrenches, Eberhard said, he usually intends to add them to his collection. “Some of the wrenches I might buy to trade, but most of the time I just sit on the stuff,” he said. “I’m opportunistic, too. If I think something is worth the money, I’ll buy it.” Part of the draw to collecting wrenches is finding good deals, he said. There’s also the competition of finding something before someone else does.

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Eberhard said he finds out about sales he might be interested in by subscribing to newspapers and farm-related publications. “I take half-dozen newspapers a week and four magazines,” he said. However, wrenches often are not the items auctioneers choose to photograph. So if the sale is close enough and sounds promising, he drives there to check them out. “Sometimes I buy them, sometimes I don’t,” he said. “I like buying stuff that I don’t have.” He has run-of-the-mill wrenches and some that are more rare — mainly made for use in repairing and adjusting old farm machinery and steam engines. “I have wrenches I don’t know what they were for,” he said. “I like to look them up, but I can’t always find the information.” The quest for unusual items sometimes takes him on trips. He traveled to New York a while back because there was a wrench for sale in one of the publications. “I went to the website,” he said. “I spotted that wrench and I was gone. “I paid 400 bucks for a wrench,” he said. “When you go someplace like that, you get your mind set that you’re going to buy it. I went for it. I was going to have it.” Sometimes when he finds a piece that costs a bit more than planned, he balances the price by buying other wrenches at lower prices. “I divide it out,” he said. Averaging the prices makes rare pieces more affordable. Through the years, Eberhard has honed his knowledge of auctions. He said more and more auctions are charging a buyer’s premium, often 10 percent. That means a buyer must pay an additional 10 percent more than the purchase price. “You have to include that cost when you’re doing your math when you’re bidding,” he said. He sets a limit in his mind for each item he intends to bid on, using the large internal database of stored knowledge. “I set a limit unless I go for a certain piece,” he said. If he finds a

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Wrenches of varying sizes, shapes and uses line the walls of the outbuildings at Philip Eberhard’s farm.

specific piece he’s been wanting, he might not set a limit. “If I really want it,” he said. “I’ve walked away from ridiculous before. There will be something else down the road.” He pretty much stays away from online auctions, but he bought a wrench on eBay one time. Eberhard doesn’t know which is his oldest piece, but he has several items from the late 1800s. “I have some wrenches from around 1890,” he said. “From some of the early steam engines.” His newest items are from the 1970s. At one point, he decided not to buy anything chrome colored, but then there was a sale where newer wrenches were selling inexpensively. “I basically like the implementtype wrenches instead of the adjustable wrenches,” he said. “But I have some of those, too.” Eberhard focuses on collectibles from early Ohio businesses mainly, but not exclusively. He attends sales mainly in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska.

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“I don’t usually get any farther than Nebraska,” he said. “Going east, I don’t get very far east. New York and Pennsylvania a few years ago.” He said Illinois is a tough state to buy in. It’s more expensive because there are a lot of wrench collectors. Through the years, his interest has broadened. “I started out with wrenches and branched out,” he said. “I just like old cast iron.” In addition to wrenches of every size and shape, Eberhard has 140 cast-iron tool boxes, which were mounted on horsedrawn field-work implements. “Now they’re getting harder to find,” he said. Other old cast iron objects also catch his attention. He has a few cast-iron block-and-tackle sets. “The 1897 caught my eye,” he said, referring to a block and tackle. “I looked it all over. I never seen a gear driven one. Being not broke, I had to go for it.” For a while, he also bought old implements such as horse plows. “I got out of that because it took up too much room,” he said. “I like oil cans, too,” he said. In Shipshewana, Indiana, he said, he found a rare oil can from a former company in Springfield, Ohio. “I wanted that baby bad,” he said. “It’s the first one I’ve ever seen.” In addition to his physical collections, Eberhard has collected a lot of knowledge about the history of farming. He enjoys reading parts books for old farm machinery so he can identify wrenches, he said, as he flipped through one of 10 notebooks full of copies from the pages of parts books. “Today, since the internet has been around, I don’t find as many parts books as I used to,” he said. He has learned through the years the histories of many old companies and how they changed through mergers and

Collections consolidations. His collection includes items from John Deere, Case, Allis Chalmers and Oliver, to name some. “I have a lot of shortline companies,” he said. Those are companies such as Sears and Montgomery Ward. He also collects books on topics of interest. “You have to keep up on stuff you know,” he said. To remain connected to the collectors’ community, Eberhard is a member of several organizations such as the Missouri Valley Wrench Club, which focuses on wrenches and cast iron, as well as the Cast Iron Seat Association, which has interest mainly in seats from old farm implements. He’s also a member of the Corn Items Collectors Association, National Ford Tool Collectors Association, Midwest Tool Collectors Association and Ohio Tool Collectors. Attending various antique shows leads to networking with people who have items he might want to buy. For example, a trip the Fremont toy show led to meeting a guy with several steam engine funnels he didn’t know what to do with. Funnels were used to fill the reservoirs of steam engines. They now have a new home. “I’m into cast-iron funnels pretty big,” he said. “I got a miniature one I bought down at Greenville.” In addition, he has watch fobs, ads from early companies and trade cards from early companies. “And there are stick pins you used to put in your coat to advertise,” he said. And there are pencils, pens, matchbooks, straw hats and pith helmets. “I started out with wrenches and just kind of progressed,” he said. “One things leads to another.”

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Eberhard holds a cast iron block and tackle, another tool in his collection.

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A Wyandot County man enjoys collecting objects that were left behind in an area that was inhabited by Native Americans hundreds of years ago. Nathan Risner said he has collected arrowheads in area fields for at least 20 years. Risner said he was inspired by a friend to start collecting. “I had a friend who lived down the road, he had a big collection,” he said. “I just started picking them up.” Risner said he used to have

more arrowheads, but he had many of them stolen from him when he moved to Kentucky. He said he now has about 200 arrowheads. “I had a whole bunch more than what I got now,” he said. Risner also finds motivation from his family’s Native American heritage. His grandmother, Grace Risner, was “full-blooded” Cherokee,” he said. Risner said the arrowheads he has found take several different shapes. He said some were used to work with leather, others were used as scrapers, but most were used as weapons. He said he believes they were formed by working with and ma-

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Risner displays one of his favorite arrowheads from his collection. He has about 200 arrowheads in his collection.

nipulating the stone, oftentimes flint, with harder stone or other tools. Risner said he feels a connection with the people who used the arrowheads hundreds of years ago in this area. “I do it just to pick up an arrowhead. To find something old and something that was used by an Indian. A man held that 300 years ago and shot it out of a bow he made. That’s really the deal,” he said. He said he does most of his arrowhead hunting in fields near his house in Tymochtee Township,

about three miles south of McCutchenville. He also said he has found several near TR 122 and River Road. According to the Ohio Genealogy Express website, Tymochtee Township is within an area that was allotted as an Indian reservation for the Wyandot Tribe in 1817. Risner said he does his hunting during spring because that is when he has found the arrowheads are on top of the ground. “After the fields are plowed and the rain and the snow washes them up to the surface,” he said. Risner searches for the objects

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about once a week during the spring, spending between 30 minutes and four hours looking for the items. “It depends on the day and the weather,” he said. “I’ve hunted in the rain and the snow.” Risner said hunting can be exciting, but he doesn’t always have success when searching for the items. “Sometimes I don’t find any, sometimes I find six,” he said. “I only maybe find one or two on average, it depends on the field and the day.” Risner enjoys the thrill of not

knowing if he will find arrowheads, but he’d prefer a day when he finds as many as possible. “It’s awesome, it’s something else,” he said of the hobby. “I like to find them, though. If you don’t find them, there’s no sense in going out.” Risner said the hobby keeps him coming back because he loves it. “I love arrowheads, it’s just what I do,” he said. Risner said he’s willing to walk the fields with anyone else who shares an interest in the hobby. “There’s a few people I’ve gone out with,” he said. “Kurt Johnson,

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More arrowheads from Risner’s collection.

my neighbor, we’ve hunted together since we were little.” Risner also said the hobby is good exercise, as he walks between two and three miles on average while searching. Risner said he’s spent at least 20 years searching for arrowheads and he plans to continue doing it for the foreseeable future. “I ain’t planning on quitting anytime soon,” he said, adding that his experience has made him a better hunter. “You learn what fields have

more than others,” he said. “I’ve got a couple fields, I know right where they’re at. I’ve learned to go slow and look hard. Make sure to stay in the row.” Risner jokes that the fields are “growing arrowheads.” “I’ll keep finding them, they’re out there,” he said.

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‘Painting for me is not just therapeutic but is imperative.’ — local artist Jon Adams BY NICOLE WALBY

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In life, people don’t always collect physical items but gather memories, life experiences and, for one Seneca County native, artwork. Jon Adams was born to Vera (Comer) Adams and Floyd Adams of Bascom. Jon’s father was known as a “home kid” — from the Junior Order of United American Mechanics’ National Home in Tiffin — and Floyd and Vera met at church; a year later, Jon was born. Jon is a graduate of Hopewell-Loudon High School and in 1966 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in painting and design – with minors in English and philosophy – from Bowling Green State University. After Jon graduated high school, he joined the U.S. Army and served in Germany, where a friend convinced him he was good enough to go to school for art when he returned. During his senior year at BGSU, Jon would take his Oldsmobile back home to Sandusky and go to an art supply store. The owner gave him the new paint to try — acrylics. At the time, Jon was using oil paints, which took longer to dry, smelled bad and stained. Acrylic is a water-based paint, dried quicker and Jon said he could paint multiple canvases at a time. The first time he used the paints, he completed three paintings in two hours. The owner of the store only gave Jon primary colors and that next week, Jon said, he used his pizza and beer money to buy the other colors. “That was the last time I’d ever use oil colors,” Jon said.

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Above is a river scene painted by Jon Adams; at left is a self portrait.

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“Harvest Overlook” by Jon Adams.

To make a living, Jon knew he had to go into commercial art in graphic design. After college (he graduated in 1966), Jon worked in advertising in Cleveland and Akron. He also taught part-time for five years at The University of Akron – commercial art and graphic design. Jon said he would paint all the time in his spare time. “I would skip sleep to paint,” he said. Over the years, he has created more than 400 paintings and continues to paint today. Jon worked at Griswold-Eshelmann Co. in Cleveland as an art director, creative director and copy writer. After losing a large account, he was laid off, which is when he started freelancing more. During the time he was laid off, Jon owned his own business, where he discovered he made more money working independently than at an agency. In 1976, Jon moved to California, and his family later followed. During this time, Jon said, he stopped painting because of work

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and the long commutes, which cut into his time. In California, Jon owned Hired Hand Design in Long Beach from 1980 to 2004. During this time, Jon wrote a novel and noticed the atmosphere of ad agencies was changing with the introduction of the Macintosh computer in 1984. Jon said he became so wellversed in the computer he took the time to help teach others how to use it. “I’m fortunate to have lived and work in this tech revolution,” Jon said. It wasn’t until 1981 Jon started painting again. “I felt guilty for not painting all that time,” Jon said. Jon paints primarily landscapes and other nature figures. “I paint to get away from everything,” he said. In 2004-05, Jon’s mother needed to be transitioned into an assisted living facility and, because she had family back in Ohio, Jon and his siblings decided that would be best. While back in Ohio getting his

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mother situated, he decided to move back too, realizing he could live cheaper. While back in Ohio, Jon painted his barn series after painting one from a photo of a Mail Pouch barn given to him by his uncle. Jon showed this painting to Chuck Cooper – who helped found the Tiffin Art Guild and Gallery – and then later became a member in 2007. “This was a place I could show my work,” he said. Over the years, Jon has also taught many armature painting classes at TAG. “Art is something I have always wanted to do,” Jon said. In junior high, Jon said, he would always get caught drawing in class and made to show his work to the entire room. One instance, Jon drew a large battleship on the chalkboard while a baseball game was going on. The next day, he was sent to the principal’s office who commemorated Jon for his work but was made to clean the board. “Painting for me is not just therapeutic but is imperative,” he said. “I have to do. I’m always thinking about painting.” Jon said his paintings have to have some kind of drama or surprise in the color or composition. “Painting is like a haiku,” he said. Jon said he enjoys the works of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Francisco Pizaro. Jon said it is important for people to create; not just paint, but build houses, sew clothes, throw a pot. “People have to do some sort of creativity,” he said. To view some of Adams’ work, visit www.jondude.com.

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Above, Muriel Colatruglio displays the kissing elephants carving that is her favorite piece. The little blue elephant in the photo at right is a sprinkler.

Herd of endearing J elephants inhabit Bloomville home BY MARYANN KROMER

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Bloomville resident Muriel Colatruglio is an elephant collector — not real elephants but decorative and practical items decorated with elephants. She estimates her collection of elephant-related objects numbers around 50, including jew-

elry, planters, sculptures, toys, candle holders, salt and pepper shakers, a glass bowl, a wooden puzzle, watering can, beach towel and Christmas decorations. “The Christmas one is a tree and the ornaments are all elephants, all around the tree,” Colatruglio said. The beach towel was a recent find at a local department store. Colatruglio makes regular trips to

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the YMCA and decided the towel would be useful on the days she swims. Started in 1986, Colatruglio’s collection does not have a special significance. She said her daughter had begun collecting, and it just seemed like a fun hobby. “Donna was collecting hippos, and I thought, that looks like fun. I think I’d like to do something. I like elephants, so I think I’ll do elephants,” Colatruglio said. While Christmas shopping with Donna at Southwick in Toledo, she found one of the first pieces for her collection at a vendor in the mall. On another shopping trip with a granddaughter, Colatruglio came home with a kissing elephants sculpture that sits next to her wedding photograph. More than one came from the annual craft show and sale in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “Oh, they have everything ... you just can’t do the whole thing in one day,” she said. A few of her pachyderm pieces are souvenirs from vacation destinations. The elephants sit among photos of Colatruglio’s great grandchildren and in various places around her home. She recalled a time when a grandson was visiting and taking delight in discovering all the elephants. Perhaps the people associated with her collection are as important to this collector as the objects themselves. Many were gifts from loved ones, such as the bowl with etched elephants around its circumference, from her son Tony and daughter-in-law Paulette. Colatruglio said she uses the bowl on holidays to serve “something red.” Older son Daniel bought his mother a planter and a jade elephant pendant. When Colatruglio broke her collar bone some years ago, her sister presented a large stuffed elephant. Later, a broken ankle brought

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A brown elephant, seen at upper left, serves as a suncatcher. Above, a ceramic elephant holds a large plant, with a small figure hanging on the edge of the pot. On the opposite page, elephant salt and pepper shakers sit on the stove at upper left. The stuffed elephants in the main photo are part of Colatruglio’s collection. At the bottom of the page is a figure with bandaged leg and whimsical candle holder.

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PHOTOS BY MARYANN KROMER

At left, Rafaela Stanfield displays selections of her international dolls. The photo on the following page shows Diane Bennett’s “Wild Wood Baby,” seen at left, which has a resin body that resembles wood. Three porcelain Bleuette reproductions have detailed costumes complete with tiny undergarments. Originating in Paris, France, Bleuettes were based on a magazine character. The vinyl baby doll dates from 1956.

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Dolls lead to collection of collectors Enthusiasts are part of club that formed in 1970 BY MARYANN KROMER

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Children have been playing with dolls probably since the dawn of civilization. Dolls that have survived the treatment of their youthful owners often end up in the hands of adults who restore, preserve and appreciate the artistry and historical value of these former toys. In the present day, names such as Barbie, Cabbage Patch Kids, American Girl and Monster High readily come to mind; however, doll collectors may have hundreds of dolls by less-familiar companies and artists. Local doll enthusiasts organized the Sandusky River Valley Doll Collectors’ Club in 1970 and chartered it in 1971. Its current members are from Attica, Carey, Monroeville, Tiffin, Vanlue, Old Fort, Bowling Green, Willard and Oregon, Ohio. At a recent meeting, several members brought their favorite dolls and shared information about their collections. Also attending was former

member Jean Wolfe, who provided some history of the group. She said before being admitted to the club, a person had to attend three club meetings and have a member examine her doll collection. “You had to be voted into the club, and you could not miss three meetings in a row,” Wolfe said. Another long-time member, Deb Johnson, explained that the annual dues include a subscription to “Doll News” magazine. She spoke about the annual doll shows the club hosted for more than 30 years at local venues. Those were discontinued in recent years. “Once someone asked me what we do at our meetings,” said Cher Bibler. Lois Berger said members take turns giving a program each month. It usually involves doing research on a specific kind of doll or artist. Members are encouraged to bring in parts of their own collections that relate to the presentation or theme. Johnson noted the programs often inspire new ideas. She added the club has a picnic in June and a December dinner meeting at which

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Cher Bibler poses with a few of her dolls. The felt doll was crafted in a workshop.

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they collect a donation for a local charity. Sandusky Valley is affiliated with the United Federation of Doll Clubs, which stages an annual convention in the United States. Wolfe said she attended every doll convention except one from 1989 to 2001. Activities included displays, a competition and limited edition “convention dolls” available for purchase. “(The conventions) are fun and you learn a lot, but they’re expensive,” Bibler said. Rafaela Stanfield said she has learned about American culture through doll collecting. A native of Ecuador, she came to the United States in 1989 and began her collection with a brunette Barbie from 1964. Stanfield said she discovered the children’s stories about Raggedy Ann and Andy, which led her to acquire versions of those dolls, as well. Since then, Stanfield has been acquiring international dolls representing various countries, ethnic groups and seasonal festivals. A favorite doll of hers is dressed as a bride from Mongolia. “This is how they dress in the Andes (Mountains),” she said, pointing out a doll from her native country. Although Wolfe has left the club, she says she still has more than 300 dolls “in cabinets all over the house and packed in the basement.” They include four original Shirley Temple dolls, which debuted in 1934, according to www.collectorsweekly.com. Wolfe said she will let her granddaughters pick out the ones they want. Dolls also occupy much of the space in Madelyn Smith’s home. She said her favorite is a 1920s German bisque, but she also has dolls from France with human hair. Smith said her collection came mostly from auctions. “I turned my girls’ room

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into a doll room. The beds are covered (with dolls),” she said. The collection of Cher Bibler includes dolls such as an allwooden doll from the early 1900s, and dolls that were handmade in artists’ workshops. “My mom didn’t approve of Barbie,” Bibler said. She also has constructed her own dolls from kits that are based on Early American cloth dolls. She said she buys “whatever looks cool at the time.” Starting in childhood, Carole Miller has continued to collect dolls into the present day. She has Barbie and Cabbage Patch Kids, which first appeared in 1959 and 1977, respectively, according to www.dollreference.com. One entire room of Miller’s home is devoted to dolls by well-known

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Above, Lois Berger pulls back a doll’s dress to exposes its papier mache body. At left are four are Berger’s favorites. Standing on the left is a doll produced by Recknagel Alexandrienthal in Germany. She made the one standing on the right with its side-glancing “Googly eyes.” Berger made the clothing for the two smaller dolls, which were made in Japan. The girl is a Nippon doll.

artists. “Because they’re the ones that really made them,” Miller said. “I wanted a few of each kind ... I went to Toledo and bought showcases for them.” In addition to collecting all kinds of dolls, current club president Diane Bennett also repairs and constructs dolls. A club member for 12 or 13 years, Bennett said her hobby started when her father decided she had outgrown her dolls. “When I was a kid, my dad made me get rid of all of them when I was 10 or 11,” she explained. Having started her collection in the 1980s, Bennett now has more than 500 dolls. Some are American Character dolls, made between 1919 and 1968, according to

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Deb Johnson (ponytail) shows off her composition baby dolls and an ornate doll dressed in French finery.

www.dollreference.com. The website states the company produced dolls such as Campbell Kids, Betsy McCall, Tiny Tears and characters from “I Love Lucy” and other popular television programs. In 1989, Lois Berger started making reproduction dolls, using doll supply catalogs. At one time, she had more than 300 dolls, Berger said, but now she is trying to sell them. One of her favorites is a china doll manufactured by Recknagel of Alexandrienthal, Germany. Production ran from

1886-1930. “She needs a mohair wig,” Berger said. “These dolls (in photo) were purchased either at an antique mall or flea market.” Nippon is a Japanese company that produced bisque dolls from 1891-1921. The website nipponcollectorsclub.com says Nippon copied popular German dolls and made some new designs, as well. As a child, Deb Johnson said she only had “a couple small dolls” of her own to play with, but her current collection numbers more

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Carole Miller’s Cabbage Patch Kids came from Toys R Us. The smaller one was purchased in 1999 and the larger one in 2002. The dolls have soft plastic heads, yarn hair and soft bodies. Each is supposed to be unique.

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than 400. The frilly dresses and beautiful faces of her two baby dolls from the 1930s and ’40s belie their inexpensive “composition” bodies that easily deteriorate. “The body has sawdust inside. They’re lucky to have all the fingers and toes,” Johnson said. She also showed off a bisque doll she had made by combining different parts, beginning with a head she bought at a sale. Later, she found a body with bendable knees and a costume that came from France. Another novelty Johnson has is a kissing doll, much like the one a cousin owned when both girls were young. Squeezing the dolls’ outstretched arms was needed to produce the kiss. Other kissing dolls come in pairs and can be posed as if they are kissing.

The Internet has given collectors more access to the dolls they desire, information about various artists and manufacturers, and connections with other doll enthusiasts. Anyone interested in joining Sandusky River Valley Doll Club can contact Lois Berger at (419) 448-4720 or jlberger58@yahoo.com.

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35ย ย ย 3วค3วควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควควค3อด อป

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FINDLAY Reineke Honda 1033 Bright Rd., Findlay • 419-422-3511 • 1-800-233-6537 Mon-Thurs 8:30-8:00 Fri 8:30-6:00 Sat 8:30-4:00

UPPER SANDUSKY Reineke Motors, Inc. 1045 E. Wyandot Ave. Upper Sandusky • 419-294-2386 • 800-589-8079 Mon & Thurs 8:30-8:00 Tues, Wed & Fri 8:30-6:00 Sat 8:30-3:00

Reineke Ford-Lincoln 2020 W. SR 18, Tiffin • 419-447-9752 Mon-Thurs 8:30-8:00 Fri 8:30-6:00 Sat 8:30-5:00

LIMA Reineke Nissan 1350 N. Cable Rd. Lima • 419-227-7400 • 1-888-366-2506 Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9:00-8:00, Fri 9:00-6:00, Sat. 9:00-3:00

NORTH BALTIMORE Reineke Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram 207 W. Water St., North Baltimore • 855-497-5272 Mon & Thurs 7:30-7:00 Tues, Wed, Fri 7:30-6:00 Sat 8:30-2:00