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CONTENTS
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Now & Then
Lifestyle
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Local Feature
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Car Tips
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Looking Back
Now & Then
A Delicious Tradition at Pearl Valley Cheese
Health
3 Ways to Maintain Your Mental Acuity
7 Essentials to Have in Your Vehicle Preparedness Kit
The Scotch-Irish: Who Were They?
Local Feature
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– T HE FIRST WORD– “While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch. ” – Patience Strong – Serving Southeastern Ohio
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A Delicious Tradition at Pearl Valley Cheese Story and Photos by BEVERLY KERR
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LOCAL FEATURE “This has been a great year for us! We won the 2017 Ohio Grand Champion Swiss Cheesemaker at the Ohio Swiss Festival. What a testimony to our amazing farmers, employees and especially all our customers who continually support us year after year.” – P E A R L VA L L E Y C H E E S E
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earl Valley Cheese has been a family owned business since 1928. They credit their success with farmers bringing them high quality milk, employees who all seem like family, and wonderful customers from all over the area. It’s not surprising they have won many state, national and international awards. Founded by Swiss immigrants, Ernest and Gertrude Stalder, the business depended on area farmers who brought them fresh milk in cans by horse and wagon. They purchased the building, which is still on their property today, for $700. Ernest thought it needed a little improvement so he began hauling wheelbarrow loads of bricks from a nearby source until he was satisfied with its appearance. In those early days of 1928, cheese sold for eleven cents a pound.
Photo Above: Grace Stalder and daughter, Sally Ellis, display a large piece of Swiss cheese, a favorite. Photo Top Left: Their store today is nestled in the valley along Ohio State Route 93 between Fresno and Baltic. Photo Top Right: Grace Stalder and daughter, Sally Ellis, display a large piece of Swiss cheese, a favorite. Photo Bottom Right: After the curds and whey are separated, curds are pressed into tubes and wedges.
All the milk they use today is of top quality and as safe as they can possibly buy. The milk comes from about 50 area farmers and two milk marketing co-ops. Dairy producers are very important because high quality milk makes high quality cheese. Each load is tested for antibiotics, and the whole load would be disposed of if any were ever found, but this rarely happens. Once the milk is received, they store it in cold wall silos until the time comes for it to be pasteurized to make sure bacteria counts are minimized. Then the milk is cooked in Double Os, which look like large stainless steel crock pots, holding 4000 gallons each, until the curds are formed. Around 30,000 gallons of milk are used at Pearl Valley Cheese each day, resulting in 25-30,000 pounds of cheese daily.
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LOCAL FEATURE The separated cream is sold to a butter factory in Wisconsin. Pearl Valley buys back truckloads of butter monthly to sell in their store and through its wholesalers. A pound of that delicious fresh butter came home with this gypsy. They process the whey and send it to other companies, which then dry it to use in nutritional whey protein drinks, animal feeds and other food products. Some of the excess whey is also stored at Pearl Valley in a waste water treatment plant, where it is refined into methane gas and used to create electricity for their business. Pearl Valley has gone green. Through a window to the left of the cheese store, you can watch cheese being made most weekday mornings. Giant vats of milk are turned into curds on the draining tables, and then packed into cheese rolls or wedges. Only two major cheeses are made here: Swiss and Cheddar, four different kinds of each. At the end of the day,
everything is cleaned and sanitized to maintain their high standards. Swiss cheese is often more expensive because it takes more time to make. Once blocks of Swiss are formed, they are then soaked in a salt brine to absorb a small amount of salt. After this they are placed in a warming room at 76 degrees Fahrenheit. The cheese is placed in
Photo Bottom Left: Their original factory sat in the parking lot of today’s Pearl Valley Cheese. Photo Below Top: The curds and whey are separated on this draining table by churning arms. Photo Below Bottom: This was the original copper kettle used in the factory until WWII. Photo Right: There’s even a close-by playground for children to enjoy.
Ohio is the largest producer of Swiss cheese in the nation. While several local places make Swiss Cheese, the Stalder family f e e l s Pe a r l Va l l e y m a k e s i t better than anyone else. Their Mild Swiss Cheese is an area favorite.
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their extended family. Grace shared her story of joining the Stalder family 60 years ago when she married John, the son of Ernest and Gertrude. The next morning Ernest was at their door telling Grace she needed to total lines of figures that very day. She’s been working there ever since. They feel with all their experience, they know how to make cheese the very best way. Even though they have a retail store, they want your experience to be more than a buying adventure. They want to educate you on how the cheese is made from farm to table. Customers enjoy their friendly service with plenty of free cheese samples so you can always get a taste before buying. Prices are extremely reasonable so people come back again and again. Everyone has their favorites from Baby Swiss to Extra Sharp Cheddar. Visit soon and try to decide your favorite from so many choices. Make your visit a special memory and start the tradition of visiting Pearl Valley Cheese with your family.
wooden crates where it “creates the holes.” Those round holes are caused by carbon dioxide bubbles in the cheese, and take weeks to appear. Ohio is the largest producer of Swiss cheese in the nation.While several local places make Swiss Cheese, the Stalder family feels Pearl Valley makes it better than anyone else. Their Mild Swiss Cheese is an area favorite. Four generations of that Swiss family are still working Contact Bev at GypsyBev@hotmail.com or follow her blog there today headed up by John and Grace Stalder and at www.GypsyRoadTrip.com
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ging is associated with or linked to a host of mental and physical side effects. For example, many adults expect their vision to deteriorate as they grow older. Such a side effect can be combatted with routine eye examinations that may indicate a need for a stronger eyeglass prescription, a relatively simple solution that won’t impact adults’ daily lives much at all. While physical side effects like diminished vision might not strike much fear in the hearts of aging men and women, those same people may be concerned and/ or frightened by the notion of age-related cognitive decline. Some immediately associate such decline with Alzheimer’s disease, an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys memory and cognitive skills, ultimately compromising a person’s
So while many adults may be concerned about Alzheimer’s because one of their parents had the disease, the NIA notes that the majority of Alzheimer’s cases are late-onset, which has no obvious family pattern.
ability to perform even the simplest of tasks. But agerelated cognitive decline is not always symptomatic of Alzheimer’s disease. Learning about Alzheimer’s and how to maintain mental acuity can help aging men and women better understand the changes their brains might be undergoing as they near or pass retirement age.
plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but such lifestyles decreases the likelihood that the presence of plaques or tangles will impair cognitive function. • Stay socially connected. Maintaining social connections with family, friends and community members also can help women prevent cognitive decline. Epidemiologist Bryan James of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center studied how social activity affected cognitive decline, ultimately noting that the rate of cognitive decline was considerably lower among men and women who maintained social contact than it was among those with low levels of social activity.
Is Alzheimer’s disease hereditary? The National Institute on Aging notes that only a very rare form of Alzheimer’s disease is inherited. Earlyonset familial Alzheimer’s disease, or FAD, is caused by mutations in certain genes. If these genes are passed down from parent to child, then the child is likely, but not certain, to get FAD. So while many adults may be concerned about Alzheimer’s because one of their parents had the disease, the NIA notes that the majority of Alzheimer’s cases are late-onset, which has no obvious The idea of age-related cognitive decline strikes fear family pattern. in the hearts of many men and women, but there are ways for adults to maintain their mental acuity well into Can Alzheimer’s disease be prevented? their golden years. Studies of Alzheimer’s disease are ongoing, but to date there is no definitive way to prevent the onset of the disease. How can I maintain mental acuity as I age? Researchers have not yet determined a way to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, but adults can take certain steps to maintain their mental acuity into retirement.
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RECIPES
Ice cream may be a cold treat for these chilly months, but this recipe is full of warm winter spices that are perfect for the season Chai Ice Cream
Ingredients: 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 4 slices fresh ginger root 1 tablespoon whole allspice berries 1 tablespoon whole cloves 12 whole green cardamom pods
Serves: 6
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1. In a large, heavy saucepan, bring the cream and milk to a boil with the spices, sugar and honey. Add the tea and reduce mixture to a simmer. Remove from heat and infuse the tea for about 5 minutes. Sieve out solids and return liquid to saucepan. 2. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks and temper them by combining with a cup of the cream mixture. Add the whisked egg yolks to the saucepan and whisk together over medium heat until slightly thickened. The mixture should coat the back of a spoon Using an instant-read thermometer, monitor the temperature of the mixture so it does not exceed 190 F. Do not overcook or the mixture will curdle. 3. Pour through a fine-meshed sieve into a bowl placed over a larger bowl of ice. Stir the mixture until cool and then place in refrigerator or freezer to chill further, about 15 minutes. Add salt and vanilla to blend. 4. Freeze using an old-fashioned ice cream maker filled with ice and salt, or freeze in a crank-type ice cream machine using a canister that has been frozen as per the manufacturer’s directions. 5. This recipe is exquisite alone, but even more delicious over poached Bosc pears (see photo).
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Spaghetti is a staple of many family dinner tables. But home cooks who want to venture away from traditional pasta without giving up their love of marinara can try the following, zucchini-inspired alternative. Z’paghetti Marinara with Shrimp
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7. Transfer packet contents to a large bowl, and toss to mix.
28 ounces (about 4 medium) zucchini 8 ounces (about 16) raw large shrimp, peeled, tails removed and deveined 1⁄4 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder 1⁄8 teaspoon black pepper 1 cup homemade or jarred marinara sauce 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
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RECIPES
There’s few winter comforts as rejuvenating as a hearty and hot beef stew. Grab a bowl and spoon and enjoy this delicious recipe,
Hearty Beef Stew
Ingredients:
leaves, thyme, parsley, and peppercorns and add to the bowl. Pour in the bottle of wine. 2 pounds beef shoulder, cut into Cover and let marinate in the 2-inch pieces (see note) refrigerator overnight, stirring 1 onion, cut into large dice the mixture once or twice over 2 carrots, cut into large dice the course of the evening. 2 stalks celery, cut into large dice 2. The next day, remove the meat from the marinade and dry the 2 dried bay leaves pieces in a shallow pan lined 4 sprigs fresh thyme with several layers of paper 7 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley towels. Remove the vegetables 1⁄4 teaspoon black peppercorns and reserve them separately, along with the bouquet garni. 1 bottle red wine Reserve the wine. Season the Salt beef with salt and pepper. Freshly ground black pepper 3. In a large Dutch oven over 1 tablespoon canola oil medium heat, warm the canola oil. Add the bacon and cook until 1⁄4 pound slab bacon, cut into large browned and the fat is rendered, dice about 5 minutes. Remove the 1⁄2 stick unsalted butter bacon from the pot and set 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour aside. In single-layer batches, brown the beef chunks on all 4 cups beef stock sides, then set aside. Brown the 2 large Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled reserved onions, carrots and and cut into large dice celery, about 10 minutes. Add 1 pound pearl onions, blanched and additional canola oil to the pot peeled if there is not enough bacon 1 pound button mushrooms, diced fat to brown all of the beef and vegetables. 4. Return the beef to the pot with the vegetables and add 1. Put the beef chunks in a large 3 tablespoons of the butter. bowl and add the onion, Sprinkle with the flour and cook, carrots and celery. In a piece stirring, for about 3 minutes. of cheesecloth, tie together Add the reserved wine and a bouquet of garni of the bay deglaze the pot, scraping up
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Serves: 6 generously
all the browned bits from the bottom. Add the bacon and stock and bring to a boil. Skim off the scum that rises to the top; once the scum is removed, add the bouquet garni. Simmer, covered, over medium-low heat until the beef is very tender, about 11⁄2 hours. Remove the bouquet garni. 5. Toward the end of the beef’s cooking time, bring the potatoes to a boil in a separate saucepan covered generously with salted water. Cook until tender, about 15 minutes. 6. In a medium sauté pan, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter over medium-high heat. Add the pearl onions and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the mushrooms to the onions and cook until both onions and mushrooms are golden brown, about 5 minutes longer. Season to taste with salt and pepper. 7. Serve the stew in bowls, garnished with the pearl onions, mushrooms and potatoes. * Note: When shopping for beef, you won’t find a cut labeled “beef shoulder” — what you want is either a chuck roast of some sort or, from a bit lower on the shoulder, a cut labeled either “arm roast” or “round bone roast.”
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LOOKING BACK
THE SCOTCH-IRISH:
WHO WERE THEY? “If t h e En g l i s h b u r n o u r h o u s e s, w h at consequence is it to us? We c an rebuild them cheap e n o u g h , fo r we require only three days to do so.” — insightful quote on S cottish homes, circa 1600, from W. Notestein’s The S cot in Histor y
Southeastern Ohio is awash in Scotch-Irish ancestry – pioneers and settlers who made their way here in the very early 1800s. Some of my own ancestors were among them. But who were they? And why do they have two countries in their name instead of one? I had always heard that they Story by RICK BOOTH were people who came to America from Ireland, but whose own ancestors had come to Ireland from Scotland about a century earlier. So basically, they were ethnic Scots from Ireland. That, indeed, is their essential story, but the details are far more complicated. This article tries to untangle the quite unusual story of how the Scotch-Irish came to be. It all started when a
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prisoner escaped from a castle! By the end of the year 1602, nobleman Con O’Neill, one of the largest landowners in what is today Northern Ireland, had a huge problem: England’s Queen Elizabeth I wanted to kill him. The trouble started when he threw a Christmas party and ran out of wine. He had sent some servants into Belfast to pick up some more, but they ran into some English soldiers on the way back to the party. When Con found out that the soldiers had chosen to “liberate” the wine from the servants, he was outraged and ordered his men to go back and attack. In the ensuing skirmish, some English soldiers died, and Con was arrested for “levying war against the Queen.” For centuries, Ireland had been subject to English rule. Irish nobility answered to the King or Queen of England, and English troops were stationed in Ireland to enforce that relationship while trying to keep the peace. Con, the owner of huge swaths of land at the northeast tip of Ireland, was in deep trouble for attacking and killing English troops. Held prisoner in Carrickfergus Castle, nine miles up the coast from Belfast, it seemed it was the clear intent of Queen Elizabeth I to have him executed for the crime. But then, just three months after the felonious wine fight, Elizabeth died. Con was left in death row limbo! At the time Elizabeth died, she was Queen of two separate countries. England and Wales were considered a single country, as was Ireland. Scotland, however, was separate and not then ruled by the Queen. Upon her death without children, however, one of her closest royal relatives inherited
the throne, and he just happened to be‌ the King of Scotland! Suddenly King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England and Ireland. The Scottish king now had three countries to rule over. He also had to figure out what to do with Con O’Neill.
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The British Isles King James ruled in 1603.
It seems King James was sufficiently busy taking over control of new kingdoms that he was in no hurry to decide what to do with prisoner Con O’Neill. Con languished in the castle for months and then years, but his wife came up with a plot to set him free. Since the Scottish King now controlled things, perhaps surrendering most of Con’s land to a Scottish landlord could win a pardon from the king. After all, the Scottish coast was within just a short twenty-mile ship ride across the water. Con’s wife contacted an aristocrat named Hugh Montgomery, who lived in the coastal Scottish Lowlands nearest Ireland. She proposed to give him half of Con’s land in Ireland if he would obtain a pardon from the king for her husband. Montgomery agreed to the plan and decided to break Con O’Neill out of the castle as a first step. In 1604, he sent an agent to Ireland who proceeded to date the jailer’s daughter, arrange for a drunken party as a distraction, sneak a rope to prisoner Con, and have a boat waiting for him outside the castle. When Con shimmied down the rope, he was spirited away to Scotland to make good on the deal. Hugh Montgomery and Con O’Neill then travelled
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to London together to ask King James’ approval of the land deal in exchange for Con’s pardon. Another Scottish aristocrat named James Hamilton, however, got wind of the deal and horned his way into it as well. There was then to be a three-way split of the Irish land instead. King James already had two decades of experience ruling Scotland, so he knew better than to just rubber-stamp proposals when they came in the door to him. He thought about the deal and decided to modify it so that he could kill two or three birds with one stone. He would send Scottish immigrants into Ireland! King James knew there had been a lot of civil wars going on in the northern part of Ireland for years. The wars had devastated both the people and the countryside there, so that a lot of Con’s land was actually uninhabited. It was also expensive to keep sending English troops to Ireland to keep order. Why not make it a condition of the land deal that
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Scotch-Irish continued from pg 17 the new Scottish owners of Con’s holdings only allow people from England and Scotland to settle the land. For that matter, go ahead and push any Irish tenant farmers off their parcels if they’re already living there. It would just be so much easier and inexpensive to rule that part of Ireland, he thought, if manageable people lived there instead of the chronically troublesome Irish who caused him military expense. The deal was finally inked in April, 1605. The next year, 1606, marked the start of the Scottish migration into Ireland. Though both Englishmen and Scots were invited to settle in Ireland, the Scots lived much closer and saw more potential to improve their living condition than did the English. Consequently, most of the settlers were Scottish. In fact, things worked out so well with that immigration experiment and the nearly simultaneous 1607 founding and colonization of Jamestown in America that King James decided
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to dispossess a few more big Irish landowners he disliked in the northeast corner of Ireland. In 1610, therefore, he declared the entire region to be the “Plantation of Ulster,” land open for immigration. Scotland in the early 1600s was a very poor country, far more backward at that time than was most of England. The clans of the far north Highlands were often described as outlaw “savages” by the English, who considered the Lowlanders only slightly more civilized. The Protestant Reformation – Calvinist style – had only recently swept through the country in the second half of the 1500s, bringing with it increased literacy and education among the largely poor agrarian Scottish people. Factional fights among themselves plus border conflicts with England had stymied cultural development and investment – even investment in good permanent
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housing. Why invest in a house and barn if someone’s going to take it from you in a year or two? Most of the Lowlanders were quite poor, living in one-room, dirt-floored, stone-sod-and-thatch houses that they literally shared with their cattle and sheep at night! If the houses were knocked down or burned, at least the stones would still be there, and it wouldn’t take long to rebuild. It was mostly the Lowland Scots, those closest to Ireland, who took the bait and saw the opportunity for a better life across the waters. Known initially as the Ulster Scots, these immigrants’ descendants would go on to become America’s Scotch-Irish when many migrated again in the 1700s. The indigenous population of Ireland at the time Scottish immigration started was uniformly Catholic. The Scots were almost entirely Presbyterian Protestants. The two cultures did not mix well then, just as they do not mix particularly well now in Northern Ireland, where political difficulty is constant and often violent. Indeed, today’s Northern Ireland is the direct descendant of the Plantation of Ulster colonization effort initiated by King James – the same King James who ordered the Protestant Bible translated into English in the first year of his reign over all the British Isles. (He also, incidentally, burned witches, having earlier written a book entitled Daemonologie concerning how to catch ‘em!) A side effect of the colonization of a part of Ireland with Scots and Englishmen was that it attracted English investment. They drained swamps to create more good farmland. Then the Industrial Revolution came to this part of Ireland first. Belfast grew to be an intensely industrial city. Because sheep did well on the land, Ulster became a major supplier of woolen textiles. In fact, the wool business became so good that England had to artificially clamp down on Ulster’s exports to protect the native English textile industry. In some ways, the Ulster Scots had become too successful, leading to their being treated like second-class citizens of the British Isles with respect to trade policy, which favored England first. This was just one of the problems that began to push the populace towards thoughts of leaving for America. When the wool trade was suppressed, farmers switched to growing flax for linen. They did well
LOOKING BACK in that business, too, and the textile trade kept going. By the early 1700s, though, there were a number of social problems getting people to think of leaving. Most farmers did not own the land they worked on. They rented it. Absentee landlords, out for top buck, were raising the rents as high as they could, a side effect of the colony’s success. Though Ireland had the same king as England, it had its own separate parliament. That largely Catholic parliament passed new rules about how all church services must be run, which upset the Presbyterians and even forced many of their ministers out. Then came drought and famine.
1717 and 1775 (the start of the Revolutionary War) an estimated 200,000 or more Ulster Scots came to America. Nearly all had been born in Ireland, but they still held to their ancestral Scottish roots. Most landed at or near Philadelphia and sought land to the west or southwest for their new homes. Before the American Revolution, many of the Ulster Scots are believed to have paid for their passage to America by selling themselves as indentured servants. Similar in some ways to slave auctions in the American South, ship owners would auction off those they allowed to board their ships for free. It wasn’t a trick; it was simply how the poor knowingly bought passage. The comparison with slave auctions, though, ends there. Indentured servants had laws to protect them, and their terms of service usually ranged from four to seven years, after which they were free. Most were expected to be taught a trade and be given tools of that trade at the end of their service. Some were even promised Scotch-Irish continues on pg 20
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Ireland suffered a particularly bad run of drought years from 1714 through 1720. This was not the famous Potato Famine, which came more than a century later, but the poor crops in those years caused famine and poverty nonetheless. Besides being unable to grow enough food, flax for the textile trade was in short supply as well. Money was scarce, and people began to starve. It was in the fourth year of drought, 1717, that the big break for America came. Why not, the Ulster Scots thought, migrate yet again to a new “land of milk and honey” in America? After all, it worked once before! In many cases, Presbyterian ministers led the way, suggesting that they and their flocks go to America together for a better life. Thousands left in 1717, and thousands more the next year. In fact, between
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Scotch-Irish continued from pg 19 fifty acres of land. What a deal! It is from a mix of the Ulster Scots who could afford to pay for the ocean trip and those who sold themselves into indentured servitude that the Scotch-Irish of America were born. As an immigrant group, they were second only to the English in numbers during the Colonial Era, and probably just slightly ahead of the Germans. The urge to move on to greener pastures seems to have become part of the Scotch-Irish nature, in that the Scotch-Irish who settled in Southeastern Ohio, largely in the early 1800s, came here not primarily straight from the boat, but from earlier homes in Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Virginia. Most were likely the second or even third generation in America. As Northern Ireland lost much of its Protestant population to America in the 1700s, Irish Catholics moved in. Northern Ireland today is almost equally populated with Protestants and Catholics, thanks in part to the Scotch-Irish exodus which
helped equalized the count. In 1922, the almost purely Catholic portion of Ireland achieved its independence from England, but the portion we know today as Northern Ireland remains an integral part of the United Kingdom. Here in Guernsey County, there are two communities that mark in their very names our direct descent from Scotch-Irish ancestors. Antrim and Londonderry in the northeast corner of the county bear the very names of two of the six counties that make up Northern Ireland today.
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Guernsey County’s Scotch-Irish placenames.
Antrim, a small community on Route 22 a few miles northeast of Salt Fork State Park, was founded in 1830 and named in honor of the ancestral home of some of surrounding Madison Township’s earliest settlers, which included families named Campbell, Carlisle, McBride, Hanna, and Adair. Robert Wilkin likewise platted Londonderry in 1807 and named it for the birthplace of his father. It’s curious to think how much different our county, state, and even our country might be if Con O’Neill hadn’t shimmied down a rope to escape from Carrickfergus Castle in 1604. Yes, from that single event the Scotch-Irish movement was born!
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Don didn’t really enjoy going to school. Therefore, he anxiously checked the weather to see if there might be a snow day. The wall of his room at home contained a United States map with weather highlights. While he has a degree in Natural Resources from Buckeye Vocational School in New Philadelphia, he has been keeping accurate weather records ever since January, 1979. That’s 39 years of experience. While at the vocational school, he convinced the local cable channel
to let him do a weather show headlined, Don Keating’s Channel 2 Weather, his first weather show. He has taken training with the National Weather Service through their Skywarn Weather Spotting program. But for the most part, Don is self-taught with no degree in Meteorology. His green screen set-up in his laboratory is so fantastic that it draws envy from professional meteorologists at area TV stations. While his forecasts come directly from the National Weather Service, Don will tell you that ,”Weather is not an exact science.” He has studied many video tutorials and learned much by trial and error. Even though he claims weather as his hobby, being as accurate as possible is something he’s really serious about. Don has worked hard to develop his ability to learn
“ASK ANYONE, AND THEY’LL TELL YOU THAT IF YOU WORK HARD ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING YOU WANT, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT YOU WILL GET IT.” more about the local climate forecast. He’ll often tell others, “Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that if you work hard enough for anything you want, more often than not you will get it.” His persistence has paid off. Don has served as Amateur Weathercaster for DixCom, now GateHouse, since 2011. There he has a daily video weather broadcast called Ohio Weather in 90 Seconds seen on The Daily Jeff’s website. Many followers check out his Ohio Forecast each day on Facebook as well. For the past two years he had provided weather for Boyer Simcox’s local station, WBPS at 101.9 FM. While he has forecast weather on the radio, his dream is to be a television broadcaster. His only regret in life is not going to school to become a meteorologist.
If Don has a place he would like to visit, it would be Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshire in the White Mountains. Here you would find a fantastic weather station where the weather is erratic to extremes. You’ll never find a really warm day at the top. The highest observed wind speed (231 mph) on the face of the earth was recorded at Mt. Washington in 1934. Today Don works at the Newcomerstown News in advertising, but being a television weatherman is still his dream. So if someone could use an excellent television weatherman, with a passion for the weather, give Don a call. This man feels determination is an important part of success. His advice to young people would be, “If you have your mind set on something, don’t let anyone tell you no. Study hard and follow up in college.” Next time you’re looking for an accurate weather report, try Don Keating on Facebook or on the Daily Jeffersonian’s website. At this time of year, it’s always valuable to know what to expect from Mother Nature. Contact Bev at GypsyBev@hotmail.com or follow her blog at www.GypsyRoadTrip.com
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FEB. Life Story Writers Workshop Monday February 5th Today’s moments are tomorrow’s memories. What a more precious gift than to be able to record those memories and have them as a keepsake for generations to come. This workshop will be led by Mary Fauteux, beginning on Monday, February 5th. This class will take place each Monday for 6 weeks from 10:00 AM –11:00 AM. The only supplies that you would need to bring with you will be a pen or pencil and a life story that only you can tell. If you would like to sign up for this creative class, please call (740) 439-6681. This class is limited to 15 participants. Lansing Senior Center 68583 Scott Rd, Box 353, Lansing 740-609-5109 Martins Ferry Senior Center 14 N. 5th St, Martins Ferry 740-633-3146 Monroe County Senior Services 118 Home Ave, Woodsfiled Muskingum County Center for Seniors 200 Sunrise Center Dr, Zanesville Powhatan Senior Center 97 Main St, Powhatan Point 740-795-4350 Secrest Senior Center Activities 201 High St, Senecaville 740-685-6765 St. Clairsville Senior Center 101 N. Market St, St. Clairsville 740-695-1944 Tuscarawas County Senior Center 425 Prospect St, Dover 330-364-6611 Doyle & Lillian Chumney Monthly Dance: Thursdays, January 18, February 8, and March 15 , 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Join us for a fun-filled dance at the Senior Center! Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Concession stand, raffle and 50/50. Tickets are $5.00 in advance and at the door.
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Southeastern Med’s
Lab Draw Station
Southeastern Med knows that your time is valuable. When lab testing is required to further your care, getting it done and on with your day can sometimes be a hassle. That’s why we’re opening an off-site Lab Draw Station, offering easy access and Service & Procedures affordable lab draw procedures. Our friendly, highly-trained phlebotomists can Fracture Care / Sports Medicine / Joint Replacements quickly and efficiently see you with no appointment required! Hand Surgery / Pediatric Orthopaedics At Southeastern Med, we’re proud be your destination for care. Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon with ato certificate of added qualification in Sports Medicine A Fellow of American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and AAOS
Conveniently located between Muskingum Valley Health CenterMedical (MVHC) and -Southeastern Ohio Physicians, Inc. School University of Cincinnati
Southeastern Med
Clark St.
Undergraduate Degree - Wesleyan University Southeastern Internship - Mount Carmel Medical Center, Columbus, OH Ohio Physicians Residency - George Washington University & Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Lab Draw
Station an appointment Call 740.435.2340 to schedule
316 Clark St., Cambridge, OH. Hours: Muskingum Mon. - Fri. Valley Health 6am - 2:30pm Center (MVHC)
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1352 Clark St., Cambridge, Oh 740.435.2836