On Buckeye Lake - Longhunter's Rest

MAY

28

2019

Soul Food

Even at 1:30 in the morning, the Wal-Mart parking lot in a small Appalachian town is never deserted. A sheriff’s cruiser slowly checks ...

AUG

14

2018

Gold Bond Pals

Years ago, an ambitious truck dealership deep in the heart of the Great Lakes states ran an autumn advertising campaign which read, “If you ...

APR

09

2018

7 Come 11: Bet the Breeder

I refuse to believe it’s a crapshoot. Each time it’s my turn to choose, I have a plan. I have science. I have research. I ...

MAR

29

2018

The Leash That Runs Both Ways

A late summer afternoon steams over the raucous lakefront restaurant. The bass player Dan and I are on break, giving the evening’s ...

DEC

21

2017

The Animals Talk At Midnight

My great-grandmother, Ella Nora Dennig, was a first generation German American, a strong-willed woman reared with an ironclad Teutonic sense of ...

SEP

14

2017

Papa Boo's Trivia And The Tale of an ...

For me, it is the stuff of nightmares: a question I’ve written for Wednesday Night Trivia that is not just wrong, but simply, utterly ...

AUG

12

2017

Bobbing For Shovelhead

Bobbing For Shovelheadby Randy LawrenceOn the drive home from the Friday night Canal Street market in Newark, laden with exotic jam, seasonings, and ...

APR

17

2017

Paul Clark: The Party Rolls On

The places and names trip off his tongue the way hot drum licks did from his sticks, back in the day. Oiled by a sunny April ...

APR

05

2017

Golf Balls, Bottles, Beer Cans And A ...

In “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost claims that “Good fences make good neighbors.” Sometimes, so do ...

MAR

30

2017

A Thundershirt For Boots

When I inherited Boots, a Labrador from British bloodlines, he was extremely gun nervous. He cringed at the blank gun during training sessions, ...

MAR

20

2017

Ducks Over A Midnight Rose

She was too much of everything. Too expensive…too green…and much too tall.But we were horseback all the time then, trail riding, ...

MAR

16

2017

The New Glory Days On Buckeye Lake

A blustery day in March nudged two old friends into the Buckeye Lake Brewery for a "shot of Hennosy," St. Patrick's Day Plans, and a toast ...

MAR

10

2017

So Who Was the Real Papa Boo?

“Bonesetter, Bonesetter, We’ve come to see the Bonesetter. So when you’re feelin’ blue just come to Papa Boo, ...

MAR

07

2017

Where The Buffalo Roam

By the time Christopher Gist mapped what the Shawnee and Delaware tribes called “the great buffalo swamp” in 1751, bison were still ...

FEB

28

2017

Wednesday Night Trivia Gets Borned

I think it started early in the spring, maybe in March, well before we open now. You can ask Mike Diamond over at the Tiki Bar with TBA. ...

FEB

25

2017

By Any Other Name

Scooped by a glacier in retreat, it was named the Great Buffalo Swamp by the Shawnee and Delaware who hunted the game rich wetlands left ...