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Presidents in the Woods
HIGH ON A RIDGE IN A REMOTE, HEAVILY WOODED AREA OF SOUTHEASTERN Ohio, a towering stone figure of Warren G. Harding guards a rarely traveled gravel road. Barely visible through the undergrowth a hundred feet farther down the road are strange figures carved into sandstone [...]
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Baughman Park another Lost Ohio
April 11th, 2010 
Jim Shonk Vacation 2008 Smoky MT Biltmore House
February 14th, 2010 Jim Shonk Article Audio[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This vacation had some unexpected surprises, We did the usual, dolly-wood, pigeon
forge, Mountains, Cable car,but it wasn’t until reading a flyer on things to do that we discovered the Biltmore House. The largest private residence in the USA, this was the best $40 bucks I ever spent. We [...]
Big Muskie AEP’s Goliath
February 13th, 2010 Jim Shonk Article Audio [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
One of my favorite pastimes as a teens was to to go fishing at Ohio Power Lakes. Aep.s recreatiom land were there are over 700 man maid lakes and many nature made, That in it self was a blast but the best feature for me was [...]
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Tags: aep, big muskie, coal mine, drag line, morgan county, nobal county 
3 Comments »Vacation 2007. Rockies Yellowstone, MT Rushmore
January 29th, 2008 Jim Shonk Artical Audio [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
I just thought I would share some photos from our vacation, This was something I always wanted to do, We left Ohio and drove to the Black hills of South Dakota were we saw Mt Rushmore, Then over to Bad Lands national park, We left there [...]
Posted in life it's self, spotlite Tags: bad lands, black hills, mt rushmore, rocky mountians, yellowstone No Comments »The truth about Stonewall Cemetery in Lancaster Ohio
May 1st, 2006 Jim Shonk Article Audio [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
I grew up on this road named after the Stonewall Cemetery, And ened up living in the farm house less than 1/4 behind it. We had a blast as children playing here and even more parking here as a teen.
There are several legends and myths about this [...]
Posted in psychobabble, spotlite Tags: fairfield county, lancaster ohio, stonewall cemetery 4 Comments »What happened to San Toy Ohio
April 28th, 2006 Jim Shonk Article Audio [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
While out taking a sunday drve with the wife, we stumbled upon San Toy Ohio
The town of San Toy, in Perry County, is gone now, but it has a lot left to indicate that a thriving town once stood at this intersection in the rural backwoods of [...]