Writer's note: In the last installment of the "Baseball, Ohio" story, we examined the community split over the name for the newly merged villages of Baltimore and Basilin 1947. The name drawing the most attention was "Baseball." We have examined part of the pro 'Baseball" side offered by the residents in 1947. This installment will look at the reasons in opposition offered by a former resident who maintained some investment in the community. (On March 20, 1947, the Retain the

Baltimore has been blessed with nearly eighty years of local newspaper coverage of the stories of our community. One such story happened sev

Almost fifty-four years ago, in September 1964, workers at the Educator Biscuit Company in Lowell, Massachusetts carefully packed thousands of crackers in this airtight container to be stored underground as a desperate last measure against starvation in case of a nuclear attack. Of course, the nuclear attack never came, and this case of survival crackers disappeared into a storage space at the Baltimore Community Museum. Recently unearthed during an extensive and ongoing inve