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Baseball, Ohio (Part 7)
Writer's note: At the close of Part 6, the last sentence of the Twin City News article from September 11, 1947, foretold that "the...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 6)
Writer's note: Remembering that the "Twin Cities" of Baltimore and Basil were officially "dedicated" one day apart (Baltimore, then...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 5)
Writer's note: In the last installment of this series, we provided a partial list of some of the names suggested in numerous editions of...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 4)
Writer's note: In Part 4 of the story of the Baltimore and Basil merger, we will complete the letter from the former resident with...


New Deal Brings Peace to Rival Ohio Towns
Originally published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Magazine Section July 29, 1934 Written by Lewis K. Cook Basil and Baltimore, divided...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 3)
Writer's note: In the last installment of the "Baseball, Ohio" story, we examined several reasons, according to one citizen, that...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 2)
Writer's note: In the last installment of the "Baseball, Ohio" story, we examined the community split over the name for the newly merged...


Baseball, Ohio (Part 1)
Baltimore has been blessed with nearly eighty years of local newspaper coverage of the stories of our community. One such story happened sev


Since 1964...
Almost fifty-four years ago, in September 1964, workers at the Educator Biscuit Company in Lowell, Massachusetts carefully packed...


History of the "All-Purpose Survival Cracker"
Beginning in the early 1950s, the American population lived in near-constant fear of nuclear attack. As Cold War tensions progressed, the...
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