Salmagundi

  Henry Wersell and his Bird Store                                         by Alan Borer   Henry Wersell and a monkey outside his store. (...

  Asking for a Wishbone from the President                                                 by Alan Borer                         As a b...

There is not much left of Iler, Ohio.   Sitting roughly between Fostoria and Bettsville in Seneca County, Iler is a tad south of State Rou...

  by Alan Borer               When you have new neighbors, you must be careful if they come from a different culture.   They may dress, ...

[The Chinese laundry was part of the urban scene in the early twentieth century.] Browsing through an old issue of the Otterbein College  Ta...

                Many languages assign genders to nouns.   German, French, Italian, and others all give their nouns a gender.  For example, ...

                    It seems like we all have disease and medicine on our minds these days.  It has been awhile since we faced a disease th...