Celina, Ohio, Farms and Family


Today we drove to Celina ,Ohio, but on the way we stopped for an little historic adventure.

In a little town called Fremont Ohio, we found the home of our 19Th President, Rutherford B Hayes. The home is called Spiegel Grove and is also the site of a museum and his library. The museum has some great exhibits about Hayes and his wife Lemonade Lucy. She was called Lemonade Lucy because she refused to serve liquor in the White House. There are not many of our friends who would be happy at one of her parties.

Celina Ohio, by the Grand Lake, is the home of Mary Ann Coppage's, mine and now Gail's relates, hundreds of them. We met a bunch, at a local restaurant called Pullman's, great pie.

Gail was treated to a tour of the family farms. The farm my Mom spend her childhood. The one the Coppage boys used to visit every summer. Gail even saw the building we built one summer and that Jeff spilled a pot of glue on his cousin Gene's head, he was never the same since, Jeff not Genie. There are hundreds of Celina stories to tell.


Tomorrow we head for Springfield Ill. and the Land of Lincoln.