Archive for the ‘1812 Bicentennial’ Category

Kuron: Battles on the bluff

By Frank Kuron on Friday, May 3rd, 2013

I’ve always enjoyed camping. A few days with loved ones in the solitude of the…

Kuron: History — an opinion

By Frank Kuron on Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Do you know which political party I belong to? If I follow a particular…

Kuron: Remember the Raisin

By Frank Kuron on Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Usually, I try to begin these columns with some clever anecdote from my life, which…

Lecture series, Founders’ Day among events planned at Fort Meigs

By Sarah Ottney on Friday, January 11th, 2013

Many significant events took place in Northwest Ohio and the Great Lakes region during the…

Commemoration weekend features re-enactments, music and more

By Brigitta Burks on Friday, January 11th, 2013

Historical re-enactors and musicians will help eventgoers travel through time Jan. 19 and 20 to…

Newsmakers: Navy Week sails to Toledo for first time

By Matt Liasse on Friday, December 28th, 2012

Before 2012, there hadn’t been U.S. Navy ships in the Great Lakes since 1999.
That…

Kuron: Sailing impatiently into 1813

By Frank Kuron on Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

There’s a four-letter word, and when I hear it, it makes me absolutely manic! No,…

Christmas 1812 – No shirt, no shoes, yet service

By Frank Kuron on Thursday, December 6th, 2012

“Hick’ry roots roasting on an open fire … Jack Frost snipping off your toes …

Kuron: Little Turtle, foe turned friend

By Frank Kuron on Sunday, November 18th, 2012

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… Remember David Bowie’s chart-topping song? Change is inevitable, we all know it. One discerning…

Kuron: An SOS, 1812 Style

By Frank Kuron on Friday, October 19th, 2012

My dad served in WWII and occasionally made something called SOS for us kids. You…

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