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This is the first house in which our young family lived in Cambridge, Ohio. Cambridge is the county seat of Guernsey County, Ohio. The first inhabitants of the area known to so called modern man were a group of Native Americans called the Delaware. They lived on the south end of Wills Creek where my good friend Scotty Bennett and I used to roam as kids. Legend has it that as of the mid seventeen hundreds there were around twenty Delaware warriors and thirty women and children that have since moved on. I successfully rode a skateboard down this driveway on my knees while holding on to the nose with both hands. When I hit the street I piched forward onto my face the day before picture day at Oakland elementarly school. My mother applied womans make up to my facial wounds to attempt to help me save face. Two decades later the memory is as vivd as if it were yesterday. And I can still see the scars on every single one of my knuckles where they were pinned to the ground under the board as I slid.
East Central Ohio. Autumn. 2009.