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About CharlieClaywell

I have been a writer for years, mainly as a reporter, but I have always enjoyed history, especially non-mainstream stories buried inside old documents. My blog mostly centers around those stories. On occasion, though, I deviate and talk about my dog, vintage toys and what it's like to be middle-aged.

Bizarre House Egging Baffles Police In Ohio Town

If it were just a casual egging of someone’s home, it could probably be dismissed as a silly prank, but for more than a year, an 85-year-old Euclid, Ohio man has tolerated a weekly onslaught of eggs, and other items, hitting the front of his home.

Even though the vandalism seems to follow a relatively steady timetable, police are unable to catch the culprit(s) and have even upped the ante by offering a $1,000 reward.

According to the AP story,

“The house has been pelted with eggs several times a week — sometimes more than once a day — for the past year. The attacks always happen after dark and last around 10 minutes each.”

The assailant(s) has even been brazen enough to attack the home when police officers were present.

“The guilty parties don’t appear to be intimidated by police interest in the case. An officer last year was taking a report when a barrage of eggs was launched at the house. One hit him in the foot.”

You can read complete coverage of the story, here, courtesy of Cleveland.com.

Categories: Weird News

5 Great Quotes From Books I’ve Read — Or I’m Currently Reading

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The Meaning of Life — Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.


16437027630_e8e53e25be_mThe Measure of My Days — by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Hardihood is a quality supposedly created by difficulty, and I have always felt it to be a simulating virtue. I like people who have it, and that must mean I like people who have been disciplined by hardship, which is true. I find them realistic, not easily daunted, and they make few childish claims.


Augustine’s Confession: A Biography — Gary Wills

Lord, give me chastity and self-control, but not just yet.


16397415789_63f9dc2b70_mThe Power Elite — by C. Wright Mills

Whatever else it may mean, freedom means that you have the power to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, and how you want to do it. And in American society the power to do what you want, when you want, requires money. Money provides power and power provides freedom.


The Wisdom of FDR — edited by Dagobert D. Runes

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government…Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship.

Categories: Books I have read

Ginseng regulations considered in Ohio

Ginseng was at the core of a manslaughter case from a few years back in Preble County — as mentioned in the final paragraph of this post. You can read about the case and sentencing in this article: http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-law/plea-deal-to-end-ginseng-slaying-case/nWtB8/

Categories: Family History