There was one old store in the hollow we all called town

[austin_dern]

I moved out of the Progressive Era in my humor blog this week, sharing nothing written by the long-dead Finley Peter Dunne in the past seven days. What did I share instead? ... This stuff, enjoy:

• MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 14
• Statistics June: How Much More Popular I Am When I Let A Long-Dead Guy Write Instead Of Me
• Statistics Saturday: Don't Mind Me, Just Testing Something Here
• But I Would Like to See France In Better Shape, Is the Thing
• Alternatively, They're Playing the Home Version of Any Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Game Show
• What's Going On In Mary Worth? Does Mary Worth want us to like Wilbur? Why? April - July 2024
• Still Better Than the Time All Those Traffic Circles Crowded Into the Guest Bedroom
• MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 15

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Back in Halloweekends pictures, here's some more of the candle-and-woodworking shop, plus what's to be found outside ...

Here's the candle portion of the shop, which hasn't been nearly so interesting since Rose Stein died. I believe the bottom shelf is all pumpkin-shaped candles, which does show how good they can make those things when they want.

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And at least they do still have decapitated wax dragons, that's something nice. The hand-crafting is not done anywhere near Cedar Point anymore, though.

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Here's animal figures that are lovely and that I think are old stock from Rose Stein's tenure. I might be mistaken and they might be getting these from some animal candle factory somewhere.

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Back on out to the petting zoo that pretends to have anything to do with historic (white) Ohio farms. Here, a sheep shows the tradition of the grass being greener.

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And here's a happy-looking camel, such as you'd see all over northwestern Ohio in the 19th century, right?

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Duck on the right: 'Anyone else getting this weird vibe from the thin guy?'

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Here's a goat singing live-on-tape during a 1980s talk show!

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I liked how this pair of llamas lined up. And then ...

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I really liked the two being in line but facing almost perpendicular to one another. That's staging.

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I don't have any turkey pictures this trip; maybe the turkey was otherwise occupied. But we do have these chickens hanging around, taking care of barnyard bird duties.

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Big stretch! And a bit of chicken self-grooming.

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I think the chickens were upset I was watching them. Uhm. Sorry.

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Trivia: Around 1902 the largest United States company, US Steel, employed a quarter of a million people. The largest British employer, Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers, employed thirty thousand. Source: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Volume 34: The Ice Man From Iceland, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.