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No Trespassing Signs Were Rare Then in My Youth
In a rural Ohio town I recall fields without signs allowing boys to roam. We crossed fences, claimed walnuts and blackberries, built cabins, and kept unwritten rules with farmers as casual neighbors. Later I saw posted woods that felt forbidding, and now signs fill the world, though I still remember the open woods.
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Ohio
Ashtabula
Registrar of Deeds
Dixon’s Woods
Cleveland
Robert W. Wells
Christian Science Monitor
Dixon's