Hof Hall of Famer Gordon Greene recalls Lorain fair history
Gordon Greene 87 recalls farming from 750 acres or more and beef cattle sheep and hogs before shifting to crop farming in 1959 with his brother. He describes early 1940s Lorain County Fair visits, 4H involvement, OFMA Hall of Fame induction, fair roles, and memories of entertainers like Roy Rogers Mel Tillis and the Oak Ridge Boys at the Lorain fair.
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Lorain County Fair
Cleveland
Wellington
Elyria
Roy Rogers
Mel Tillis
Statlers
Oak Ridge Boys
Jimmy Dean
Tombstone
Pat Boone
Charlie Pride
Charlie Daniels
Kenny Rogers
Myron Floren
Jo Anne Castle
Lawrence Welk
Myron
Wooster
Bobby Burgess
Cissy King
Sissy
Mr. Green
WWII Vet Recalls 81mm Mortar Gunner Service Across Germany
The speaker describes enlisting in 1944 and serving as an 81mm mortar gunner in a halftrack after the Battle of the Bulge. He details rapid German campaigns, armor retraining, crossing the Rhine on a sinking pontoon bridge, and marrying Karae before shipping overseas in 1944.
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Remagen
Rhine
Underworld Awakening opens at No. 1 with 25.4M box office
Kate Beckinsale returns as Selene in the fourth Underworld film, which debuted at number one with an estimated 25.4 million dollars. The 3-D and IMAX release accounted for 3.8 million of the total, a record for IMAX digital runs. The weekend box office also saw Red Tails in second with 19.1 million and Contraband third with 12.2 million.
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Los Angeles
Kate Beckinsale
Sony Screen Gems
Beckinsale
Selene
Sony
Rory Bruer
Midwest
East Coast
Bruer
George Lucas
Tuskegee
20Th Century Fox
U.S
Hollywood.com
Nominees named for National Book Critics Circle awards
The National Book Critics Circle announced five finalists in six categories led by Jeffrey Eugenides for The Marriage Plot and James Gleick for The Information. Biography honors include Manning Marable for Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention and John Lewis Gaddis for George Kennan An American Life.
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New York
Jeffrey Eugenides
James Gleick
Manning Marable
Eugenides
Dana Spiotta
Teju Cole
The
Critics Circle
NBCC
Chad Harbach
Art of Fielding
Karen Russell
Amanda Foreman
Britain
Adam Hochschild
Maya Jasanoff
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Marable
Malcolm X
John Lewis Gaddis
George E Kennan
Mary Gabriel
Karl
Jenny Marx
Paul Hendrickson
Hemingway
Ezra E Vogel
Deng Xiaoping
China
Gabriel
Diane Ackerman
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Clifford
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