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Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland to St. Philip & James Cemetery in Canal Fulton aka the Sullivans of Counties Cork, Stark and Cuyahoga
Just this past Autumn my brother Ed and I went to Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery in search of a grave site. We found the...
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Summers in Louisville
Tis the season of Lightning Bugs, or as some call them, Fireflies. Upon seeing them here in Ohio I’m reminded of summers at my...
Books
Book Review: Murder in the Cultural Gardens by Dan Hanson
A book review by JC Sullivan
First time local author Dan Hanson has crafted a murder mystery centered in Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens…or is it an...
COVID-19
The March of Dimes and the Polio Epidemic in the U.S. and COVID 19
by JC Sullivan
In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a victim of the polio scourge, championed the cause of eliminating it. He signed into law...
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BULLETS, BOMBS AND BRIBES by Rick Porello A book review by JC Sullivan
Readers should all know of Porello’s last book – To Kill the Irishman, about Cleveland mobster Danny Green, which was made into a movie....
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To the young men of the current High School Junior class in Ohio
By JC Sullivan
As a junior in one of the 900+ high schools in the state of Ohio, within a year you will be headed...
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Capital C in Corruption by JC Sullivan
What I understand about the sitting President's Ukraine phone call was an attempt to discover whether or not the Bidens were corrupt. If they...
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“ABOUT FACE” A book review by JC Sullivan
In 1971 this writer saw David Hackworth on television while he was in the field in Vietnam. He was saying what no one else...
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The Library Book a review by JC Sullivan
When I asked the Nordonia Hills Librarian if they had a copy of The Library Book she asked, “What’s the name of the book?”
It...
Commentary
Through Sullivan’s Eye: My First American Culture Shock
By JC Sullivan
We transferred from a mostly Irish school neighborhood to a Hungarian school neighborhood...a culture shock to this 7th grader.
One of my classmates...
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Nordonia Hills American Legion Post 801 and VFW Post 6768 honored U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Peter Simon
By JC Sullivan
Nordonia Hills American Legion Post 801 and VFW Post 6768 honored U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Peter Simon. SFC Simon was a...
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Father Peter Whelan, Confederate Chaplain and the Savannah Irish
By J.C. Sullivan
To describe the life and times of one immigrant to the American South could be also be aptly titled "Holy Men in...
