#painesville ohio

[middleland]

Cedar Hills retreat in Painesville, Ohio by clarinetgirl

[thebotanicalarcade]

When Jesse Storrs of New York began looking for land to start a new nursery, he was happy to find the fertile soil and excellent growing conditions of Painesville, Ohio. Before Storrs settled there, the area was primarily known for dairy farming. Nonetheless, Storrs began his nursery in the mid-1850s. He soon took on local fruit cultivator J.J. Harrison as his partner. By 1927, they had built "the largest departmental nursery in the world with over fifteen acres." Many of the men who served apprenticeships with Storrs and Harrison went on to start their own nursery businesses, leading to Lake County's nickname as the "nursery belt." This catalog of seeds and plants includes geraniums named for Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, and President James Garfield. It measures 6" wide by 9" high and is 109 pages long.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Grand River from Live Saving Station in Painesville, Ohio, USA

American vintage postcard

[theoldtimemoan]

When I was a kid growing up in northeast Ohio, I used to go along with my grandma to her weekly chemotherapy appointments at the old Lake East Hospital in Painesville. As I sat waiting with my mom, I’d pore over the pamphlets of historic photos that were scattered throughout the hospital. I was too young to really grasp what was going on, but I knew that it was painful and I needed a distraction, and so I was happy to let my mind wander to imagining what life had been like in my own town all those years ago.

My grandma passed when I was in the sixth grade, and the loss left a void in my life that couldn’t be filled. My grandfather, her ex-husband, was a big presence at times, but his relationship with my mom was marked by long periods of estrangement. My parents had split up while my mom was pregnant with me, and so I never knew my dad or any of my family on his side. My stepfather had lost his dad as a child and had had a bitter parting of ways from his mother after that. When my grandma died a portion of her collection of family photos was passed on to me. It turns out that that’s a lot of responsibility to put onto an eleven year old. My home life was scarred by domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, and a chronic instability. We moved around a lot, sometimes unexpectedly. Somewhere along the way almost all of those photos were lost. I was haunted by the sorrow and guilt of losing these invaluable connections to my own spotty history.

As time went on, I started bringing home photos of other people’s families, photos from antique shops and flea markets cheekily marked “Instant Relatives!” I didn’t know what I was seeking from them, but I knew that I needed them. I knew that they needed to be seen and that they deserved to be cherished, and if nobody else was doing it, well then it was up to me. 

In the summer I was forty, I was in my bedroom in my adopted home of Chicago looking through ancestry.com for information on a name I’d found scrawled on the back of a photo I’d picked up. I’d researched my own missing family before and I’d come up with very little, but on this day I stumbled upon my paternal grandmother’s remarried name, Synenberg, and with a quick internet search I found her contact information. That night I wrote her a note asking if she’d be interested in meeting, and she called me on the phone later that week. The next month I visited her for the first time at her home in Madison, Ohio, and I returned the next month to help celebrate her eighty fourth birthday. In the last years of her life we were very close, and when she passed away earlier this summer (June 22 to be precise), I stood next to her husband as her casket was closed for the last time. 

I miss my grandma a lot.  It is still very painful.  Sharing this is therapy for me.

The photos that make up The Old-Time Moan come from shops I frequent in and around Chicago, as well as places I visit in the tiny towns I grew up in back in Ohio. I can’t bring home every photo I find, but I know when I find one that I need. It’s more than “Instant Relatives!”, it’s more than kitsch. I think about the preparation that went into taking them, the anticipation of waiting for them to be developed, the pride of seeing them displayed. Somehow, somewhere, something went terribly wrong and they just disappeared. When I bring them home it’s my way of saying, now you’re with me. You’re far from your home but you’re not lost anymore. 

I don’t want to be forgotten either. 

That’s it. That’s the why.

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Photo 1: my maternal grandmother, Jeanne Boxerbaum, 1982ish Photo 2: my paternal grandmother, Joan Synenberg, Christmas 2019

[wataplease]

Spring in Painesville, Ohio 01 June 2022

[travelella]

Chair Factory Falls - Greenway Corridor, Painesville, Ohio, USA

DJ Johnson

[shezanenigma]

CFFC 126: Alonzo Turner vs. CJ LaFragola

By, ShezAnEnigma

In the highly-anticipated bout between two rising stars of the MMA world, Alonzo Turner and CJ LaFragola stepped into the cage to display their impeccable skills, honed by their impressive college wrestling backgrounds. Both fighters brought significant records to the table. Turner with a pro MMA record of 2-0 and an amateur tally of 8-1, showed his varied ways to clinch a win. LaFragola, with a 5-0 amateur record and a 1-0 pro record, showcased his impressive ability to dominate his opponents, as reflected by his 5 unanimous decision victories.

Round One: The bell rang, and Turner wasted no time, charging out with a barrage of punches that quickly knocked LaFragola down. For a moment, it seemed like Turner might finish the fight early, but LaFragola’s resilience shone through. Using his national qualifier wrestling background, LaFragola managed to reverse the position, pinning Turner beneath him. What followed was a grueling, four-minute power struggle, with both fighters jostling for dominance, sneaking in jabs and strikes wherever they found an opening. The audience was on the edge of their seats, witnessing the raw determination of both fighters. As the round neared its conclusion, Turner, living up to his nickname 'The Relentless,' landed the final strike just as the bell rang.

Round Two: As the fighters circled each other, Turner appeared slightly off-balance, possibly still feeling the effects of the intense ground battle in the first round. Sensing an opportunity, LaFragola made his move. He surged forward, taking Turner down. However, Turner's NCAA All American background was evident as he prevented LaFragola from fully controlling him on the mat. Pinned against the ring side, Turner showed his versatility. Instead of panicking, he worked his arms, jostling with LaFragola. Landing jabs and punches to LaFragola’s back, he managed to divert his opponent’s attention away from his neck. Seizing the moment, Turner swiftly secured his arms around LaFragola's neck, locking in a guillotine choke.  LaFragola battled valiantly, refusing to give up, but the pressure was too much. At 1 minute and 49 seconds into the round, LaFragola tapped out.

It was a thrilling display of skill, endurance, and strategy from both fighters, underscoring the reason why they are two promising talents in the MMA world. This match exemplified the essence of MMA: unpredictability, resilience, and sheer will to win.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is "Chant du Cygne," a unique home built in 1970 and currently someone's primary residence in Painesville, Ohio. It has 5bds & 3ba, (which they don't show, and that makes me wonder why), and for sale for $400K.

As you can see, it looks like a cave house, and probably needs to be repainted, but it's a pretty big home with 5bds and 3ba. What they show is the only the main living area.

Prospective buyers are invited to make an appointment to see it. The counters look like they have a rusty patina. The kitchen is large, but the appliances are all lined up behind the counter.

There aren't many cabinets and I'm wondering if the wine rack is actually propping up that floating sideboard.

A small sunken built-in seating area around the fireplace looks like it's just used to hold firewood, at the moment.

This is the living room and where the tour ends. There's an interesting built-in shelf unit. On Zillow's site there's a link to a virtual tour, but it won't allow me to click on it. It would probably cost a fortune to have this repainted.

Here's a cool feature.

The house basically looks like a rock formation, doesn't it?

Can imagine pulling up to this to go home? Awesome. 1.02 acres of land.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7245-Cascade-Rd-Painesville-OH-44077/34462342_zpid/?

[gacougnol]

Sam Abell

My father at the train station

Painesville. Ohio. 1959.

[porcelainapparition]

Painesville, Ohio

built in 1880

[middleland]

Hidden Lake, Ohio (2) by Bob Trinnes

[alliluyevas]

This cemetery post focuses on Emily Partridge Young and her children. I'll talk more about Emily and her life in a bit, but I wanted to start off with some discussion of polygamous families in grave records. Both the two family plots I've discussed so far (the Whitney and Wells families) are basically centered around the family patriarch and his wives and include graves for children from multiple marriages. Horace Whitney, like the majority of Mormon polygamists, only had two wives at the same time. Daniel Wells had six, which actually puts him in a very small minority of most-married polygamists, but Brigham Young was basically in a category by himself (well, really he was in a category with himself and Heber Kimball, but I'm focusing on his family here). With children by sixteen women, including Emily, and more wives whom he did not have children with, the Young family matrix is even more complicated--both in life and in death.

I know from Emily's diary entries that Brigham's widows were offered the choice to be buried with him in a small family cemetery near the Lion and Beehive Houses or to be buried elsewhere (Emily then remarked, half-sarcastically, that she hoped they would not be in a hurry to bury her). She was conflicted over this choice, as she was about her marriage in general, but ultimately chose to be buried here in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, next to her son and his family. Most of Brigham's widows made the same choice, with only six choosing a plot next to their husband. There are several quadrants of the SLC cemetery that are primarily Youngs, though, with several sister-wives and half-siblings buried near Emily and Don Carlos.

Anyway, I brought this up partially because I think it's interesting and partially because it speaks to a sort of conflict between different notions of family in Emily's life: her immediate nuclear family, the children to whom she was a devoted and loving mother, and the larger polygamist family in whose orbit she spent much of her life, yet often felt isolated from. (In addition, let's consider her other biological family: all three of her surviving sisters shared a husband, and they did not live in Salt Lake City, and she struggled with being separated from her siblings while they all lived together).

Emily was the third daughter of Edward and Lydia Partridge. Her parents became early Mormon converts when she was six, and her father was the first in the church to hold the title of bishop. Emily wrote poignantly about her childhood home in Painesville, Ohio, where her father worked as a comfortably middle-class hatter. Despite, or perhaps because of, the sacrifices she'd made for her faith throughout her life, she felt that she had never truly been at home anywhere since she'd left Painesville as a young child.

Shortly after the Mormons had arrived in Nauvoo, when malaria was sweeping through the population, Emily's father and her older sister Harriet died within days of each other. Joseph and Emma Smith took in 16-year-old Emily and her oldest sister Eliza to relieve the burdens of their widowed mother. Emily remembered her first two years living with the Smiths fondly. She seems to have seen them as surrogate parents, felt they were fond of her, and adored their younger children. Things changed when Joseph asked her to secretly marry him. Emily was resistant at first but eventually gave in after a second proposal on her nineteenth birthday. A few months later, she married him again along with her sister Eliza, this time with the begrudging agreement of his first wife. The Partridge sisters were told not to tell Emma they'd already married him, so as not to upset her, but the relationship between Emma and the younger women was ruined anyway. After several more months of conflict, Joseph agreed to have Emily and Eliza move out. Not long later, Joseph was killed: Emily later wrote about how difficult it was to attend the funeral as a secret wife. Almost immediately, she remarried Brigham Young as a "proxy wife" for time (meaning that she and her future children would "belong" to Joseph Smith for eternity), and soon was expecting her first child. Three marriages to two men, a funeral, and a pregnancy in less than two years.

Emily with her two oldest children, Edward (who tragically died not long after this picture was taken) and Emily.

I would describe Emily's second marriage as deeply unfulfilling, and she did too, at least in the private pages of her diary. Being part of such a large polygamist family was stressful in general, but it was particularly so for Emily, who felt unloved and forgotten by her husband, to the point of unsuccessfully asking him for a divorce at one point. While she initially lived in the Lion House with several other wives, she was eventually sent to live with her children on an isolated dairy farm her husband owned, and later to a run-down house in Salt Lake City. As a less favored wife, her financial situation was also precarious, and she felt that her husband neglected and resented their children because of his issues with her.

While she had a lot of conflict with her husband, and often felt lost among the other wives socially or jealous of their comparatively favored position, many of the other women and children in the Young family remembered her as a kind and loving presence. Though there's definitely some disconnect between what she expressed privately and to others, her personal writings do show her to have been a sweet and compassionate woman--though one who also had a lot of pain and anger she doesn't seem to have felt comfortable expressing out loud. I think the way she wrote about Emma Smith is particularly striking--while she clearly still was upset about how she'd been treated as a teenager, especially being thrown out of their home, she also expressed a lot of sympathy for what Emma was dealing with and I think the way she thought about this situation shows a lot of both intellectual and emotional nuance. In general, she seems like a very kind, thoughtful person, and I feel very sad that she did not receive the kind of love back that she seems to have desperately wanted.

I also wanted to talk a little bit about her children. The grey-scale photo is Emily again, this time a little older, and the other pictures are her five children who survived to adulthood, in birth order: Emily, Caroline, Don Carlos, Miriam, and Josephine. There’s definitely a family resemblance, I think. I was able to find the graves of all but Miriam (I found several of Miriam's children where Miriam and her husband are supposed to be buried, but I wasn't able to find the parents. Again, this is an area of the cemetery that is not in the best repair and all the graves are in-ground plaques, so they may have grown over).

Emily Jr. and Caroline were both, like their mother, plural wives married to significantly older men--Emily to Hiram Clawson, Caroline to apostle George Q. Cannon. I included a picture of Hiram's gravestone, which is this huge and in my opinion quite ugly literal boulder that dwarfs the small plaques of his wives, and of the Cannon family monument as well as Caroline's individual gravestone. Don Carlos, an architect, also had two wives, Alice Dowden and Marion Hardy, though both were less than a decade younger than him. Younger sisters Miriam and Josephine were both in monogamous marriages. Miriam was married to Leonard Hardy, who was the brother of Carlos's wife Marion (Miriam and Leonard married first), and Josephine, somewhat disturbingly, was married to Albert Young, who was her half-brother Brigham Jr.'s son. So her husband was technically her nephew, but due to the half-sibling thing, the fact that she and Brigham Jr. did not really grow up together, and the wonky generations meaning that Albert was actually a few years older than her, I think genetically and socially it was probably more like a cousin marriage. Still, it's definitely a bit uncomfortable to put that together.

Moving back to talk about Emily again before I close: I feel like a broken record here a bit, but I just wanted to pay tribute to someone who seems like she was a decent, kind-hearted woman who survived a lot of very difficult trials, including raising her children mostly on her own. While she didn't have the public presence or published writing that some of the other women whose graves I visited did, her private writing is articulate and poetic, especially when dealing with the injustice and emotional conflict she faced. I hope that she feels the peace and comfort that so often eluded her in life.

[heartsburstintofire13ghosts]

Samara Bishop/ The Fallen Beauty

Basic Info:

Full Name:

Samara Grace Bishop

Birthdate:

Saturday, October 24th, 1997

Place of Birth:

Mahoney’s Junkyard, Painesville, Ohio

Death Date:

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Place of Death:

Royce Clayton Memorial High School, Madison, Ohio

Age:

17

Heritage:

Russian, French, German

Family

Father:

Horace Mahoney/ The Juggernaut

Mother:

Evelina Ivanova/ Ellie Bishop

Sister:

Dana Newman/ The Angry Princess

Aunt:

Katarina Ivanova/ Krista Matthews

Best Friends

Aria Rafkin:

Sara Parr:

Enemies:

Johnny Sullivan:

Markus Sullivan:

Killer; School Shooter

Personality:

Samara is a free-spirited, rebellious, and open-minded young woman. Given that her mother’s job had them relocate all around the world she was also unafraid to try new things and dared to be different from most others of her age group. She has a creative mind as well as a photographic memory which makes it easy for her to remember things she has read, watched, or listened to with perfect detail. Sam is quick-witted and resourceful, knowing how to pick locks, pockets and was able to rebuild Royce Clayton’s 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air Convertible from pictures alone.

Samara had a close bond with her father, Horace, and inherited inhuman strength from him (though Horace himself stated she could easily overpower him in terms of raw force if the mood ever struck her), something she struggled to control for most of her life. Witnessing his death traumatized her deeply and despite knowing that the knowledge of his identity would lead to her being ostracized by everyone around her, she refused to insult her father’s memory by hiding the truth. After their abrupt move back to her mother’s home town, though, she is surprised to find out that people not only know who her father is, but don’t seem to care, coming for days after to offer their condolences and help out any way they could. 

Despite her kind and amenable nature, Samara can be aggressive and impulsive. She can also be tempestuous and sarcastic as well as habitually rude to people she does not like. Due to her stoic facial expression and ability to overpower a linebacker, most of her classmates try not to antagonize her for fear of reprisals. 

Samara is not close to a lot of people, preferring to keep them at arms length. However, when she was six, that changed. During recess in her kindergarten class, a dark haired boy stomped on a sand castle that two girls were building before holding them down and pulling their hair. Little Sam seized a block before hurling it like a star pitcher at the back of the boys head, causing him to let go and run off to the teacher, crying. That little boy was Markus Sullivan and those girls were Aria Rafkin and Sara Parr. The girls were inseparable from that day forward. Markus also formed a strong hatred for Sam, culminating in him murdering her (as well as 26 of their fellow students and 6 faculty members) 11 years later. 

Samara possesses an otherworldly beauty much like her mother, sister, and aunt but she does not seem to care all that much, shrugging and saying, “I know” emotionlessly with a blank expression when someone comments on it. The only part of her appearance she has an obvious fondness for is her deep red hair.  A trait she shared with her sister, Dana. 

Samara is a nerd at heart, loving to read poetry, books, and watch films. She likes new age films but older films, particularly one’s from the 50’s have a special place in her heart. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Edgar Allan Poe are great loves of hers, able to recite full monologues from the movies and paragraph after paragraph of the books from her memory alone. She is obsessed with history, both World and US and due to extensive traveling with her mother, has expansive knowledge of different cultures and traditions and speaks several different languages, proving to be an effective reader of Latin.

She had a knowledge of the Arcanum and its contents despite most people being unaware of its existence outside of churches and the studiers of the occult. 

One would believe that as the byproduct of a serial murderer and a contract killer that she would have a predilection for and nonchalant view of violence and they would be right. While not impulsively violent, she is not afraid to use it to maintain order and control or right wrongs.  The most surprising is she manages to do these things with very little thought or consideration for others. Going back to whatever she was doing beforehand.

Some examples of this are when she saw a man about to throw a bag of kittens off a bridge, she snagged the mewing bundle and gripped the back of his shirt, tossing him off instead. When Colin Miller's father beat him so badly, he wound up in the hospital, she threw the older man over a railing to his death. She threatened Johnny Sullivan multiple times, breaking his tibia during one of their confrontations. She hospitalized three girls after a fight when they tried to jump Aria in the bathroom, and she paralyzed one of her classmates from the waist down when it became apparent that he was just going to keep getting away with sexual assault until he was stopped.

Sam seems to have an unexplainable connection to Royce Clayton, dreaming about him (even before she knew who he was) from the time she was old enough to dream. She spent her life unaware that Royce is why her mother abruptly decided to return to her hometown. Royce’s energy surrounds the town of Madison and hangs particularly heavy around the Sullivan family. The dark force of his rage repels other ghosts from even entering the town, giving Sam unlimited safety from the entities who would seek to harm her for actions that she was not responsible for. 

Sam is a talented artist and carries around art supplies in her bag, which is with her even in death. 

I will go into her tattoos in a separate post. Also, I am almost positive that Dana was a redhead. Even with it wet, her hair has a red hue to it. 

Also, for the record, the perfume that Sam uses is DKNY Be Delicious

[strongislandsuperfan]

American Dream From A Meme

You'd have to live under a rock if you don't recognize this picture right here:

I always wanted to know what the story was behind the Popeye's Meme kid. Turns out, it was a case of mistaken identity from a extinct social media app.

A decade ago, a customer was approaching the line for filling up drinks at a Popeye's restaurant. Unaware of what was going on, Dieunerst Collin, of East Orange, New Jersey, simply minding his own business, was mistaken for Lil Terrio, a social media star from the now defunct Vine app. Dieunerst, who was 8 years old at that time, uncertain of what the person recording him was trying to do, gave him the side eye and became one of the most legendary memes of our generation. This simple, unassuming look generated millions of views on Vine, screenshots, gifs and memes, as the ultimate online expression for awkwardness, confusion and minding your own business.

What we also didn't know was that behind this awkward, unassuming look was a gifted, championship-winning athlete, who has now gone on to play NCAA Division II football at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, currently as an Offensive Lineman.

I'll be honest, I was aware of his success that he had playing football in high school and even winning a championship while playing, but didn't pay much attention to it afterwards, until buzz began generating on Twitter when people began to wonder what ever happened to the Popeyes Meme kid.

Once he was recognized at Lake Erie College, where he is currently studying sports management, this ignited sports fans, football fans and meme aficionados everywhere to track down this young man, whose overnight fame began with a simple eye glance, and rally around him to get the deal of a lifetime. An NIL sponsorship with Popeyes, the restaurant that "awkwardly" made him internet famous.

This is a feel good story for the ages, one that started of somewhat cringy and now has come full circle to give this young man his due. I wish nothing but the best for Dieunerst Collin and look forward to his future success.

[cecenjeff7106]

Stuck at 17 tonight. #goguardians #playoffpush #postseason2022 (at Painesville, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CilVaxTrFgb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ganley123]

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