Huh.
It's a small world, sometimes.
I was born in Ohio. When I was born, we lived in the "Hezekiah Dunham House" at 729 Broadway in Bedford, OH. The house has since been designated a historic landmark on the national register. It was a pre-victorian Georgian mansion house built by Hezekiah Dunham in 1832, one of the early settlers in the area. We rented an apartment upstairs, on the north end of the house.
While I was researching the house, I discovered that my next door neighbor, across the back fence, was Tom Shipley... and until now, I never realized that's who lived there. The guy that owned the Dunham house was named Richard Sedlon, and he was an artist. He had transformed the back yard into an English Garden, with a walking path through it and all sorts of nymph and elf and gnome sculptures hidden along the path and in the trees, it was magical, to a kid.
Tom Shipley also wrote about that garden in his blog, and that's how I found out this evening that he was that guy on the other side of the back fence.
Small world, huh?
Tom Shipley, "One Toke Tom", as half of Brewer and Shipley, 1971 -
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It's a small world, sometimes.
I was born in Ohio. When I was born, we lived in the "Hezekiah Dunham House" at 729 Broadway in Bedford, OH. The house has since been designated a historic landmark on the national register. It was a pre-victorian Georgian mansion house built by Hezekiah Dunham in 1832, one of the early settlers in the area. We rented an apartment upstairs, on the north end of the house.
While I was researching the house, I discovered that my next door neighbor, across the back fence, was Tom Shipley... and until now, I never realized that's who lived there. The guy that owned the Dunham house was named Richard Sedlon, and he was an artist. He had transformed the back yard into an English Garden, with a walking path through it and all sorts of nymph and elf and gnome sculptures hidden along the path and in the trees, it was magical, to a kid.
Tom Shipley also wrote about that garden in his blog, and that's how I found out this evening that he was that guy on the other side of the back fence.
Small world, huh?
Tom Shipley, "One Toke Tom", as half of Brewer and Shipley, 1971 -
.