SlowBro's Adventures.

23 miles- In 1825 Master builder and architect Jonathan Goldsmith from Connecticut commenced work on a lighthouse and keeper’s house for the town of Grandon, later renamed Fairport Harbor, located at the mouth of...

17 miles- About 1890 Feargus Squire, the vice-president and general manager of Standard Oil, purchased 525 acres of forested land in the Willoughby Hills along the Chigrin River to build an estate. To start,...

17 miles- “Chagrin n. -distress or embarrassment at having failed. v. -feel distressed or humiliated,” is the dictionary definition. So how does a nice clean river in northeastern Ohio get saddled with a name...

17 miles- 1868, 1883. 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, 1941, 1948, 1952, and 1969 were the years that we are sure the Cuyahoga River caught fire. There are probably others, but they weren’t recorded. I...

Pleasant night at the Heritage Farm CG. Up at 6:15 to a pretty sunrise and then I walked the half mile to the Peninsula Coffee Shop for breakfast. (I know, tough life.) When I...

16 miles- Two geological events set the stage for my blog today. About 350 million years ago a great river flowed out of what is now eastern Canada. The silt it carried settled into...