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BEFORE APRIL 8 3/8/1868 Clyde REGISTER TO VOTE CHECK ADDRESS Incorporated Elections 419 334-6180.

Sherwood Anderson Society honors local writer.

MARCH 1884 Andersons step off train at depot. Sherwood is 7.

1893 Older brother Karl moved to Chicago.

MARCH 1895 Sherwood, 18, enlists for five years in Ohio National Guard. May 1895 mother Emma dies of tuberculosis.

Her death is believed eventually to cause him to leave C;yde . 1896 Sherwood, 20 moves to Chicago and

lives with brother Karl and other local friends in a house owned by former Clyde Mayor Paden.

1898 Sherwood is 22 and returns with friends Sherwood Anderson Park 1976 to Clyde to enlist in the War in Cuba. BIRTH CENTENNIAL …members of the Anderson family MARCH 8, 1941 Sherwood dies on along with officials from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation in Michigan joined in dedicating a park on a trip from New York to Panama. the site of the Depot on Railroad Street where the Cause of death is listed as peritonitis caused famous writer first stepped off the train in Clyde. by a toothpick lodged in his small intestine,

First Financial Bank falsely claims site ownership. probably swallowed in a cocktail.

Clyde's Allbery earned Anderson Foundation Award

MARCH 3 '57 honor his extensive Debra Allbery is an career .Qualifications American Poet who spent include publishing one her youth on book of fiction or a

Buckeye Street in Clyde, collection of short stories walking the same streets in major literary and/or Sherwood Anderson commercial publications.

walked, played and worked Allbery always was through his boyhood. interested in Anderson's In 1994 Allberry was works and worked for

awarded the prestigious Mrs. Buck in the Clyde Sherwood Anderson Library. Foundation Fiction Award . She is a graduate of the Established in 1988 by College of Wooster, Debra Allbery PhD.Director Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers Anderson's grandsons University of Iowa and at Warren Wilson College. David and Michael Speer to. University of Virgina.

EDITORS: John and Jan Brewer 419 765-0738 COMPUTER SERVICES by Computer Garage 122 S. Main 1884 Andersons move to Clyde 188 MARCH 1884 (Clyde, OH) Civil War veteran Irwin Anderson, once a successful harness maker who owned his own shop

in Camden, Ohio, brought his family by train to a 'frontier' town named Clyde. Irwin did odd jobs and his wife Emma 'took in' laundry to help support the seven children. Sherwood celebrated his 8th birthday in September and soon was finding odd jobs to

help with income. He became known around town as Jobby. At 14 he left high school and worked as errand boy, DAVID SPEER, stable boy - and printer's devil at The Winesburg Eagle. Sherwood Truly his 'boyhood home' . Anderson EMMA ANDERSON died He dated Bertha Baynes who possible was his inspiration grandson with in 1895 and is buried on for Helen White in his most well-known landmark book Emma Anderson Loop in Deb Allbery of "Winesburg, Ohio". He moved to Chicago, returned to enlist McPherson Cemetery in the War with Cuba. He left permanently in 1899. Clyde

Pam & AJs Route 20 Diner sign is up in the former Bogey's/Gary's art deco building.

General McPherson returns to the Museum 7 p.m. Tuesday March 13. 2018 The BEES-NESS about Bees and Honey at Main Street Café Friday March 9 . Beekeepers

talk about the honey beezness. 5:30 enter. 6:00 program. $5. Call 419 765-9146

MUSEUM OPEN 1-Call5 Thursday . 10-1 Saturday. FISH FRY 4:30-7 Friday at St. Mary's Co. Commission meet Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 a.m. at former Jail

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