Table of contents for Mad Marshall country : candid snapshots of quietly spectacular people and their no-nonsense pioneer towns which still weld the nation's backbone / by Robert Hull.

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Acknowledgments                                             8
An introduction: Heroes are everyone, part of the time...  12
1. Are We Different Anymore? (the people of Ripley, Ohio)    13
2. What Are You Worth In the Middle of the River? (the Delta Queen)  21
3. A Touch of Sassafras! (Grandma Emma Gatewood of Gallipolis)  23
4. The "Old Rusty & Weedy!" (Ohio's historic O.R. & W. Railroad)  27
5. 'Think You Can-And Start!" (story of Dover, Ohio's great train
carver, Ernest Warther)                                 32
6. City of Perpetual Mist (a sketch of East Liverpool and two of its
former citizens, Lloyd Gille and Harold Barth)          39
7. The Last Boomer Lineman (Ireland's Robert Gourley, senior resi-
dent of the Conrad Hotel, Massillon, Ohio)              47
8. Tramp Critters Anonymous (confessions of a wasted reporter)  51
9. Master of Big House (nine Ohioans recall assorted aspects of the
robust farmer-novelist, Louis Bromfield)                54
10. "I'm Rock Creek 'Til I Die!" (story of the bombastic phone com-
pany president from Rock Creek, Ohio)                   68
11. Oh, Sweet Green Island! (the message of Dr. Kenneth Hunt,
"minuteman" of Ohio's Glen Helen)                       71
12. The Love Business (a Dayton man... his wife... and other people's
hurting children)                                       73
13. History From a Shack Window (a London, Ohio man's ancestral
grandmother escaped from Shawnee tomahawks)             77
14. Workin' on the Wright Brothers' Aeroplane (a Meigs County man
repaired the shattered wing of the first airplane)      80



15. "Tecumseh Walked Through My Garage!" (Edson Myers of Mt.
Sterling lives smack on top of Tecumseh's hunting ground)  85
16. 'Twelve Words That Changed Our Lives..." (the miracle of
restored Roscoe Village)                               90
17. Show Biz On Whitewoman Street (a barber-artist, a duck carver,
and a strange delightful assortment of fellows & ladies)  100
18. The Man Called Jacobs... (the ongoing adventures of the little
man from Prosser Hollow who re-invented promotion & show
business)                                             121
19. The McKenna Adventure (trials and tribulations of an Irish family
and their Dream Train)                                152
20. Our Gentle Minstrels... (incredibly lovely early ballads are like
food to a hungry ear; balladeers are favorites here)  167
21. Our Duck Man Sings In the Theater                       183
22. Heading Out On the Old Back Road... (a Linton Township native
heads an afternoon safari to Bacon Run Bridge)        192
23. Dorthea Marshall Is Quite A Lady! (there's a lot of love in that
homegrown museum in Newcomerstown; everyone in town is
in on it)                                             198
24. "I Wouldn't Trade This Little Town, Because..." (some ideas of
why Ohio small towns are still unique and will survive)  205
25. The Tribune Had Some Amazing Aunts and Uncles           256
26. Superstitions... Legends... and Tales of Terror!        260
27. The Townspeople Remember Marshall                       264
28. Now... Come To The Great Ohio State Fair!               281