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The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The very first magazine subscription I ever had was to Boy's Life. Although the exact details have grown murky with the years, I'm guessing I started receiving it...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Some variation of the quote, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life," has been attributed to everyone from Mark Twain to Marc Anthony. While...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. You've probably seen the quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder" on a T-shirt or a sign, most likely in a bar. The phrase is designed, of course, to...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Every year, right after Halloween, my wife Janet removes a ceramic turkey the size of a softball from the china cabinet and places it on our dining room table....

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. During the first week of July 2019, I traveled around my native Ohio doing signings and readings of my new book, “Ocean of Storms.” I had a blast reconnecting...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Like this year, Halloween of 1987 fell on a Saturday, and that's why it was doubly disappointing to us that no trick-or-treaters knocked on our door.  My...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Last year, for the first time since the mid-1980s, vinyl record sales surpassed that of CDs. While that's an interesting factoid, it doesn't reflect a resurgence...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There is no shortage of literary works that wax rhapsodic about the changing of seasons in the  garden, so anything I write has probably been written before,...

Amanda Prouty is launching a new weekly feature, Stories of Anson, in which she tells us about some of the interesting people who live here and “make this small town better and a wonderful place to live.” Her debut subject? A very logical choice: herself!  I’m...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The swing set of my youth was painted blaze orange; owing, I'm certain, to my father's penchant for buying his paint from the CLEARANCE bin at the discount store....

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Around this time last year, I decided to try "technology free" Sundays for a month. The idea  was that, for September, I would completely unplug from the...