A TANK AWAY FROM TOLEDO OR COLUMBUS OR CLEVELAND
May 10-12, 2010
We traveled to Wagner's 1844 Inn, a bed & breakfast in Sandusky, Ohio. There was no sign in the yard, and no one was there. While we stood there bewildered, a man approached and said he would let us in. He later said he was the son of the proprietor and didn't know where she was. After a wonderful dinner at Zinc Brasserie http://www.zincbrasserie.net/, we returned to the inn and met the owner who had forgotten we were coming. When we mentioned no sign in the yard and just a miniscule plaque attached near the front door, she said she "didn't want to make a production" of the sign, but might get another one at some time. The next day we visited Lehman's hardware store in Kidron, Ohio http://www.lehmans.com/ where we explored a 32,000 square-foot complex containing three pre-Civil War era buildings. We had sausage sandwiches at their Cast Iron Cafe and then continued wandering the store. Lehman's was founded in 1955 to serve the local Amish. Museum-quality antiques line the walls, and they have an amazing array of stoves. Hollywood set designers have looked for historically accurate period pieces there. We drove to Vermilion, Ohio and before we ate dinner at Touché wine/martini bar/restaurant, we went to the lowest level of our motel twice because of tornado warnings.

Ten new works have been installed at The University of Toledo's 5th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit. http://www.msisculpture.com/5thAnnualUniversityofToledo.htm The artwork will remain in their current locations for the next year. A piece from last year's exhibit, "Balancing Act" by Calvin Babich was purchased by an anonymous donor of the College of Arts and Sciences and moved to the east side of University Hall.

University of Toledo graduate Judith Lanzinger, formerly an attorney with Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, was elected the 150th Ohio Supreme Court justice in 2004. At that time, she became the only person voted to all four levels of the state judiciary: Supreme Court, Sixth District Court of Appeals, Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, and the Toledo Municipal Court.

Eponyms
The Pennsylvania Dutch are the descendants of Germanic peoples who emigrated to the U.S. (primarily to Pennsylvania), from Germany, Switzerland and The Low Countries prior to 1800. The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples, which explains the corruption of the German word Deutsch to Dutch; therefore, the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch are really Pennsylvania Germans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch
The Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann. Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish
The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons (1496–1561), who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite

Green buildings in the desert
Qatar http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/greenbuildings/weillmedicalcollege.cfm
Iraq http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/faculty_projects/terri/pdf/huang.PDF

The mission of Veggie U is to promote the well-being of children through a healthy lifestyle. This is accomplished through:
•Hands-on educational curricula targeting classrooms across the nation
•Development of seminars and outreach programs for food enthusiasts, food service groups and culinary professionals
The educational projects:
•Introduce the concept of sustainable agriculture
•Emphasize the need to grow vegetables safely
•Provide the connection between agriculture, good nutrition and the culinary arts. http://www.veggieu.org/

During a recent growing-green lesson at Perrysburg's Woodland Elementary School, students were being careful not to squish the squash. Planting and tending to vegetables is just one of the many hands-on activities offered during Veggie U, a five-week science program designed to encourage students, as well as their families, to go green from earth to table. http://toledoblade.com/article/20100512/NEIGHBORS03/5110378