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Product details
- ISBN 9780873388542
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 161 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Longtime columnist for the ""Cleveland Plain Dealer"", George E. Condon turns his keen repertorial eye to Cleveland's West Side, an area rich in history but too often overlooked in scholarly texts. In easy, polished prose, Condon regales the reader with stories of settlement, migration, and development, all the while bringing to life such characters as ""Ice Wagon"" Kilbane, whose legendary punch laid many West Side Irishmen low, and ""Six O'Clock"" Dorsey, said to have been the skinniest kid in the Old Angle neighborhood, and ""Needles"" McCafferty, who took his dinkey trolley sightseeing one memorable night. This seasoned newspaperman has been soaking up stray facts and vanishing information for more than five decades. Condon's voracious appetite for facts and a nose for where to find them bring alive this Cleveland history, engaging the reader with his authentic stories, humorous anecdotes, and fond perspective. ""West of the Cuyahoga"" fills a gap in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and reveals the gleanings of a lifetime for a local journalist and raconteur.
George E. Condon was a reporter and columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 41 years. He was honored by the Press Club of Cleveland, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Professional Journalists, and was inducted in the Press Clubs's Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of Cleveland: The Best-Kept Secret, Stars in the Water, Gaels of Laughter and Tears, and Laughter from the Rafters
