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The Deeds Carillon and Carillon Park
by AnonymousCarillon Park owes its existence to the generosity of two public-spirited Dayton citizens, Colonel and Mrs. Edward A. Deeds. It is an expression of the interests of two people expanded for the pleasure and advancement of the entire community.The Park had its inception with the Carillon, the gift of Mrs. Deeds. Devoted to music from her girlhood, an..
The Pioneer Home
by AnonymousThe Pioneer Home, which serves as an Information Center for Carillon Park, is believed to have been built about 1815. It was originally located in Washington Township about five miles southwest of Centerville on Social Row Road, about halfway between Sheehan Road and Yankee Street. In the spring of 1953 it was torn down and moved to Carillon Park, ..
A Gentleman of Leisure
by P. G. WodehouseThe main smoking-room of the Strollers’ Club had been filling for the last half-hour, and was now nearly full. In many ways the Strollers’, though not the most magnificent, is the pleasantest club in New York. Its ideals are those of the Savage Club—comfort without pomp—and it is given over after eleven o’clock at night mainly to the Stage. Everybo..
Antonia
by George SandThe time was the month of April, 1785, and the place Paris, where the spring that year was a genuine spring. The garden was in holiday attire, the greensward was studded with marguerites, the birds were singing, and the lilacs grew so straight and so close to Julien's window, that their fragrant clusters actually entered his room and strewed the wh..
Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest
by Kenneth HoneaThe cultures of Early Man in the Southwest, though yet imperfectly known, seem most readily distinguishable by characteristic types of projectile points. The majority of finds, and they are rare, have been made on the surface; much less often at camp or kill sites.Camp sites were situated on ridges, in sand dunes, or on hills overlooking streams, l..
The Conchologist's First Book
by Edgar Allan PoeThe Conchologist's First BookA System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science...
Beyond the Ultra-Violet
by Frank M. RobinsonYou better take your money back, mister. Thanks a lot but—no thanks. I wasn't panhandling, my hat fell off and I was trying to find it on the sidewalk. Thanks again for finding it for me but I think I could have managed. And, no offense, but I can find my way all right without being led.You're surprised that I'm rather young, huh? Well, youth isn't..
Come Into My Brain!
by Robert SilverbergThe patrol-ships of the Terran outpost on Planetoid 113 had discovered the alien scout a week before. The Dimellian spy was lurking about the outermost reaches of the Terran safety zone when he was caught.It wasn't often that Earth captured a Dimellian alive and so the Outpost resolved to comb as much information from him as possible. The Earth-Dim..