What I'll Miss about Wooster, Take Two

Take 2

1. Holida Opera, as Karen says. How could I forget the years of raising the girls on OLO’s 99 and 44/100% pure romance each summer? It’s still special to go to a show even though we don’t usher for them any longer.
2. Script Woo—the Wooster High School version of dotting the Ohio State “i.”
3. Christmas Run park and its great play pavilion and gentle stream and covered bridge.
4. The Pine and Scovel neighborhood with its safe alleys and places for imaginative play, like Bush.
5. Reading Marc Kovac’s columns in the Wooster Daily Record. The tongue in cheek humor with which he seasons the political news out of Columbus is the same as he brought to various church dramas. His Preston, Alita and Emil would have been on the list of missed kids except that they have already moved from Wooster. (I know—there’s always the internet….but it won’t be the same.)
6. Teaching students—at Thanksgiving or at the caroling party or…—to play Set.
7. Being on the route between Cleveland Heights and Logan. We’re going to miss you, Mindy and Mark.
8. Being close enough to Pittsburgh for Chloe to come for Thanksgiving.
9. Living close to a college and so having ready lectures, concerts, plays, recitals, sporting events to attend (in our “spare” time).
10. All City band concerts—during which you can hear everyone from the beginning fifth graders through the top high school band and realize again how much students can improve. We haven’t gone in years, but during the days, that was one of our favorite concerts. The band directors at Wooster High still remember our children by name and with sincere curiosity about what they are doing today.
11. WKSU, one of the very finest public radio stations in the country.
12. Moorefield Pottery. My place of choice for buying wedding presents. Some dear friends at church gave us a gift certificate from there, and so I added a large fruit bowl to my small collection of Moorefield pottery.
13. Quailcrest, an excellent herb farm turned nursery and upscale home store, just north of Wooster. Their lunches during the winter holiday times are um, um, good. I have their cookbook so as to be able to try to duplicate their soups at least.
14. Mannafest, or its current iteration, crossCulture. The opportunity to minister to IVCF students at conferences and my interaction with the Northeast Ohio and other nearby teams of staff.
15. More will be coming as I think of them....