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Bay marks 175th birthday - bygone days cherished
THE PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 3-A
METRO LIFE
The heart hath its own memory / like the mind, / and in it are enshrined / The precious keepsakes, into / which is wrought / The treasured, living thought.
- Ida M. Cahoon in "Looking Backward" a collection of poetry
By CAROLYN DAVIS
STAFF WRITER
...weekend festivities which began yesterday with a tour of 11 historic buildings in the city. The celebration honors the day in 1810...
Today, Cahoon Memorial Park on the Cahoon and Lake Rds. will be filled with crafts people, including glassblowers, potters, weavers and cornhusk doll makers. Music and food will be available. Music and food will be available.
On the first stop of yesterdays's tour, people walked through Rose Hill Museum, the home of the Cahoons, and studied a homemade quilt of 30 patches depicting different Bay Village scenes.
Mary E. Bevington said Bay Village rmeinds her of her New England roots...
Scott J. Howart, 9, said he learned Bay Village history in his third-grade class last year...
The anniversary officially got under way last week when John Zipp Jr., 84, blew out the candles on a cake as part of the kick-off party.
"I get to blow the candles out because I guess I'm the bigest blowhard," Zipp said. Organizers of the ceebration, however said he was selected because Zipp Manufacturing Co. is the oldest such firm in the city.
Zipp recalled a day in the early 1900's when he went to Dover Rd. with his father to choose a spot for thier plant, whcih would manufacture products use in making ice cream.
He recalled spending his summers at a cottage along the lake, the roads were dirt adn sources of entertainment were scarce...visited the Cahoon sisters.
Zipp said his father decided to build their factory in Bay Village becasue of the vast fields of grapes and other fruit, all used in the addtives the company made for ice cream.
Zipp said he spent many hours visiting his fathers's business when he was 12 or 13.
There wasn't anything to do. Catch snakes." he said, chuckling after a moment's thoughts.
Other memories of Bay Village were passed down to Ellen Screwvala president of Bay Village's Community Council and chairwoman of this weekend's festivities...parents moved to Bay Village 50 years ago and decide to stay because of the area's hospitality. Even the neighborhood telephone opertor became a friend, she said.
"My mother used to call the operator at night when my father went out of town because she was scared and wanted someone to talk to." Screwvala said.
Linda K. Eggers said the Bay Villge Nursery School is sposoring the sale of bayberry - a plant named the official shrub of Bay Village last week by Mayor James H. Cowles.
Photograph of two women looking at the quilt.
Jeanne Mavis, left, discusses Bay Village scenes depicted in a quilt with Heen H. Cake who stitched one of the scenes.Relationships
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