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IN OHIO, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD A THRIVING FARMING COMMUNITY, AND TODAY THE.

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>>> IN OHIO, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD A THRIVING FARMING COMMUNITY, AND TODAY THE BUCKEYE STATE IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE NATION'S LEADERS IN AGRICULTURE.

CHARLENE, IF YOU WERE TO GUESS, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE TOP THREE THINGS THAT FARMERS IN OHIO PRODUCE NATIONALLY ARE?

EGGS.

>> WELL, AS OF THIS ORIGINAL BROADCAST, OHIO RANKS NUMBER ONE IN SWISS CHEESE.

>> WHAT?

>> DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING.

NUMBER TWO FOR EGGS.

GOT IT.

AND NUMBER THREE FOR TOMATOES AND PUMPKINS.

>> THAT MAKES SENSE.

WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT FARMING AND HOW TO PREPARE OR FOOD, BUT SOMETIMES WE FORGET THERE ARE WHOLE PROCESSES TO GET THOSE CROPS FROM THE FARM TO OUR TABLES, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALK ABOUT TODAY.

>> OUR FIRST STORY IS ABOUT A GRAIN ELEVATOR THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF CANAL WINCHESTER'S AGRICULTURAL HISTORY.

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN JEFF DARBEE HEADS OVER TO THE HISTORIC O.P.

CHANEY GRAIN ELEVATOR TO LEARN ABOUT ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE COMMUNITY AND ITS PLAN FOR RESTORATION.

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>> CANAL WINCHESTER WAS JUST WINCHESTER UNTIL THE CANAL CAME THROUGH, THE OHIO-ERIE CANAL.

IT'S BEEN KNOWN AS CANAL WINCHESTER SINCE, WHICH SUGGESTS SOMETHING OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF THIS HISTORY.

THE CANAL WINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS DONE A LOT TO HELP PRESERVE PART OF THAT STORY, TRANSPORTATION, BUT ALSO LOCAL INDUSTRY AS WELL AND LOCAL EDUCATION.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A VISIT TODAY, AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND SOME REALLY INTERESTING ARCHITECTURE AND INTERESTING INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION HISTORY.

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WELL, HELLO.

>> HI, JEFF.

>> HOW ARE YOU?

GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> WELCOME TO THE CANAL WINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

>> THANKS SO MUCH.

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

I UNDERSTAND WE'RE GOING TO SEE A VERY INTERESTING BUILDING TODAY.

>> WE ARE IN FACT.

IT WAS THE GRAIN ELEVATOR.

IT WAS BUILT BY JUDGE JOHN CHANEY AND HIS SON O.P.

CHANEY IN THE 1870s.

IN 1850, JUDGE JOHN CHANEY AND HIS ON O.P.

FOUNDED THE EMPIRE MILL.

THAT WAS ACTUALLY A MILE AWAY FROM HERE AT ABOUT THE 40 LOCK OF THE CANAL OUT BY GROVEPORT AND JENNER ROAD.

THAT BURNED, AND THEN IN THE LATE 1870s, O.P.

CHANEY BUILT THIS ELEVATOR.

>> THAT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE BY THEN THE RAILROAD HAD COME THROUGH TOWN AND PRETTY MUCH SUPPLANTED THE CANAL.

>> IT ABSOLUTELY DID, AND IT RAN RIGHT HERE.

YOU CAN SEE THE TRACK HERE.

>> I'D LOVE TO SEE THE INSIDE OF THE MILL SYSTEM THAT SOMETHING THAT'S POSSIBLE?

>> WELL, I'M NOT DRESSED FOR THAT, AT LEAST NOT TO GO TO THE TOP, BUT I'LL SEND YOU UP AND I'LL MEET YOU INSIDE.

>> THAT SOUNDS GREAT.

I'LL HEAD RIGHT AWAY.

THANKS.

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BIT OF A CLIMB.

I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT AN ELEVATOR, BUT I DON'T THINK IT HAS ONE.

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ONE MORE FLIGHT.

WELL, I'M ALMOST THERE.

WE'RE JUST GETTING TO WORK HERE IS A CHALLENGE.

HELLO, RALPH.

>> HI, JEFF.

WELCOME.

>> THANKS.

>> YOU'RE WELCOME.

>> IT IS A HEAD HOUSE.

THERE'S THE ROOF.

CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER.

>> WHAT HAPPENS UP HERE?

>> AS THE GRAIN WOULD COME UP FROM THE BASEMENT, THEY'D DUMP IT INTO A HOLDING AREA HERE.

A WORKER COULD TAKE THIS PIPE, MOVE FRIT BIN TO BIN.

THERE ARE ABOUT FOUR BINS BELOW US, AND MOVE THE GRAIN INTO EACH ONE OF BINS DEPENDING WHAT IT IS.

>> SO, THE PIPE IS FLEXIBLE.

I SEE THERE ARE HOLES ON THE FLOOR COVERED FOR SAFETY, BUT THAT'S WHERE IT WOULD GO DOWN INTO THE OTHER BINS.

>> EXACTLY.

ALL THIS GRAIN WAS BEING FILTERED FROM PLACE TO PLACE.

IT'S ALL DONE BY GRAVITY.

SO THERE WAS NO OTHER MECHANICAL MOVEMENT OTHER THAN MOVING IT FROM ONE BIN TO THE OTHER.

AND THEY WOULD HAUL ROUGHLY 3,000 POUNDS OF GRAIN UP HERE A DAY.

>> THAT'S A TON AND A HALF.

CHAINS, ALL RELATED TO MOVING THE BUCKETS UP?

THAT'S PRIMARILY WHAT THEY SERVED AS?

BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE GEARS AND BIG CHAINS AND THINGS.

>> IT WAS INITIALLY DONE BY STEAM, AND THEN LATER CHANGED TO ELECTRICITY.

>> FORTUNATE SO MUCH OF THIS IS INTACT, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF THE COMPANIES THAT SUPPLIED SOME OF THE MACHINERY.

WONDERFUL.

>> SIDNEY, OHIO, ONE OF THE MANUFACTURERS OF THE GEARS AND EQUIPMENT THAT'S UP HERE.

WELL, I'D BE HAPPY TO SEE THE NEXT LEVEL DOWN, SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE IF YOU WANT TO LEAD THE WAY.

>> SURE.

WHY DON'T WE WALK ON DOWN THIS WAY.

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>> SO, WE'RE AT THE NEXT LEVEL DOWN.

WHAT HAPPENS DOWN AT THIS LEVEL?

>> THE GRAINS CAME IN.

COULD BE CORN, COULD BE WHEAT, COULD BE RYE.

THEY'D DROP DOWN IN THIS AUGER THAT'S RIGHT HERE, AND FROM THE AUGER IT WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH ONE OF THE LEGS THAT WOULD TAKE IT DOWN TO A BIN BELOW US.

ALL THIS IS DONE BY GRAVITY SOME AS IT'S MOVING THROW IT WOULD HAPPEN TO DROP INTO THE BIN THAT'S OPEN.

ONCE IT WENT INTO THE BIN IT WOULD GO OUT TO A RAIL CAR OR A CANAL AT ONE TIME WHEN THEY HAD THE CANALS GOING THROUGH OR WAGONS THAT WOULD CARRY THE GRAIN WHERE THEY WANTED IT TO GO.

>> THIS IS THE INTERMEDIATE PROCESS BEFORE FINAL DELIVERY.

>> EXACTLY.

LIKE THE STORAGE PLACE.

>> JUST TO BE CLEAR, THIS MILL DIDN'T GRIND GRAIN INTO FLOUR OF ANY KIND.

THIS IS BRINGING IN GRAIN SELLING IT TO PEOPLE AT A MILL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

>> SORTING STORING IT BEFORE SOMEONE PURCHASES IT FOR MILLING, WHATEVER THEY WANT.

>> THIS WOULD SERVE A FAIRLY LARGE AREA, A FARMING AREA?

>> ONCE THE RAILROADS CAME THROUGH IT WOULD GO AS FAR AS NEW YORK, SO IT WOULD TAKE IT QUITE A DISTANCE OUT OF THE AREA.

SO THE ECONOMY FOR THE FARMERS EXPANDED QUITE A BIT.

NOT JUST IN OR AROUND THE AREA, BUT CENTRAL OHIO.

THAT WAS THE PROCESS.

I THINK BRUNA IS WAITING FOR YOU DOWNSTAIRS.

>> THANKS SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE IT.

>> GLAD TO HAVE YOU, JEFF.

>> BYE.

>> BYE NOW.

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>> WELL, HELLO AGAIN, BRUNA.

>> I'M GLAD YOU'RE BACK.

HOW WAS UPSTAIRS.

>> QUITE A TOUR.

WONDERFUL PLACE WITH THE STAIRS, OH MY.

>> I'M GLAD YOU'RE BACK AND YOU'RE LUCKY TO BE UP THERE, BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY IS ALLOWED TO GO UP THERE.

>> I CAN SEE WHY IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE HAZARDOUS.

WE'RE HERE AT GRADE LEVEL.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS ROOM?

>> THIS WAS PROBABLY THE BUSIEST ROOM IN THE GRAIN ELEVATOR.

THE FARMER WOULD BRING HIS WAGON OUT RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THIS SPACE.

HE WOULD LEAVE THE LOAD OF HIS GRAIN, AND IT WOULD BE WEIGHED, AND THEN IT WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED UPSTAIRS WHERE YOU WERE TO THE DIFFERENT BINS.

THEN EITHER GO BY RAIL OR BE INDIVIDUALLY BAGGED FOR SALE.

>> I COULD SEE THERE ARE OTHER SPACES IN THIS LEVEL.

>> THERE ARE MANY MORE SPACES.

THINGS LIKE THIS WAGON RIGHT NOW ARE JUST BEING STORED HERE.

THIS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN HERE ORIGINALLY.

>> IN A WORKING SPACE LIKE THIS.

AND I NOTICE THESE WONDERFUL BIG WOOD COLUMNS, AND SOME OF THEM ARE TRIMMED ON THE EDGE TO GIVE IT A LITTLE ELEGANT KIND OF LOOK.

THERE'S REAL CRAFTSMANSHIP HERE THE WAY THIS IS PUT TOGETHER.

IT'S NOT A FANCY HOUSE.

IT'S A MILL, AN ELEVATORING BUT IT'S REALLY BEAUTIFULLY DONE.

WAIT, THERE'S A HOLE IN THE FLOOR.

WHAT'S THIS?

>> THIS HOLE IN THE FLOOR ACTUALLY HOUSED A GIANT AUGER TYPE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.

THINK OF AN ENORMOUS CORKSCREW.

THAT RAN THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BUILDING AND WOULD PUSH THE GRAIN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BUILDING BACK INTO THE NEXT AREA FOR STORAGE.

>> IS THAT STILL THERE?

>> THAT BUILDING UNFORTUNATELY BURNED DOWN IN 1978.

AND ONE OF OUR TRUSTEES TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TODAY WAS ACTUALLY THE NEWLY APPOINTED FIRE CHIEF FROM MADISON TOWNSHIP.

BUT FORTUNATELY HIS TEAM DID A FANTASTIC JOB.

AND IT WAS A CINDER BLOCK WALL THAT PREVENTED THE FIRE FROM PASSING FROM THAT BUILDING.

>> I'M SO GLAD THE FIRE GOT STOPPED AND THIS BUILDING WAS SAVED.

IT'S IMPORTANT.

OHIO IS AN AGRICULTURAL STATE STILL.

KNOWING THE HISTORY IS IMPORTANT.

THERE'S A FUTURE HERE, TOO.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE PLANNED?

>> WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE HERE.

COME WITH ME, I'LL SHOW YOU.

>> OKAY.

>> THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

IT'S AN IMAGE OF WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO ACHIEVE HERE IN THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS.

ADDING A NEW ENTRANCE INTO THE FACILITY AND A CENTER HERE THAT MIGHT HOUSE BRIDES ON THE DAY OF A WEDDING.

IT WILL HAVE PUBLIC RESTROOMS THAT WILL BE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL OUTDOOR EVENTS, EVEN WHILE THE REST OF THE FACILITY IS CLOSED UP.

A PATIO ON THE BACKSIDE OF IT AS WELL UP AGAINST THE RAILROAD TRACKS.

THIS IS THE INTERIOR.

COMFORT CENTER WE JUST TALKED ABOUT.

PERHAPS IN A WEDDING THIS MIGHT BE A CHAPEL FOR THE CEREMONY.

THIS MIGHT BE WHERE THE RECEPTION IS HELD.

OR IT MIGHT BE GOOD FOR A MUSIC CONCERT AN OR A LECTURE, ANY KIND OF EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE AS WELL.

>> WELL, THAT'S A GREAT PLAN.

YOU'RE PRESERVING THE HISTORIC BUILDING BUT GIVING IT A NEW LIFE WITH THESE HISTORIC FACILITIES.

IT JUST MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.

>> WELSH IT'S A PASSION OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO FIRST OF ALL PRESERVE THE BUILDING, BUT GIVE IT BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO THEM, SO THEY CAN ENJOY IT.

>> THAT REALLY IS TRUE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A GREAT TOUR.

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I HOPE YOU COME BACK WHEN IT'S FINISHED.

>> LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

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>> I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT THAT GRAIN ELEVATOR LOOKS LIKE WHEN IT'S RESTORED.

I'M GUESSING IT'S GOING TO BE A BEAUTIFUL EVENT SPACE.

>> I BET YOU'RE RIGHT, CHARLENE.

AND AS A FOLLOW UP TO THAT HISTORY, IT'S RUMORED THAT ACTOR LON CHANEY, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE IN HORROR FILMS IN THE 1920s IS RELATED TO THE O.P.

CHANEY FAMILY.

>> YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

>> I KID ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS.

LON CHANEY'S FAMILY HISTORY IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

SO STAY TUNED, BECAUSE LATER WE CHECK IN WITH AARON O'DONOVAN OVER AT THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY TO SEE IF HE CAN MAKE THAT CONNECTION.

>> CANNOT WAIT TO FIND OUT ABOUT THAT ONE.

>>> GETTING BACK TO OUR OHIO FARM TO TABLE THEME, NEXT WE HEAD OVER TO A SPECIAL LITTLE FARM IN SOUTHERN LORAIN COUNTY, WHERE THE FAMILY WHO STARTED IT HAS A UNIQUE BACK STORY.

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>> CHRIS AND I MET WHEN I WAS A SENIOR IN COLLEGE.

WE'RE BLESSED WITH FOUR KIDS.

OUR PLAN WAS I WAS GOING TO TEACH AND HE WAS GOING TO WORK AT FORD, AND WE WERE GOING TO RAISE OUR KIDS OUT IN THE COUNTRY AND -- MAYBE AN ANIMAL HERE OR THERE FOR EACH PROJECT.

ZACK IS OUR OLDEST, AND THEN LUCAS CAME AROUND THREE YEARS LATER.

EARLY IN HIS LIFE WE NOTICED HE DIDN'T SLEEP WELL.

HE HAD SOME HEALTH ISSUES.

CHRONIC EAR INFECTIONS.

HE WAS THEN DIAGNOSED WITH -- DISORDER AT AGE 7 1/2, AND THAT'S WHERE OUR WHOLE JOURNEY TOOK A LITTLE DETOUR.

THE DISORDER CAN ATTACK ANYWHERE IN YOUR GI SYSTEM.

FOR LUCAS IT WAS HISESOPHAGUS.

PRETTY MUCH HIS ESOPHAGUS BECAME A BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN HIS WHITE BLOOD CELLS AND FOOD PROTEIN.

FOR SOME PEOPLE IT COULD BE THE DAIRY IN DAIRY, WHEAT, CORN, OR SOY.

HIS DIAGNOSIS CAME EARLY SO HE WAS ON THE FOREFRONT IN TRIAL CONTROL OF THE DISEASE.

FOR HIM IT BECAME A FOOD ELIMINATION DIET.

WE REMOVED WHEAT, SOY, DAIRY, THE WHOLE PROTOCOL, AND USING MEDICATIONS TO KEEP THE INFLAMMATION AT BAY.

UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM IT DIDN'T WORK.

THE ONLY OPTION WAS TO REMOVE ALL FOOD AND START ON A MEDICAL BASED FORMULA.

AT THE TIME THE ONLY FOOD THAT DIDN'T HAVE A BINDER THAT WOULD ACTIVATE HIS DISEASE WAS SUGAR, SO HE HAD UNLIMITED SUGAR IN HIS DIET.

AS A 12-YEAR-OLD HE START OFF LOVING IT BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE AS MUCH DUMB DUMB LOLLIPOP, COTTON CANDY AS HE WANTED IN HIS DIET.

WE REALLY STARTED LOOKING AT LABELS.

IT WOULD TAKE TWO, THREE HOURS TO GROCERY SHOP BECAUSE YOU HAD TO READ EVERY LABEL.

WE NO LONGER DID PREPACKAGED ANYTHING, BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GUARANTEE THERE MAY BE SOMETHING IN THERE THAT WOULD TRIGGER HIM.

A BIG PART OF OUR LIVES BECAME FOOD BASE.

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OUR FIRST VENTURE INTO FARMING STARTED WITH A BLUEBERRY PATCH.

SO WE PLANTED 200 BLUEBERRY BUSHES.

NEXT SPRING WE WERE ANTICIPATING BLUERY JAMS, MUFFINS, AND EVERYTHING THAT WOULD ENTAIL WITH THAT, BUT THE BUSHES OBTAINED BLIGHT AND WIPED OUT THE ENTIRE -- WE DON'T HAVE ONE BUSH LEFT.

THAT WAS OUR FIRST GO AROUND, WHICH DIDN'T GO SO WELL.

WE LOOKED INTO DEVELOPING HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES, AND THAT WASTED A YEAR, BECAUSE BETWEEN BABIES AND KIDS AND WASHING BEETS AT MIDNIGHT AND CUTTING FLOWERS AT 4:00 A.M. TO TAKE THEM TO THE MARKET THE NEXT DAY, WE LEARNED TO HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THOSE WHO DO THAT KIND OF FARMING BECAUSE IT'S A LABOR OF LOVE AND VERY INTENSE AND VERY KNOWLEDGE BASED, WHICH WE DID NOT HAVE THAT KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER.

WHERE WE LIVE, THIS IS BEFORE AMAZON, BEFORE TRADER JOE'S, BEFORE ONLINE ANYTHING.

THE CLOSEST MARKET THAT WE COULD REALLY FIND CLEAN MEAT -- WHAT WE WOULD CALL CLEAN MEAT WAS ABOUT AN HOUR AND 20 MINUTES AWAY.

THAT'S WHEN WE HAD THE DISCUSSION OF, DO YOU THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD DO?

WE SAVED UP EVERY PENNY AND BOUGHT FOUR PIGS WITH THE THOUGHT THAT, WORST CASE WE DON'T SELL ANY, WE CAN ALWAYS -- FRIENDS, FAMILY, FOR OURSELVES, AND THEN PIGS LED TO CHICKENS LED TO BEEF LED TO LAMBS.

CONVENTIONAL FARMING HAS A PLACE IN SOCIETY, AND YOU KNOW, KUDOS TO ANYONE IN AGRICULTURE, THE WORK THAT HE DID IS TRULY A PASSION.

WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, CONVENTIONAL FARMING IS A VERY TRADITIONAL, YOU KNOW, RURAL CROP FARMING OR YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF HEAD OF BEEF.

WE'RE CONSIDERED MORE NICHE FARMING.

WE'RE VERY, VERY SMALL IN WHAT WE DO.

OUR ANIMALS ARE IN PASTURE, NO ANTIBIOTICS, COMMITTED TO NONHORMONE FEED.

THOSE ARE THINGS IMPORTANT TO US.

IT'S ALSO WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO TO FEED OUR SON.

BEING A YOUNG FARMER -- MAYBE NOT IN AGEWISE, BECAUSE WE WERE NOT THAT YOUNG, BUT NEW TO THE WHOLE INDUSTRY OF AGRICULTURE, THE MARKET HAS BEEN REALLY HELPFUL, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE -- WHETHER IT'S BAKERS OR BREWERS, MEAT PRODUCERS, VEGETABLE BREWERS THAT HAVE A SIMILAR STORY.

MAYBE THERE CHILD WASN'T SICK AND NEEDED TO FIND A FOOD SOURCE FOR THEIR FAMILY, BUT SO MANY OF OUR FELLOW MARKETERS HAVE A STORY TO TELL.

IT'S THROUGH THAT COMMUNITY WE KIND OF WRAP AROUND EACH OTHER.

LUCAS LAST COUNT HAD 43 DIFFERENT MEDICAL PROCEDURES AT THE END OF ALL OF THAT.

HE HAD 13 SAFE FOODS.

HE DECIDED HIS FRESHMAN YEAR IN COLLEGE THAT HE JUST NEEDED A BREAK FROM IT ALL, AND HE REALLY WORKED ON, LIKE, CLEANING HIS DIET AND IS REALLY CONSCIOUS OF LABEL READING AND HAS COMMITTED TO A VERY ACTIVE LIFESTYLE.

SO HE'S AN AVID ROCK CLIMBER, AVID CYCLIST, AVID OUTDOOR ENTHUSIAST.

WE JOKE WE SPENT 13 YEARS GETTING HIM WELL ENOUGH TO HANG OFF A THREE-QUARTER INCH ROPE, BUT HE'S LIVING HIS BEST LIFE.

EMBRACE THE YOURI MAY NOT BE THE ONE YOU IMAGINED OR DESIGNED OR HOPED FOR, BUT THERE'S GOOD AND GREATNESS THAT CAN BE FOUND EACH STEP OF THE WAY.

I THINK TELLING THE STORY IS A BIT HEALING.

IT BROUGHT US TOGETHER.

FIGHTING THE BATTLE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY AND BUILDING THE BUSINESS TOGETHER AS A FAMILY.

I THINK THAT PART OF MY JOURNEY IS I HAVE LOVED MEETING ALL THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

EN WHY, OUR STORY IS SO SIMILAR TO SO MANY OTHERS.

THOSE THAT ARE SEEKING FOOD THAT CAN HEAL THEIR BODY AND HELP THEIR BODY.

>> THERE ARE SO MANY UNIQUE, LITTLE FARMS IN OHIO, JAVIER.

TABLE EXPERIENCE SOMETHING SPECIAL.

>> IT SURE DOES.

>.> ALL RIGHT, CHARLENE, I THINK WE'RE READY TO FIND OUT IF ACTOR LON CHANEY IS RELATED TO THE O.P.

CHANEY FAMILY FROM THE FIRST STORY.

>> YOU READY?

>> I THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER ASK.

LET'S FIND OUT.

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>>> WE WERE ASKED THE QUESTION WHETHER LON CHANEY THE MOVIE ACTOR HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE O.P.

CHANEY MILL IN CANAL WINCHESTER AND FIGURE OUT IF THERE WAS A RELATION TO THE FAMILY.

THE STORY OF LON CHANEY IS NUMBER ONE, IT'S NOT HIS REAL NAME.

THE FIRST THING I FIND OUT WAS HIS REAL NAME WAS LEONIDAS CHANEY, AND I WAS ABLE TO FIND HIM IN THE LOS ANGELES CENSUS IN 1920 AND FOUND HIS FATHER'S NAME WAS FRANK H. CHANEY, WHICH WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE I HAVE THE MIDDLE INITIAL, AND I WAS ABLE TO TRACE FRANK AND LON TOGETHER IN LOS ANGELES.

FRANK, I WAS ABLE TO TRACK HIM BACK TO COLORADO SPRINGS.

THIS IS 1900.

AND I WAS ABLE TO FIND FRANK WITH A WIFE NAMED EMMA AND A SON NAMED LEONARD.

FRANK IS BORN IN OHIO.

HE'S A BARBER.

WHAT I FIND OUT ABOUT FRANK, HE WAS DEAF.

HE ACTUALLY WAS AT A DEAF SCHOOL IN MISSOURI, AND THAT'S WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE EMMA KENNEDY AT.

I TRACED FRANK BACK TO OHIO LIVING HIS FATHER JAMES CHANEY IN CANAL WINCHESTER.

I WAS ABLE TO FIND HIM IN BLOOM TOWNSHIP WITH HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER.

YOU HAVE JOHN, JAMES, FRANK.

YOU HAVE THREE GENERATIONS TOGETHER, WHICH MADE IT VERY EASY.

ONCE I GOT THERE I WAS LIKE, THREE GENERATIONS TOGETHER.

SEE THEM ALL TOGETHER.

WHEN I WAS ASKED ABOUT THE MILL, I NEEDED TO FIND OUT FIRST WHO O.P.

CHANEY WAS, OLIVER P. CHANEY, AND HIS FATHER, JOHN CHANEY.

JAMES AND O.P.

ARE HALF BROTHERS.

JAMES WAS BORN FROM THE FIRST MARRIAGE WHERE OLIVER WAS BORN FROM THE SECOND MARRIAGE JOHN CHANEY HAD.

WHAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT JOHN CHANEY IS I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT HE WAS.

I THOUGHT HE WAS A FARMER WHO HELPED WITH THE MILL, BUT I STARTED LOOKING INTO HIM MORE AND FOUND HE WAS A STATE SENATOR, A STATE REP, AND ALSO A U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.

ULTIMATELY LON HAD A CHILD NAMED CREIGHTON.

HE TOOK THE NAME LON CHANEY JR. BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH ACTORS.

THEY DIED RELATIVELY YOUNG, HAD HEALTH PROBLEMS.

SO IN THE END, YES, THE RUMOR'S TRUE.

AT FIRST I HAD MY DOUBTS, BUT ULTIMATELY I DID FIND THAT OHIO CONNECTION AND PROVED IT WAS IN FACT A RELATION.

>> WOSU'S CURIOUS CBUS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS.

TODAY OHIOENS WEAR THE NICKNAME BUCKEYE WITH PRIDE.

HOW DID IT BECOME SO BELOVED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

THE ORIGIN STORY WE HAVE BEEN TOLD AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR GENERATIONS MIGHT JUST BE A TALL TALE.

WE ASKED HISTORIAN RAYMOND IRWIN TO TELL US MORE.

>> THE NICKNAME APPLIED TO HUMAN BEINGS COMES FROM A HISTORIAN WHO WROTE A BOOK IN 1852 IN WHICH HE CLAIMED THAT THE NICKNAME CAME FROM AN EARLY SETTLER EBENEZER SKROET WHO WAS A COLONEL IN THE MILITIA AND LED COURT IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.

FROM THERE, THE STORY GOES, THAT SOME FRIENDLY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WERE THERE AND SHOUTED THE NAME HETUK AT HIM, WHICH THE WHITE TRANSLATORS TRANSLATED AS, EYE OF THE BUCK, BECAUSE SKROET WAS 6'4" AND WELL BUILT.

AND THE IDEA IS THAT THAT NICKNAME BECAME APPLIED TO OTHER SETTLERS IN THE AREA AND BECAME APPLIED TO PEOPLE OF OHIO THEN ON.

THE REAL STORY, THOUGH, IS THAT HILLDRETT MADE UP THE STORY, AND WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE IT HAS NO RELATION TO BUCKEYE.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, AFTER DIGGING IN THE NATIVE LANGUAGES I FOUND IT PROBABLY COMES FROM THE DELAWARE WORD FOR HICKTOK, WHICH JUST MEANS TREE.

HE WAS COMMENTING ON HIS SIZE, AND BASICALLY SAID, THAT GUY IS AS BIG AS A TREE, AND THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE IT CAME FROM.

SO, THE NAME BUCKEYE THEN BECAME APPLIED TO HUMANS, WE THINK, IN THE 18-TEENS AND '20s, AND MEANT ESSENTIALLY A PERSON FROM THE WEST OR FRONTIER.

WASN'T INITIALLY APPLIED TO PEOPLE OF OHIO AT ALL UNTIL WE THINK THE LATE 1820s, 1830s, AND BY 1833, A PHYSICIAN USES THE NAME BUCKEYE TO REFER TO PEOPLE BORN IN OHIO.

IN THE 1830s, THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT MBU POSITIVE CANDIDATES.

ONE OF THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES WAS THE FIRST PERSON BORN IN OHIO, 1802.

HE USED THE CAMPAIGN BUCKEYE HAS A CAMPAIGN NICKNAME.

THERE WAS A STRIP THAT CLAIMED TOLEDO.

MICHIGAN CLAIMED IT.

THEY SENT IN MILITIAS AND THERE WAS A WAR, AND GOVERNOR LUCAS USED THE WORD BUCKEYE TO BE A BATTLE CRY.

THE BUCKEYES WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED.

THEN IN 1876 WHEN HE USED THE THEME FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY, WHICH WAS SUCCESSFUL, AND IN 1840, THE LOG CABIN CAMPAIGN, THE LOG CABIN IS MADE FROM BUCKEYE WOOD.

SO YOU GO FROM AN INSULT IN THE 18-TEENS TO SOMETHING OF PRIDE IN THE 1830s.

VERY QUICK TURNAROUND FOR THE BUCKEYE.

>> DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR CURIOUS CBUS?

HEAD OVER TO WOSU.ORG TO SUBMIT YOUR IDEA, VOTE ON WHICH QUESTION WE SHOULD SUBMIT NEXT AND SEE WHAT WE'VE COVERED SO FAR.

>>> THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, AND REMEMBER, YOU CAN CATCH ALL OF OUR EPISODES ON COLUMBUSNEIGHBORHOODS.ORG.

>> PLUS SEE OUR STORIES ON THE WOSU MOBILE APP.

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WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE NEXT WEEK ON "COLUMBUS NEIGHBORHOODS."

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