In September, I moved from the Texas Gulf Coast to Ohio. Shortly after getting here, I took this walk around the Village of Yellow Springs in Greene County, east of Dayton, between Springfield and Xenia (two towns I will get to soon).
This place has only a few thousand people but has a long history of civil rights, left-wing politics and such which Greene County as a whole - it's home to Wright-Patterson AFB and lots of military personnel - is not known for. It was intended to be a utopian community.
It was one of the final stops of the Underground Railroad, a target of Red Scare communist-hunting in the 1950s, a center of civil rights and Vietnam War protest in the 60s and 70s. All in the unlikeliest of places.
Enough talk. Time for photos. Let's begin.
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Just remember, if you come across a sign that points to ice cream in one direction and a brewery in another, that you can't make a wrong turn.
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