Gatherings
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Background
Leaving Coshocton for the first time opened my eyes – truly opened them. My entire life up until my departure, I knew only small town America. Sitting on my porch and recognizing the person in every other car was common for me – to say I was nervous to leave is an understatement. What did the big city lights have in store for me? Who would I meet? Who would I become? These questions and more flooded my mind on my car ride to my new home. The college experience could be defined as comical if nothing else. Thousands of kids acting as adults acting as scholars. You’re supposed to…
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Daughter, Mother
DAUGHTER, MOTHER 3/1 – 4/27, 2013. A first time showing of the work of Megan and Marsha Tyhurst. Opening Friday, March 1 Daughter: Megan Tyhurst wants to be an author and illustrator. She has finished her first book and is in the process of working on her own illustrations for it. Her favorite medium to draw with is graphite. Though Megan finds inspiration visually through books and photographs, she rarely draws from a photograph. Rather she works from her imagination or from life. Megan is an 8th grader at River View Junior High. Mother: Marsha Tyhurst’s inspiration comes from animals. Painting in acrylics, she enjoys making them come alive on her canvas…
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Introducing Myself.
Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is Alex Hardesty. I’m a recent graduate from the Ohio State University, and like so many of my generational brethren, have found myself back home – not that there’s anything wrong with this, it’s just something that’s happened. And since my return I’ve noticed something about my surroundings: Coshocton has changed since I last left it. People have gone, buildings have evolved for better or worse, establishments have birthed, some have perished, sidewalks are thinning, people are sparse. The town in which I grew up seemed foreign, as if there were a Coshocton County in Kansas. I, myself, welcomed such a change…
