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Massillon

Massillon is an Ohio city I had never heard of. It's much bigger than I expected, since I expected nothing. It's a crossroads of sorts. Our hotel is next to the Lincoln highway, the first road to cross the continent. Our hotel is also a couple of blocks from the Tuscarawas River, a link on the Ohio Erie canal.

Massillon has some excellent murals.

Massillon is known as the City of Champions.
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The arches in this mural point to the right.
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Or maybe to the left.
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On our way to Massillon we passed a lot of vegetable fields on a road called Swamp Street. It probably was a swamp at some point, the dark soil reminds me of fields in the Florida Everglades.

This soil can yield 3 crops of veggies per year.
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Are they still painting these Mail Pouch barns? This one should look pretty good after it weathers for 50 years.
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Two raptors munching on a rodent in a suburban yard.
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Red tailed hawk???
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Bill ShaneyfeltAgreed. Looks like a juvenile.

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/red-tailed-hawk
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