RIX Hill closed factory accelerates down snowfields in the sled with his friend, Joe Glass take in the breathtaking but the awful.
We got away with fairly quickly, but didn t aware there was barbed wire at the bottom of the Hill, he said. “We bailed out, and it was the end of the sled. We did a lot of sled riding.
Glass, who now lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Fondly remember this as one of the many cherished memories of childhood that he had grown in Rix Mills during the 1920s and 30s. He said he spent as much time as a child playing at St. Clair’s Hill, which seems to be a giant revolving Earth at the time.
That’s how the mound depicted in hundreds of paintings by old friend, the late Glass Paul d. Patton. Patton was born and raised in the small village, now part of rich hill town between Concord and new Chandlersville.
Patton served in World War II as a bomber pilot, then entered the world of teaching. After retiring as head of elementary school in Cleveland, he was motivated to visit his hometown. While he wanted to return to his roots, he was disappointed by how much the change.