Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place

218 Pages·2017·7.04 MB·English

by  Ervin Fred Carlisle

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Hollow and Home

Hollow and Home
A History of Self and Place
E. FRED CARLISLE
west virginia university press
morgantown 2017
Copyright 2017 West Virginia University Press
All rights reserved
First edition published 2017 by West Virginia University Press
ISBN
CL: 978-1-943665-81-5
PB: 978-1-943665-82-2
EPUB: 978-1-943665-83-9
PDF: 978-1-943665-84-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is available from the Library of Congress.
Book and cover design by Than Saffel / WVU Press
For
Beth
My unexpected treasure
And for
My dear daughters
Lindy, Becky, Ginna, and Jana

Contents
List of Photographs and Illustrations / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
The Place Is the Thing / xiii
1. James Melville Cox and Brookside Farm / 1
2. Placeless in America / 13
Hollow
3. Clover Hollow: Our Sanctuary / 19
4. Three Meadow Mountain: Homage and Innovation / 25
5. Clover Hollow: The Place / 40
6. The 1875 Lafon Home Place / 44
7. The 1892 Givens Home Place / 52
8. Outsiders Fitting In / 65
9. Interlude / 77
Home
10. A Boy from Columbus. A Man of Delaware, Ohio / 81
11. 208 West Lincoln Avenue / 100
12. The Delaware City Schools / 112
North Elementary / 112
Frank B. Willis High School / 116
13. Downtown Delaware / 128
14. The Road Out: Ohio Wesleyan University / 134
15. A Moveable Place / 155
16. New Delaware: The Place Is Still the Thing / 159
17. Oaknoll Farm: Elizabeth Adair Obenshain / 175
Notes / 185
Index / 191
List of Photographs
and Illustrations
Image 1. James M. Cox. Image by author / 3
Image 2. Brookside Farm. Image by author / 7
Ground plan 1. Brookside, main level. Chris Hudson, Shelter
Alternatives / 7
Ground plan 2. I-house ground plan. Chris Hudson, Shelter
Alternatives / 29
Ground plan 3. T-plan house, 1892 Givens home. Chris Hudson,
Shelter Alternatives / 30
Ground plan 4. Three Meadow Mountain, first floor. Hayden May,
architect / 31
Image 3. Three Meadow Mountain facade. Image by author / 33
Image 4. Lafon ruin, ca. 2000. Image by author / 45
Image 5. Lafon house, ca. 1920s. Courtesy of Wade Lafon / 46
Image 6. 1892 Givens Home Place, ca. 2000. Image by author / 55
Image 7. The Givens family, ca. 1910. Courtesy of the Givens-Vincel
family / 57
Image 8. Ervin Carlisle. Author’s personal archive / 82
Image 9. Frank B. Willis School, ca. 2012. Image by author / 119
Image 10. University Hall. Courtesy of Ohio Wesleyan University /
138
Image 11. Slocum reading room / 139
Image 12. Slocum reading room 2013 / 140
Image 13. Benjamin T. Spencer. Courtesy of the Ohio Wesleyan
University Historical Collection / 149
Image 14. Oaknoll Farm / 182