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Article: NOTHING SARDONIC ABOUT SARDINIA
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- August 24, 2004
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COMMENTARY
Leg 33 of our virtual Around-the-World journey is an eastward sail
through the straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. Leg 33 of
our real Around-the-World-in-Ohio trek is a drive southeast to Brown
County.
Both trips take us to Sardinia.
Any tie between the two is tenuous. Barber Ken Kelch says he once
saw a poem that called the Italian isle inspiration for the village,
but a Brown County guide says the area was first called Lilley, for
its first postmaster. When a town was platted in 1833, the honor of
naming it was given to a local doctor, who picked the title of his
favorite tune in the Methodist Hymnal.
Just what hymns are sung to `Sardinia' is hard to say, because,
say ...