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The Big City
© By Abraham Lincoln
There are lots of places to eat in Brookville, Ohio — not to be
confused with Brookville, Indiana with the big lake. Our biggest lake
is in Golden Gate Park and while you wouldn't want to go skinny-dipping
there with big snapping turtles, it is nice to sit and look.
The place to go downtown for a meal or a cup of coffee is Market Street
Cafe. Then for the big sandwiches, give O'Riley's across from the
icehouse, a try. You can locate Singer's, still in the basement where
it always was, serving excellent meals; or, try K's on Arlington that
has anything you want — from fried mush, buffalo burgers and shrimp — a
place famous for pies.
And those buffet buffoons will have to loosen their girdles and belts
after several trips to the buffet over at Rob's Restaurant. Lest I
forget, the Brookville Grill, where hot dogs and hamburgers; and
homemade ice cream are always on the menu. There are plenty of places
to eat in Brookville.
You can still find McDonalds, Wendy's, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Express,
Lee's Famous Recipe, Subway, Great Wall, Pizza Hut, Sarah's and Arby's,
for the quick fixes, either sit down, or on the go meals.
For a preview of things to come, in your future, you might wander into
the dining room of Brookhaven and see what it is like to eat with a
bunch of Brookville's aged citizens.
A swimming mother duck, followed by eight, nine or ten ducklings will
be lucky to make the opposite bank with one duckling — such is the
ferocity of snapping turtles.
On the other hand, if you want a place to get away from it all, Golden
Gate Park is, by far, the most secretive spot in town. It is out there
on the edge of civilization and there are lots of “fields” — football,
soccer, and softball —show up and go for it.
There is only one professional photographer in town — since Priser and
Thokey closed their doors forever; and he is considered the local PhD
of picture taking — the only businessman from Brookville to have made
the Wall Street Journal. The late Jerry Leiber (long time
postmaster) said to anyone listening, "He was in the Wall Street
Journal."
Speaking of photography, there is also art and writing — stories that
fill empty heads with things long since forgotten.
You can choose to educate yourself and learn more than you think you
know — this is especially true for those who have grown up with
television in every room. There is more to watching Wild Kingdom than
grabbing the fluffy tail of a skunk — whoops! Some say tomato juice
works?
I am waiting for a Golden Eagle to land on my board fence. I have had
all kinds of hawks so why not just one golden eagle.
Some cities larger than this have zoos but we got a theater where the
unskilled can become performers.
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