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 Journa —Abraham Lincoln. 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?
 
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 unskilled citizens become performers.