I lived for many years in Perry, Ohio, a rural community about an hour east of Cleveland in the heart of Ohio's "snow belt." Perry was notable for several things, including vast acres of prime nurseryland and a towering nuclear plant whose owner enticed the citizens to allow its construction by building one of the finest high school facilities in the Buckeye State. Perry was also the home of Hugh Mosher, who served as the model fifer for Archibald W. Willard's classic painting, the "Spirit of '76."
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