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Dresden, Ohio
This quaint little town calls itself "Basket Village USA" and I think they
could be right. The pleasant tree-lined main shopping street (left) contains such
stores as Basket Barn, Hooked on Baskets, Bay-side Baskets and Basket of Dreams, all
selling baskets of various shapes and sizes plus a vast range of basket accessories. The
middle picture shows the world's largest basket - 48 feet long and it took 2,000 hours
of work to build. On the right is the former school house, now Longaberger University
where they teach - you've guessed it - basket weaving and basket selling.
So, why was I in Dresden? A sudden interest in baskets? Of course not! I arrived
on an excursion train run by the Ohio Central Railroad, a pleasant trundle through
the countryside powered by this wonderful pair
of GM 'F' locomotives.
2 December 2000
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