Through High Places and Valleys

The steamboat traffic, freight and passenger, carried no end of fascination for the twins and Lou. The boys and Lou watched the activities from their room and then ventured to the muddy, fishy smelling riverfront to explore the steamboats that had pulled in. New foods were discovered in the wonderful German eateries that dotted the area. The boys loved the strudel and Lou favored the dark bitter sweet and seedy rye bread, fresh baked, with real butter. She even sipped a bit of Solon's favorite beer, Hedepol, touted as Cincinnati's finest German lager brew out of many. Baseball season was just past but the boys found the Redlegs Park and imagined playing in a real game there. They kidded about how good they'd do. Finally Jim said, "Well, Joe, maybe we can see a game, anyway."

"Someday, yes, someday we'll see Cincinnati whipping Anson's Chicago 'Orphans'", Joe responded.

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"Love saved humanity - men, women and children. Love saved you and me," Solon intoned to the just over 100 adults and some three dozen children standing on the dried grass of a building site on Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a bright winter Sunday morning. It was cold but the sun shined brilliantly. The cooking of Sunday meals from the neighborhood provided a fragrant atmosphere for the proceedings. Dr. Ulysses S. Milburn presided over the groundbreaking. Dr. Isaac Morgan Atwood of Crane Theological School at Tufts University, Boston, gave the key address.