Nostalgic tour through Fairmont

Will you be near Sarasota Feb. 6, 2015?

Bill Meredith, Class of 1957, who lives in Sarasota, Florida and Buckeye Lake, Ohio, captured a March 2013 nostalgic drive through Fairmont in a YouTube video.

The journey through memory lane begins in West Chester, turns onto Country Club Road, then onto Fairmont Avenue through downtown, and back out past St. Peter’s Church and C.V. News – Jeanie Nagel will enjoy a look at the place she once owned with her husband – on Locust Avenue, past Fairmont State and Fairmont General Hospital and back through West Chester, where the Monongah High Alumni Reunion once was housed in Westchester Village, ending after going past the spot where Fairmont Field Club caddies used to gather after their work day was done, sitting on the stone steps, hitchhiking a ride home to Monongah.

It brought back a lot of warm memories for me. 

If you have 17½ minutes to spare, particularly if you haven’t been to The Friendly City for a few decades, click on  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPG9gPOt-A

Speaking of Monongah High Alumni Reunions, Bill and wife Roleta will be hosting the third annual Monongah High Alumni Reunion/Sarasota at noon Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 at their Sarasota home. If you will be near Sarasota then, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and let him know you are coming and if you’ll be bringing a guest so Roleta will know how many to provide food for. 

Or you can email Bill at BillMere@aol.com or phone him at (941) 342-0030. 

His address is

Bill Meredith

3201 Charles Macdonald Dr

Sarasota, FL 34240-8714

There usually are at least a dozen happy, chatting people with memories of Monongah High dancing in their eyes.

If you can't make it to Sarasota Feb. 6, but are close enough to visit Paula and me in The Villages, Florida while we're renting on Rainbow Drive for three months (January-March, 2015), email me or, if it's January, February or March, call me at (330) 388-4466 and we'll arrange a mini-Monongah High reunion.

There hasn’t been a get-together of former Lions yet that hasn’t been fun. I speak from first-hand experience. 

Try it. See you in Florida. It's a lot warmer than where you are, I'm guessing, in the winter.