Articles About why YS?
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Happy to be home again
When people ask Zo Van Eaton Meister if she grew up in Yellow Springs, she usually replies, “Sort of.” The story of her connection to the village is complicated.
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They’re villagers, thanks to Google
A simple Google search brought Dorothy Dean and Jarod Rogers to Yellow Springs. “I literally Googled, ‘What is the most liberal town in Ohio?’” Dean recalled, laughing, in a recent interview.
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Village a great place to raise children
In the late 1960s when Robert and Olga Harris moved to the village, racial segregation and prejudice was a reality in most cities and towns. But in Yellow Springs, they found a place where their children were free to be who they wanted to be without the burden of racial prejudice.
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‘Nomads’ decide to settle down in Village
An artist and an academic move to Yellow Springs. They find people, jobs, a community they enjoy. They have a child. In a few years, they buy a house. They make plans for their little boy’s future. In short, they settle down.
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Choosing a college and a town
When Lori Collins-Hall and Chris Burgher first visited Yellow Springs two years ago, they were checking out the village as a place to live.
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Living, learning in the real world
Meet Alexandra Scott: event planner, poet, activist, coffeehouse lover, future entrepreneur, villager.
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From ‘the last frontier’ to Ohio
Before moving to Yellow Springs, Eric and Kelley Oberg had never owned a home with a doorbell.
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At 83, she’s no longer invisible
For her 60th birthday, Joan Champie jumped out of a plane. “I grinned all the way down,” she said of her first tandem parachute jump.
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Making a good life in Yellow Springs
Walk by a certain Cliff Street porch on a spring or summer evening, and Cory and Amanda Howard will likely be out in the cooling air.
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Artist family makes it work in Yellow Springs
Anna Burke, her husband, Ryan Stinson, and their daughter, Presley, are a young family whose appreciation for Yellow Springs has evolved over their four years in the village.
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