In cool autumn weather, the barn can still host a small. This gorgeous barn is surrounded by gardens and groves of trees, perfect for hosting an outdoor wedding reception or family reunion. This completely restored pre-Civil War germanic style bank barn was recently awarded the Stewardship Award from the Friends of Ohio Barns. Some other items of note were a "Fresh Eggs For Sale" tin sign with a painting of a chicken on it that had once hung at the end of the farm's lane, which sold for $70 a curly maple one-piece rolling pin touted by the auctioneer as having been made from wood cut right on the farm, $75 several men's straw boater hats found in the attic, $40-$50 a primitive type of oak wall telephone, $100 group of gas light fixtures from the house, $210 and the broad axe that was used to hew the logs for the original Gish log house, bank barn and the family's second house, which is now curated by the Rittman Historical Society, $65. The Gish Barn in Rittman, OH was originally built in the 1820s. Cast by a Massillon company, it sold for $3,400. This fantastic episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR from 1963 showcases Miss Lillian as good as anything she ever did in the sound film era. Top money of the sale was brought by a cast iron horse hitching post in the form of a black man with his arm reaching out. Body in The Barn (1964) Alfred Hitchcock The great Lillian Gish, one of the legends of the silent screen, was a superlative actress throughout her life. An 1880s plat book of Wayne County sold for $80 as well. one in 1835 and the other in 1836 - went for $140 and $80. Two family bibles printed in Lancaster, Pa. Some books fared well, with an 1873 Wayne County atlas going for $220 and a copy of Harper's History of the Civil War selling for $450. The brass hand bell that she had used to summon her students to class sold for $50, a small early wooden classroom globe that would have sat on her desk sold for $75 and a 1906 schoolhouse wall map went for $70. I wonder how he would have contributed to The Wizard of Oz.Some of the items in the auction harked back to Evangeline Gish Ohlinger's early teaching days in the county.Ĭurrently the owner of the house, Ohlinger was an early teacher in a Rittman one-room school house. Hitch as the scarecrow was also a funny bit. Sorry to hear from other reviewers that she committed suicide. Audrey Hepburn! Just couldn't quite put my finger on the resemblance as I watched the episode. And thanks to one reviewer for reminding me of who Maggie McNamara resembled. Lillian Gish easily dominates the proceedings, though the other actors also turn in fine performances. Meanwhile, the body count piles up pretty high for such a cozy drama, which in a way is also appropriate to bring out the nastiness underlying the pastoral surroundings. What can you say? Sometimes you really do have to suspend disbelief. There's some hand-waving about "quicklime," but that would have had no effect on those pesky little teeth. I know this was before the days of DNA analysis, but a glance at dental records would have easily confirmed that the corpse couldn't be the hen-pecked husband. Her friend, Alice Niles, was looking for a little girl to be in a touring company of In Convict's Stripes, which would be playing in a barn in the village. The problem, as one reviewer sourly notes, is that the plot turns on a ridiculously mistaken identification of, yes, the body in the barn. The two-wrongs-make-a-right plot is bitterly ironic, as befits the bitterly ironic lady played by Miss Lillian. Like everybody else, I loved Lillian Gish's performance as the annoying busybody who sets off a crazy chain of fatal consequences in a bucolic bit of the American countryside.
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