Timothy Brian McKee, History Columnist

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2018. There was one year in the 1970s when it got really cold early enough in the winter season […]

Senator John Sherman had a large presence in Mansfield for a half century even if he wasn’t actually here most of that time.  He certainly had a large home in […]

Elizabeth Sherman was born on Park Avenue West just a couple blocks off Central Park, so her playground growing up was the public square, in front of her father’s office. […]

The snow storm in 1913 left “two feet on the level, and drifted in places so that it was more than six and seven feet deep.” Traffic was tied up, […]

There are all sorts of small, incremental steps on the road from ignorance and intolerance, to the place where people are equally respectful and supportive of one another in a […]

When this photo was taken of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on Springmill Street in 1909, it was so new the ground was still broken. At the time, it was referred […]

I remember as a kid, reading about how our town got the name Mansfield, and being somewhat underwhelmed that it was named after a guy who never even set foot […]

We pretty much take it for granted today, and don’t particularly notice the underpass on Park Avenue East: it is simply a landmark on the way through. But in 1925, […]

When the house lights begin to dim, and the footlights are rising like the first of dawn: that is the moment when the lines blur between worlds of daylight reality […]