Book description
"My cousin-by-marriage Sean Lavery, knowing my love for weird
and outré websites, sent me a link to the Dark Roasted Blend site
(www. darkroastedblend. com)," reveals the author,
"where I found several pages featuring photographs of abandoned
places. "My imagination was fired by pictures taken at Chippewa
Lake Park in Medina, Ohio, which opened in 1878 and was abandoned in
1978, with the buildings and rides left to rot where they stood, and I
began looking around for some information about the park. "I've
always had a fondness for amusement parks, ever since I was a child
visiting Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition with my father and my
brother: an annual trip which was one of the red-letter days on my
childhood calendar. The photographs of Chippewa Lake Park were equal
parts eerie and sad, for anyone who has ever thrilled to the sights
and sounds of a midway, and the story sprang, almost fully-formed,
into my head; one of the few times that's happened." To see some
of the pictures that inspired the following story, visit: www.
defunctparks. com/parks/OH/ChippewaLake/chippewa-lake. htm.
