Webbed Feet and Concrete ; W E S T E R N O H I O C O U L D B Egoosestatuecapital

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Searching for the origins of the concrete goose turned out to be a wild goose chase. Nine years ago, I met a Chicagoan who had grown up in rural Champaign County. Learning I was from neighboring Miami County, he broached the topic of concrete geese, Ohio's ubiquitous yard ornament. He'd heard the geese were especially thick around Urbana and originated thereabouts.

Folks I interviewed who are in the business of selling concrete geese hadn't heard that tale, but say there's no doubt Ohio's right in the heart of the concrete goose phenomenon.

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Webbed Feet and Concrete ; W E S T E R N O H I O C O U L D B Egoosestatuecapital

"I think you're in the hotbed of goosedom," Rita Stricklin of Lovel...

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