Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., The whirligig of time, September 6, 1924

              Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://bit.ly/scripps_mss117
...r~u. .. AcDRESS AND GENERAL. OFFICES:
l§HE E. W. SCRIPPS COMPANY
UNITED BANK BUILDING
CINCINNATI. OHIO
E. W. SCRIPPS
WEST CHESTER. BUTLER CO ..
OHIO
Aboard Yacht "Ohio",
At Sea
September 6, 1924.
DIARY NOTES - "THE WHIRLIDIG OF TIME".
I desired that my son Robert sho cld establish a home in one of the
Eastern States.
Raving been granted an appropriation by me, he started oat on a
hoase-hantiDg expedition.
A few months ago he reported to me that he .had selected and purchased
an estate at, or rather, near, Ridgefield, ConDeoticut.
In A~ ust of this year ( 1924) I anchored my l7RCh t at Norwalk, Connecticut ,
on Lo~ Island Solllld;. this port of Norwalk bei~ only some thirty or forty miles
from Ridgefield.
I drove up to my son's new home, where I foUDi him and his wife Peggy,
and their tour children.
I drove through the town of Ridgefield - a snall place of some eight
hundred population.
The village itself is an attractive one and for many miles all arou.rd.
it the cowtry is principally occupied by estates, owned, largely, by well-to-do
city men.
T'his morning J)Uss Steelman has been .reading me a short historical sketch
ot Ridgefield.
It appears that the m:>st notable human product of the town was a man
named Goodrie.h. He was a literjal"y man as well as a business man - a publisher
as well as a writer of bookS. His :oom de plwne was "Peter J?arleyn.