Tag: anonymous

Thousands expected in Akron to mark founding of Alcoholics Anonymous

Thousands of visitors from near and far will be in Greater Akron this weekend to mark the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like in year’s past, this Founders Day gathering will be at University of Akron but visitors will be touring sites in and around the city that played roles in the organization’s history. The university has a relatively […]

Buried stories: Anonymous, but not forgotten

Apr. 14—FIFE LAKE — As she walks the hallowed grounds of Fife Lake Cemetery, sexton Lisa Plamondon is haunted by the anonymous dead. Pausing at Lot No. 59, she points to a spot where ground-penetrating radar and archival records suggest that Byron A. Rogers, a blind Civil War veteran, was buried after dying at the […]