Local artifact butchered by inattention

A sweet, but little-known local artifact was butchered last Saturday because historians failed to rally.

Baughman Memorial Park, a 63-acre out-of-the-way outdoor "art" gallery near Frazeysburg was carved up among buyers at an auction and split in different directions, never again to serve as a quaint tribute to the herculean work of a local sculptor.

Much was made of this place when Longaberger bought it ostensibly to preserve it for evermore. Nothing was made of it when Longaberger sold it to a logger last February for $310,000. Had they cared, Longaberger people could have prevented this disaster.

The Dispatch did a good report on on it at this link.

Here's another major loss to this area because this news came after the fact, not before, and preservationists weren't on guard.