All the excitement surrounding the City of Aurora’s plans to purchase land on the south side of Geauga Lake and turn it into a park area has me reminiscing about the good old days when I worked as a landscaper at the amusement park there.
Yes, I was a landscaper at Geauga Lake. Me, someone who has difficulty screwing in a lightbulb — and I’m only slightly exaggerating — was given heavy equipment to operate. It was the summer season of 1987. I was 19 years old, in between my freshman and sophomore years at the University of Akron, and I somehow managed to finish out the season with all my limbs accounted for — but there were days when that was touch and go.
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