When it comes to colorful characters
there aren't many more colorful than Dick Dornish from my home town
of St. Marys, Pennsylvania. I've known Dick most of my life and it
was always fun to run into him because he always had a story to tell.
Among his many gifts is an ability to draw and throughout the years
our local newspaper, The Daily Press, often featured Dick's cartoons
about local issues.
In 1995 Dick, with the cooperation of
The Daily Press, began an extraordinarily ambitious project. He set
about documenting the history of our town in comic-strip format. He
drew nearly 300, 4-panel strips and they were all printed in the
paper. Now, with Dick's permission, Dennis Lecker has digitized all
of those strips and created a web site for them. It is called The St. Marys Town Saga. You can read about
the founding and first hundred years of the town, St. Marys, that
served as my model for the town of Marienstadt in my book The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall. Enjoy!
Thanks for reading.
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