Writer's effort highlights many 'Legendary Locals of Berea' - Around the Town | cleveland.com

The publication is one of just five new books to date, heralding the beginning of a new national “Legendary Locals” series by Arcadia Publishing of Columbia, S.C., publishers of the widely-known “Images of America” series.

“There are probably two hundred or more notable Bereans, living and deceased,” in the book, Mote said, explaining that Arcadia “wanted at least a third of the people in it to be contemporaries.”

William “Bill” Allman, founder and director of the Berea Summer Theatre; Cleveland Browns football legend Lou “The Toe” Groza; former Mayor John “Jack” Kafer and his wife, Joan; the Revs. John Garrity and Leroy McCreary; local historian Betsy Menzel; former Baldwin-Wallace College President Alfred Bryan “A.B.” Bonds and his wife, Georgianne; Dr. Ed White; and the late John Michael Tebelak, of “Godspell” fame, are among those appearing in the book.

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