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Apdx	The Barns Remain	"Zim"	Page 1	Page 2	Page 3
	But the Artist Are Forgotten!	Page 4	Page 5	Page 6	Appendix
APPENDIX There is a side story to all of this. The Zimmerman's are members of the Christ United Methodist Church which I have pastored for the last three years, since 1981. While Zim has been in the hospital this past winter, I had many occasions to visit with him. One afternoon he began to share with me what he had done for a living. I discovered that we had two things in common. First, I am an amateur sign painter and had an opportunity to work part time for a professional sign painter in Canton, Ohio, when I lived there about 10 years ago. I can appreciate what he had done for 35 years and a little of what was involved in his work. The second thing that we have in common is that after graduation from high school in 1956, I went to work for the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling. The same company that Zim had painted the signs for, He did advertising and I made the chewing tobacco. It's very nice to meet people that you have some things in common with and to talk to them about their experiences and share those things.