This story begins, as many of the best tales do, with the arrival of a dog.
Early in the pandemic, Loren Long and his wife, Tracy, rescued Charlie, a tricolor hound with baleful eyes and a foghorn howl.
He had energy to burn, so Long started running with him on a stretch of the Little Miami Scenic Trail, which meanders nearly 78 miles from Springfield, Ohio, to Cincinnati.
Along their daily route, the pair passed an abandoned, rusted-out school bus moldering at the far end of a field.
The faded yellow blended into a dense camouflage of trunks and leaves, but something about the bus caught Long’s eye.
Persons:
Loren Long, Tracy, Charlie, Long, ”
Organizations:
Little
Locations:
Springfield , Ohio, Cincinnati