Playwrights bring Erma Bombeck’s story to life

By LINDA FEAGLER

When playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel reminisce about the many idyllic times they shared while growing up in Chagrin Falls, the memories include a weekday ritual the twin sisters still chuckle about.

work has appeared in Lorain’s “The Morning Journal,” “The Washington Post” and “The Des Moines Register.” She and her husband, Bruce Adams, who reside in Bethesda, Maryland, wrote three editions of “Baseball Vacations,” a travel guide to America’s ballparks.

In 2000, the sisters collaborated on “Food

Finds: America’s Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them” and helped turn the book into a Food Network show that ran for seven years.

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Vintage Ohio Wine Festival will take place at Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland on August 4 and 5. Photograph courtesy of Vintage Ohio