Guide to Yellow Springs 2012-13 by Yellow Springs News

Guide to Yellow Springs 2012-13

THE GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2012–13

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS

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Bryan Gregor Bryan Gregor was born in Italy in 1929. He chose geology as a profession and, in 1968, a Case Western University geology project brought Gregor and his wife to the United States. Bryan’s job at Wright State teaching geology brought the family — his wife, Anna, and sons Tomaso and Matteo — to the Dayton area. He was shown many different places around the area to live, but when he stumbled across Yellow Springs, he took the job and never looked back. In 1973, the family moved to their West North College Street home, which is one of the older homes in town, built in 1832. Bryan found his home when he was house-hunting in the village, and stopped to ask directions from a man working in his yard. The man said if he waited a year, Bryan could buy his house, and the Gregor family did just that. When Bryan was younger he enjoyed walking in the Glen and playing the piano. Anna died almost 20 years ago, but most of his family — his son from a former marriage, Andrew, lives in California — is still nearby, with Tomaso and his family, including grandson, William, the next block over, and Matteo on the other side of the village. Retired only three years from Wright State, Bryan enjoys his early morning walks to the Emporium, where he checks out the coffee shop’s small library and sometimes meets Matteo for coffee. And at home he often reads in his library, which is stuffed with geol-

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ogy books as well as contemporary American and British literature, with his 17-year-old cat, Kitsia, by his side.

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Gregor was shown many different places, but when he stumbled across Yellow Springs, he never looked back.

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