Thom or Barnaby? You decide.My paternal grandparents lived on the west edge of Bellevue in the house in which my dad and my grandfather grew up. It was about 4 miles east of our house, and the difference was enough to enable them to pick up the Cleveland television stations, while we were pretty much stuck with the Toledo stations. This, of course, was long before the days of cable or satellite TV, and the limiting factors were the height and sensitivity of your outside antenna and the weather.
It was at their house that we would watch channel 5 from Cleveland. On a children's program was a character named Barnaby. He wore a straw hat and had pointy ears and would probably be pretty scary to me as an adult, but as a kid, Barnaby seemed to be an okay dude. It is with great sadness that I report the demise of Barnaby.
Here's a link (as long as it's active) to a story about Barnaby's death.
Barnaby had a special place in the Gerhardstein household because my brother Thom had Barnaby ears. He eventually outgrew them, but we were often confused trying to figure out who was Barnaby and who was Thom. I guess we won't have that debate any longer.
