• Remembering President George W. Bush’s 2004 visit to Perrysburg
    Remembering President George W. Bush’s 2004 visit to Perrysburg
  • Above left, President Bush spoke to a crowd of approximately 12,000 people while at Fort Meigs in 1984. Above right, then Perrysburg Police Chief Rick Gilts with President Bush.
    Above left, President Bush spoke to a crowd of approximately 12,000 people while at Fort Meigs in 1984. Above right, then Perrysburg Police Chief Rick Gilts with President Bush.
  • Remembering President George W. Bush’s 2004 visit to Perrysburg
    Remembering President George W. Bush’s 2004 visit to Perrysburg

    What an event when a president visits your hometown. Even more so when it is a sitting president, which has happened only twice in Perrysburg’s history. President Ronald Reagan visited in 1984 and our subject, George W. Bush 20 years later, some 18 years ago already. But not so long ago that minds and memories can’t still easily recall.

    Although other presidents have visited, it was before or after…