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Town Limits

By By Shaun Assael

Monday, May 12, 2003

A white clapboard church sits next to the untended farm that Sam Hornish Jr. owns in Defiance, Ohio. Just inside, a photo of his great-aunt Ina hangs in the vestibule. Her grandfather John Hornish II donated the land to the church 150 years ago. The original Poplar Ridge Church of Brethren isn't around any longer. Neither is Aunt Ina. But the new church, built in 1998, is filled every Sunday with her descendants. This story appears in the latest edition of ESPN The Magazine, on newst ...

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