words and photo by Aaron Ellringer |  In the warming early spring days of 2010, our family liked to spend time outside, enjoying the crisp air and sunshine. It wasn’t time for tapping the maples …

“My family grew up on the Easthill and I have always loved the structure of homes I rode by on my bike and went trick or treating to on Halloween. But it wasn’t until I was helping my ‘then future husband” purchase a home that I noticed how similar many of the Easthill homes look. In fact, you could say some looked exactly the same? So I went sleuthing…”

by Kristen Gundry
Since I have moved to the Eastside Hill a few years ago, I am in awe at the number of elephant stories floating around. I have heard rumors that somewhere on the Eastside …

The rushing of the river… the hum of Uniroyal, kids laughing and playing in Boyd park, and the train whistling in the distance … these are the sounds I hear when I close my eyes on the East Hill. These sounds bring back many memories of my childhood. My family has been on the East hill since 1930. My great grandfather bought a home on East Grand Avenue that my grandmother, uncle, and mother grew up in …