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     ...Splashes of delicate pinks and white were everywhere as I drove into my old hometown.  Early May is Cherry Blossom Festival time and it was barely a week away for the Magic city's annual celebration of springtime beauty.  All around the center of Barberton ruffly blossoms exploding on all the trees signaled that spring had indeed arrived in  the Magic City.  Lake Anna looked like a scene from nearly a century ago with it's decorative blossoming trees reminding one of the lacy ruffles of cotillion gowns from the 1920's.  The song's refrain of "Cherry pink and apple blossom white..." crept through my thoughts as I took in natures beautiful offering to Barberton.  Church bells chimed old favorite hymns helping to transport me back to simpler times.  This was the Barberton I had always remembered.  In another time ladies in long skirts and carrying parasols accompanied by gents with Sunday-go-to-meeting attire strolled around Barberton and Lake Anna for r