The chapel was built because James A. Garfield was banned from speaking in the nearby Congregational Church
If we are to “let freedom ring,” America must suffer its citizens’ voices to ring. Restore and renovate Geauga County’s South Newbury Chapel so that the echo of 19th-century free speech is amplified in the citizen-voices of the 21st century, writes guest columnist Sheldon Firem, a retired Geauga County school psychologist and former history teacher at St. Joe’s High School in Cleveland.
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