Experience Idora Park anew at Canfield museum Saturday, next Sunday

Staff report

CANFIELD

From a single light socket to a building full of Idora Park artifacts, Jim and Toni Amey are following their dreams in retirement to share their beloved collectibles with the community, bringing people together.

“You have people who come here and talk about a certain piece and then others will overhear, find out they lived near each other and end up with two women in their 80s crying,” Jim said. “It’s really something.”

Idora Park holds a special place in Jim’s heart – he worked there in 1976, leaving for the military that same year.

Jim said coming back from living in Virginia 17 years later was a harsh reality.

“I knew it was gone, but it reality hit me when we walked through there,” he said.

Toni said Jim was just heartbroken to see the few remnants of his childhood.

The Idora Park Experience Museum, 4450 S. Turner Road, Canfield, will open for the fifth time from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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