Going through my mom’s things after her passing in 2023, I came across a Columbus Dispatch article she’d saved from January 20, 1993. I was in my third year at Ohio State then—about as dialed in to the campus music scene as I’d ever get—and seeing that piece again snapped a whole era back into focus. The article covered ripe! , a Columbus compilation assembled by Abbe Turner , and it reminded me just how much was happening here at the time. Ripe! Thornapple Records – TS 107
