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How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

How one Ohioan's furniture made it to the Met

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached out to Ernest Hershberger with an opportunity to collaborate, the Amish furniture maker was stunned.

“You know, I knew about them,” Hershberger said. “But I did say, ‘Well, who's the Met?’ And I still get made fun of for that.”

Decades after he died, a Pearl Harbor sailor comes home

Most of the people at Stanley Galaszewski’s burial ceremony never knew him.

He died more than 80 years ago.

Still, the crowd on the crisp November afternoon swelled with extended family, leather-jacketed Patriot Guard Riders, a group of quiet school children.

Together, they bowed their heads in prayer to honor the fallen World War II sailor.

How a settlement with chemical companies could help southeast Ohio fight ‘forever chemicals'

Dupont Chemicals, and two other chemical companies, reached a settlement with the state of Ohio last week.

One Ohio Appalachian community is turning its pollution into paint

The water running through Sunday Creek rambles without a hint of wildlife. There are no fish darting or crayfish to ensnare. Still, it catches the eye. The stream is a deep orange color.

Michelle Shively MacIver, of the local nonprofit Rural Action, pointed to the sludge-filled stream.