Three unrelated things happened in the same few days, and all three are about finishing something that took a long time. A city closed a gap in a path. A 91-year-old finished a walk he started 359 days earlier. And a small Oregon town marked a hundred years since the most expensive shot of the silent era.
Four patches came out of it โ one from Cleveland, one from Maine, two from Cottage Grove.
Cleveland closes the lakefront gap
A 2.7-mile paved path opened this week along North Marginal Road, linking downtown at East 9th to the East 55th Street Marina at Gordon Park. It closes the missing link that has kept the lakefront in two pieces, and it took two years of building to do it.
What it means in practice: you can now ride or walk from downtown out to the East Side parks without stopping, for the first time. Cleveland has been promising its lakefront back for decades. This is a real piece of it.
The patch is a bicycle in honey oak, die-cut to the frame โ no border, no lettering, nothing but the bike. It sits on the Cleveland Lakefront Trail Trucker Hat.
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Katahdin, at 91
On August 31 a 91-year-old hiker reached the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine and became the oldest person ever to walk the full 2,190-mile route north. It took 359 days.
He fell 71 times. One of those falls was roughly 600 feet from the summit, which is the sort of detail that turns a statistic back into a person. He had held this record once already, at 82, and went back out to take it again.
The Katahdin Summit Trucker Hat carries the ridgeline he finished on, cut from brushed nickel to its own outline.
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Cottage Grove, 1926 and 2026
A hundred years ago this summer, a film crew near Culp Creek, Oregon ran a real locomotive off a burning timber trestle in front of 4,000 spectators. One take, no second chance, and for a long time the most expensive shot anyone had put on film.
Cottage Grove marked the centennial this year with location tours, a costume party and a screening. The crest version puts the engine, the trestle and both dates inside a shield in matte black carbon-fiber weave โ the Cottage Grove Trestle Trucker Hat.
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The second version strips it back to the engine alone. No crest, no dates, no lettering โ a steam locomotive die-cut to its own silhouette in brushed aluminum.
If the crest is the anniversary, this one is just the machine. It is the Cottage Grove Locomotive Trucker Hat.
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The four
All four are made in Avon Lake, Ohio, on Richardson 112 caps in five colorways, plus a ponytail-opening Infinity Charlie in Dusty Rose: Cleveland Lakefront Trail Trucker Hat, Katahdin Summit Trucker Hat, Cottage Grove Trestle Trucker Hat and Cottage Grove Locomotive Trucker Hat.
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