Flowers for Marietta, OH

Picture the order that defines a Marietta week: a get-well hand-tied for a patient at Marietta Memorial on Matthew Street, or a birthday bouquet climbing to a porch above Seventh Street, or a graduation arrangement wound up to a residence hall on the Marietta College quad off Fourth and Butler. Those are the routes Twopeasinapod Florist runs, and they trace the shape of the oldest permanent town in the Northwest Territory — a place built into the point where the Muskingum River spills into the Ohio. Front Street and Putnam hold the brick historic district; the Lafayette Hotel keeps watch over The Landing; the Harmar Bridge and the Putnam span carry traffic across the Muskingum to Harmar Village. Everywhere the river dictates the map, from the flat runs out to Devola and Norwood to the hillside blocks that stack up behind downtown.

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