When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

The Castle Historic House Museum stands proudly at 418 Fourth Street in Marietta, a testament to 19th-century opulence and architectural ambition that would make European nobility do a double-take.

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