CORTLAND — Family traditions once thought lost have found new life again.

For Oland Durst, returning to his childhood home in Trumbull County brought an unexpected discovery — one that served as a reminder of the people and places that have shaped his life from the very beginning.

Oland was born and raised in Cortland. His father, Bob, worked at Packard, was a member of the Ali Baba Grotto, and poured his heart into the land. His mother, Dolores, loved to dance and ran an animal kennel on their property.

Their home became the epicenter of their lives, bustling with their daily activities and the hum of tractors through the fields. After Bob’s death in 1986 and Dolores’s death in 2019, Durst returned to his family’s land to fulfill his mother’s final wish: to spread her ashes in the wood

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