[…] to plunge into being housewives and househusbands. Where would we have been if Lewis and Clark or Daniel Boone had done the same? How would we have found the Northwest passage or got through to Cali­ fornia? “All the intellectual women in the coun­ try are worried to death about the house­ husband. A househusband is a man who gets […]

[…] evidently looked forward to some exciting development. Fre­ quently he paused to greet some total stranger with cordial familiarity or to wave an enthusiastic greeting to the occupants of a passing carriage. Q Another reader to write to us about “the Immortal J. N.” is Charles E. Robison of Spencerville who culled the following extracts from the files of the […]

[…] twenty years my life was a succession of vicissitudes. I tried various branches of commerce, but they all proved unprofitable, doubtless because my whole mind was ever filled with my passion for rambling and admiring those objects of nature, from which alone I re­ ceived the greatest and purest gratifica­ tion.” In 1809 he had married Lucy Bakewell, daughter in […]

[…] marked the beginning of a new era for the State Library. The Library is charged with greater responsibilities and leadership in the State under a new library law which was passed by Ohio’s General Assembly in 1969. The new law, Senate Bill 262, was developed from a new library master plan, The Ohio Library Development Plan, which in turn was […]

[…] Taylor’s lively discussion of the famous Credit Mobilier scandal left this reviewer with greater reservations about Representative Garfield’s innocence than he previously had. Taylor concluded that even with the ” passing of a century” it is not easy to resolve the conflicting testimony of Garfield and Oakes Ames in this affair. The author concentrates extensively on Garfield’s military career dur­ […]

[…] saga is an apple-seed pressed down to blaze a trail where racoon, bear and beaver etched paw-prints in the virgin clay, the brown hill loam. The wildlings are gone—an era passes, and never deer is locked in startled fright, hooves cleaving fern, pipsissewa, feathered grasses. Only the apples hang, crisplipped and bright along Ohio highways. Ladders twine through slender boughs, […]

[…] of these divi­ sions . . . furthermore there are books in all ten of the Aristotelian cate­ gories, namely substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, possession, action and passion. To paraphrase Prince Metternick who once said, “For me, Mankind begins with barons” … for us the Northwest Territory begms with the treasured books brought by the early settlers […]