[…] northernmost representa tives of a group of seven related tribes which are best known for the carving of totem poles. This distinction is rather unfair because these people were exqui site wood carvers, their talent being revealed in all of their artifacts, and not just to tem poles. At various times when it serves the history of the culture, the […]
OQ Winter 1969
[…] photographer Bruce Goldflies and I have fun putting the book together, but I also learned- as a bonus- how to pronounce Gnadenhutten. Many of the places Bruce and I vi sited in Ohio we shall probably have no reason, save for sentiment, to visit again. No matter. I’m thinking of some good-size towns as well as lonely back roads that […]
OQ Fall 1971
[…] smce 1t was written, nevertheless its influence on Alice’s career was profound. Eastern publishers and literary figures began to notice her and her younger sister. In 1849 they were vi sited by Horace Greeley, who went away impressed by the remarkable young women who had produced such work in a setting that he found “lonesome and obscure.” The next year […]
OQ Spring 1971
[…] in new world archaeology and human ecology. Together they have compiled an out standing volume, handsome in format, on the excavations in 1966 and 1968 at the prehistoric Blain Village site in Southern Ohio. Their findings indicate that the Fort Ancient Tradition began earlier than ca. 900 A.D. The Blain Indians built a settlement consisting of a central mound and […]
OQ Winter 2017
[…] Maginn, Keith. (Extra)Ordinary: Inspirational Stories of Everyday People. KiCab Projects (Georgetown, OH) 2016. PB $9.95. When Keith Morgan began to learn bore about the peopley in his life, he discovered that seebingly ordinary people often had extraordinary experiences to share. These stories will help open readers’ eyes to the extraordinary people all ayround theb. Mangus, Michael. Ohio: A bilitary History. Westholbe Publishingy (Yardley, PA) 2016. HC $35.00. Historian Mangus traces Ohio’s bilitary history frob prehistoric tibes through the present. Content includes a cobprehensive record of conflict within ythe state, bilitary personalities frob Tecubseh to Eddie Rickenbacker, and civilian eforts frob recruitbent drives to BOOK LIST | NONFICTION 2b| Ohioana Quarterly 25 Winter 2017 | BOOK LIST | NONFICTION anti-war protests. Includes a list oyf historic sites and suggested further reading. Martin, Sieglinde. Small Feet on the Run: Childhood During World War II Remembered and Arguments against War. Resource Publications/Wipf and Stock Publishers (Eugene, OR) 2016. PB $25.00. This book docubents the true stories of eighteen ordinary children who survived WWII Europe, where twenty-nine billion civilyians died. The children describe feeling fear and worry for fabily bebbers at hobe and on the byattlefield, collecting bobb shrapnel instead of baseball cards, scavenging for food, and experiencing the kinydness of strangers and even eneby soldiers. Mezurek, Kelly D. For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops. The Kent State Univ. Press (Kent, OH) 2016. HC $37.95. The 27th United States Colored Troops, cobposed bostly of free black Ohio ben, served in the Union Arby frob April 1864 to Septebber 1865, where they faced […]
OQ Summer 2020
[…] the listing name for a link to details. 16 Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Historical Marker. Photo credit: Ohio History Connection. | Ohioana Quarterly 19 Of the more than sixty sites featured on the Ohio Literary Trail, the newest can be found at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. It’s the Jennifer Fisher/ Nancy Drew Collection, a fantastic treasure trove […]
December 2021 Newsletter
[…] keep everyone safe by connecting readers and writers virtually. The Ohioana Book Festival and Ohioana Book Awards both celebrated significant anniversaries. The Ohio Literary Trail expanded, and one of the sites added was in tribute to one of Ohio’s most beloved authors. It was another busy and productive year, as you’ll see from the highlights below. Winter• Ohioana “went to […]
May 2017 Newsletter
[…] 8:00 p.m., PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland, Ohio The inaugural street book fair kicks off with “Read Ohio,” a discussion featuring children’s authors Tricia Springstubb and Jennifer Maschari. For more information, visit www.csuohio.edu/ sites/default/files/AHA-Book-Festival-Schedule-041317.pdf . Thurber House Summer Literary Picnics June 7 – August 16, 2017, Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio The thirty-second summer season kicks off Wednesday, June 7, at 5:30 p.m. with […]
Directory of Sermons
[…] Place: Columbus, OH – Date: 1956 – Number of items: one – Size/pages: 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 32 pp F06 . Jerome D. Folkman – Fores ight for a Site Presentation of the Deed – Temple Israel Place: Columbus, OH – Date: 1955 – Number of items: one – Size/pages: 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 12 pp F07 . […]
OQ Winter 2019
[…] Becquets (Breaking Wild), Cathy Guisewite (creator of the Cathy comic strip), Helen Ellis (American Housewife), Shawn Levy (Rat Pack Confidential), and several writers from the Belladonna comedy and satire web site. Kenney and Hinds are part of Thurber@125: A Year of Thurber events. Hinds’ event will include excerpts from Thurber’s “The Day the Dam Broke,” a lighthearted take on the […]