[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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  […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 . […]

[…] 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 […]