[…] always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He’s 13 obsessed over that decision. And it’s time. Tonight. At the party on the riverbank, under the old walking bridge, site of so many tales of love and death. Paige has had a crush on Theo since they first met, but she knows her feelings are one-sided. She’s trying to […]

[…] s o n’s Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers. Kent State Univ. Press (Kent, OH) 2016. PB $18.95. In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was tasked with finding a suitable site for a Union prison. The following spring, that prison opened on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie. Pickenpaugh uses diary entries and prison records to paint a picture of daily […]

[…] own storytelling. Gianna, Robin. Her Greek Doctor’s Proposal. Harlequin (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada) 2015. PB $5.74. Archaeologist Laurel Evans has come to Delphi to finish her parents’ work at the site where they lost their lives, and won’t let anything stop her. Local doctor and single father Andros Drakoulias avoids romantic entanglements for the sake of his young daughter. When […]

[…] Newark Earthworks and World Heritage. Columbus, OH: Trillium, 2023. This collection of essays and photos honors the cultural and archaeological significance of the Newark Earthworks, Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. fiCtion Bachelder, Chris, and Jennifer Habel. Dayswork. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting […]

[…] Film Festival, which will include a Serling retrospective. This significant date marks the 66th anniversary of when The Twilight Zone premiered in 1959. The new historical marker will become a site on the Ohio Literary Trail, the Ohioana Library’s program that spotlights Ohio authors and their contributions to literature and culture. It’s going to be an eventful year—and beyond!— celebrating […]

[…] for many of the great “finds” in the prehistoric mounds of southern Ohio. One summer I camped with Dr. Mills and his assistants during the exploration of the Baum Village Site, where many treasures now in museums were unearthed. I was also with him dur­ ing the opening of the Adena mound, where he discovered a magnificent effigy pipe, one […]

[…] built and a muddy stream, actually an open sewer, ran down the hillside into and through the heart of the commons. The govern­ ment had been moved to the new site and Congress, a group of 32 in the Senate and 106 in the House, was already sitting and soon to be voting on a ten and one-half million dollar […]

[…] COYLE at a Gala Luncheon, 1 :00 P .M., Saturday, April 28, 1962 at the Green M eadows Country Inn on Route 23, 4 miles north of Worthington, at the site of the WRFD Radio Tower . Ohio’ s newest inn , with all the charm of Early America • 79 Beautiful Rooms. An outstanding program has been arranged – […]

[…] The River By LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON IN THE EARLY FALL of 1788 John Filson disappeared in the Miami woods just north of Cincinnati, or Losantiville, as he had called the site of the future metropolis. If the forty-one year old author of The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784) had survived, he would probably have been the first […]

[…] materials and microfilm can be used. A photographic laboratory is operated as a part of the public service. Books and manuscript holdings have been fully catalogued. Historic Spiegel Grove, the site of the Rutherford B. Hayes Library, was once the camping ground of early Erie and Huron Indian tribes, and across the estate runs a portion of the old Sandusky-Scioto […]