Our town kicks off the fall holidays with a celebration called Jingle Bell Weekend. Craft shows, mini concerts, social gatherings and a parade in downtown are hallmarks of this outpouring of community spirit and good cheer. In recent years there has been a walking Lantern Tour of the historic neighborhoods of Waverly, Ohio. [...]
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One of the many viral emails consuming bandwidth these days is an erroneous little diatribe that claims that the new presidential dollar coins have omitted our nation’s motto, the words “In God We Trust”. The email includes the normal pablum of fake outrage, inaccurate facts, and a call to boycott.
It is likely that you [...]
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Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society
“I Wish Mark Was Here”: The Political Partnership of Mark Hanna and William McKinley- by Roy Morris Jr.
I must admit that I really didn’t know much about President McKinley; and nothing at all about his political supporters. I did know that in the early years of our [...]
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{the political lamp is lit}
I searched around for a complete version of this quote.
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with [...]
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The Shawnee Prophet by R. David Edmunds
I live on a plateau above the Scioto River floodplain between Chillicothe and Waverly, Ohio. The first year I tilled my garden I found a native american quartz spear point. Over the years I have found several stone arrowheads. The Shawnee tribe local to this area, [...]
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Timeline is a quarterly publication of the Ohio Historical Society. My annual membership pays for this fine journal. One reason I am reviewing it is because it is for sale to the general public, although at $12 an issue the price is steep. It is a very high quality magazine and perhaps [...]
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I am a unashamed history nut. Nearly all of my nonfiction books cover history or historical topics. For some reason it took a father’s day gift to get me to join the most prominent history based organization in the state of Ohio. I am very glad for the gift.
Yet, I still haven’t [...]
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