Eighteen women voyaged with their husbands aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Only four were still alive a year later. I doubt any of them decided for themselves if they would go on that dangerous journey or remain behind, not knowing when – or if – they’d ever see their husbands again. We know very little about most of them; some not even their names. Seventeenth-century women had few choices or rights. Most went from the […]
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites
What do Independence Hall, Yosemite National Park, the Statue of Liberty, the San Antonio Missions, and the Ohio Hopewell Earthworks have in common? All are among the twenty-five UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States. The Hopewell Earthworks are the latest addition to the list, being officially designated as a World Heritage Site on September 19, 2023, after 17 years on the tentative site list. Shawnee Chief Glenna Wallace delivered the keynote address at […]
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Rural Ohio, Circa 1900
Somehow, I inherited the position of family archivist. I’ve hauled boxes full of old photographs, slides, diaries, personal papers, and other items around the country for decades. One of the items I treasure is a simple spiral-bound notebook containing my grandmother’s handwritten recollections of her life growing up in rural southern Ohio. Corna Mae Trout was born in Deavertown, Ohio, in 1890, married George R. Ross in 1913, and died in Clermont, Florida in 1987. […]
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The Old Brewster Farmhouse
Some fifty years ago, my grandmother wanted to tour the places where she grew up. She and Grandpa grew up in rural Muskingum and Perry counties in Southeastern Ohio. This grandpa is one of the links in our family’s connection to William and Mary Brewster of Mayflower notoriety. My husband and I drove her around the places significant to her, stopping at the farmhouse pictured here. Grandma told us this house was where her mother-in-law’s […]
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A Christmas Story
When I moved back to Ohio a year ago, I spent a weekend in Cleveland, where I grew up and where “A Christmas Story” was filmed. I made the rounds of places from my childhood in the 50s, including the house where this movie was filmed. In case you’ve somehow managed to never see it, the movie tells the story of nine-year-old Ralphie Parker in the 1940s. He needs to convince his parents, teacher, and […]
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