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We Were on the Channel 4 News with Ben Gelber!
In the capitol city we have been busy celebrating our 200th anniversary this week. Channel 4 meteorologist Ben Gelber stopped by the Ohio Historical Society on Thursday, February 16 to find out how the weather relates to the founding of … Continue reading
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Can you? Your Thoughts
Last week our curatorial staff posted a photograph of a mystery object in our collection. So far here is what you thought based on Blog and Facebook responses (results are only from our Facebook page and not from any personal … Continue reading
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Manuscript Collections Discussed in Dispatch Article
Two manuscript collections held by the Ohio Historical Society are discussed in this recent article A Lost Art, As Fewer People Take Time to Write Letters, Preservationists Lament Decline of Rich Historical Resource The collections are the papers papers of … Continue reading
Brad Lepper’s Latest Dispatch Column
Find out what is new in Ohio archaeology. Here is a link to Brad Lepper’s most recent commentary in the Sunday edition of the Columbus Dispatch: Technology Offers Peek Into the Past
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What Will We Learn about Serpent Mound in 2012?
Our archaeology curator, Brad Lepper, discusses the potential for using remote sensing to learn more about Serpent Mound in this round up of scientists in the Sunday Columbus Dispatch: New Year Holds Hope for Particles, Planets: Researchers are Eager to … Continue reading
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OHS in the News
Check out this article about the Society’s newest acquisition and upcoming 1950s exhibit in the Dispatch! Prefab Steel Home Gives Peek at 50s Life
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“Sneak Peek” Tours Make a Great Last Minute Gift
Are you looking for any last minute gifts? Reservations for “Sneak Peek” Civil War Collections Tours can be now be placed online. Participants will tour the facility where museum objects are stored or the archives/library stacks with our curators. They … Continue reading
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Collecting the “Final Frontier”
OHS is happy to welcome this lovely signed photograph of Jim Lovell into our photographic collection. So why is OHS interested in a photograph of Jim Lovell? On March 25, 1928, James Arthur Lovell was born to Czech parents in … Continue reading
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Finding Short Bull
Written by guest blogger, Jeff Gill, program assistant at the Newark Earthworks Center. Gerard Baker is a Mandan-Hidatsa Native American, and has served in the National Park Service as Superintendent of the Little Bighorn National Battlefield, and in that same … Continue reading
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OHS In the News
The Columbus Dispatched dropped by to chat with Curators Matthew Benz and Elizabeth Higgins while they encapsulated several newspaper pages for the Pike Heritage Museum. Click here to read the full article.
