Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Matthew Donahue! This presentation highlights the history of rock and roll and popular music from the crossover of blues and country music in the 1950s leading to rock and roll through the many genres since the early rhythm and blues, rockabilly scene to contemporary music styles ... Read More
Book Lovers Unite! It's back for year two and the 2024 Columbus Book Festival will feature a whole new lineup of 200+ national and Columbus-based authors, panel discussions author talks, book signings and more! The Festival Marketplace will brim with dozens of bookish retailers, community exhibitors, an entertainment lineup, local food court and the popular Indie Author Alley pavilion and Friends of ... Read More
The Ashland Chautauqua Committee is excited for their special 2024 Silver Celebration with the theme "A Trip Down Memory Lane." Join them for this year's special anniversary events, July 16-24, 2024, featuring: For more details, see the schedule or go to their Facebook page. In the tradition of the American Chautauqua, the Ashland, Ohio Chautauqua allows audiences to witness history in its most ... Read More
Freedom a la Carte is excited to share they are partnering with friends at We Amplify Voices (WAV) for this year’s Open Mic Nights! The next Open Mic Night will be on July 19 at WAV’s building: 1327 Sullivant Ave. Doors open at 5:30pm and the event starts at 6pm and should conclude around 7:30pm. Come share your voice through poetry, song, ... Read More
Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the Ohio in the Civil War! With troops, generals, factories and farms, Ohio and Ohioans helped to change the outcome of the Civil War. And that war changed Ohio and its people. We’ll explore those changes and take a look at the contributions of ... Read More
Come visit the Adena Mansion and Gardens for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Tom O'Grady! Beginning in 1825, Ohio began constructing its canal system that eventually included nearly a thousand miles of channel and towpaths laced with stone locks and culverts, aqueducts, feeder lakes and slack water ponds. These canals opened up Ohio to world commerce allowing the ... Read More
Come visit the McKinley Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Brad Lepper about the Newark Earthworks! The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1- 400, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles, using more than ... Read More
Inspired by this year's History Center Exhibit titled From Architecture to Beauty, The Dawes Arboretum will be hosting a four-part virtual series featuring Ohio historic landscapes and gardens, their designers, American landscape movements and historic land restorations. In addition to The Dawes Arboretum, this series will feature presentations from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Adena Mansion & Gardens, and Kingwood ... Read More
Come visit the Prevention Action Alliance in Columbus for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Daniel Skinner! While the opioid crisis has swept across the entire United States, leaving no community untouched, it has hit Ohio particularly hard. But why Ohio, in particular? Drawing on his experience in compiling a collection of more than 50 perspectives from across Ohio, ... Read More
Freedom a la Carte is excited to share they are partnering with friends at We Amplify Voices (WAV) for this year’s Open Mic Nights! The next Open Mic Night will be on July 19 at WAV’s building: 1327 Sullivant Ave. Doors open at 5:30pm and the event starts at 6pm and should conclude around 7:30pm. Come share your voice through poetry, song, ... Read More
Invisible Ground will host a full tour of all eight of their Ground Immersive Historic Markers on Saturday, August 17th. Athens-based multimedia project Invisible Ground utilizes audio, augmented reality, visual elements, and place-based storytelling to engage people in the history of their communities. The project does this through its series of Immersive Historic Markers around Athens County, a documentary public ... Read More
Come visit Elizabeth's Bookshop and Writing Centre for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with LuSter Singleton! LuSter will discuss the intersections and departures of both the gay and Civil Rights Movement. In the early 2000s, LuSter disclosed their long-time struggle with finding a place of belonging within the so-called “gay movement” and the civil rights movement. With both having ... Read More
