Today, George Street in Cincinnati doesn’t seem very notable. It is only a block long, and other than some brick walls, you won’t see much. The only real exception being a few trees and benches at the rear entrance of the Cincinnati Bell building. I would bet that most people who live in Cincinnati probably […]
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Places
Sometimes, while doing research for one article, I’ll run across something that isn’t exactly related to what I was looking into. History doesn’t happen in isolation, after all. I’ll write down some notes and come back to it later. On rare occasions, this leads me down one interesting rabbit hole after another, to the point where I have tottally forgotten the original reason I wrote the note
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
Sometimes, the simplest cases can turn out to be the most complex. The basic facts are surprisingly simple. On the evening of August 11, 2008, 24-year-old Sarah Widmer drew herself a bath in the suburban Cincinnati house she shared with her husband, Ryan. A short time later, he would make a 9-1-1 call, telling them “My wife fell asleep in the
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True Crime
The date was February 8, 1844. The time was 1:30 in the afternoon. Location: the grounds of The Columbus Penitentiary. The event: Thousands of people filled the hill to witness the execution of two criminals because what else was there to do on a chilly afternoon in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first condemned was William Graham Young (or William Clark) who
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History, People