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Bicentennial Pageant Revisited — Scene 4
Scene 4: Dance card Synopsis: A humorous and romantic scene written by Kay Reimers. It features Marion Ross as the suitor. TWO FEMALE ANTIOCH STUDENTS Miss Thomas and Miss Hamilton enter, holding their dance cards, in deep conversation. MISS HAMILTON … Continue reading
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Bicentennial Pageant Revisited — Scene 3
Previous installments: Prologue/Scene 1 — Scene 2 Cabaret Horace Synopsis 1853 to c. 1921: Antioch College’s first 75 years are marked with great aspirations and numbing fiscal realities. Famed educator Horace Mann is appointed first president. He sets high standards for … Continue reading
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Antioch College Spy Adventures
Sunday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m. in the Senior Center Great Room, the Yellow Springs Historical Society will present a program by Antioch College archivist Scott Sanders on “Reds, Russians and Spies: Cases from the Antioch College Faculty,” the stories … Continue reading
Mark Your Calendar for September 23
Sunday, September 23, at 2:00 p.m. in the Great Room of the Senior Center Antioch College archivist and one of the Yellow Springs Historical Society’s most engaging presenters Scott Sanders will give an illustrated talk on “Architecture by Era: The … Continue reading
Yellow Springs Heritage Finds an Early Protest
Student Banned from Commencement Exercises
Trivia from Glen Forest Cemetery — Sroufe
Another name once influential in Yellow Springs but now almost unknown in the village is the unusual Sroufe name (also spelled Shrofe, Shroufe, Shroupe, to name but a few variations) of Dutch origin. The Sroufe family were very early settlers … Continue reading
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From Yellow Springs Heritage: Goes Station Powder Mill Explosion of 1872
From the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Earlier post on the powder mill
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Trivia from the Glen Forest Cemetery — Barkley
At least one gravesite in Glen Forest Cemetery has a connection to a major American historical event. Sarah & Nathan Barkley – During the CivilWar, Mr. Barkley was captured and heldprisoner until the war ended. When thewar was over, he … Continue reading
Local baseball in 1869
Ohio Memory has a picture from the 1869 Antioch Baseball Club (scroll to second picture), referred to as “one of the finest amateur clubs in Ohio.”
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