Tag: history
Museum gives public look at flying history
The Air Heritage Musuem has a room that’s filled with flying memorabilia, photos and paintings, models, uniforms and equipment, bomb sights, instrument panels and other aircraft parts.
Air museum preserves the legacy of pilot, teacher Ernie Hall
Ernie Hall was a leader and teacher of early flight, and this northeast Ohio museum preserves his legacy.
Advice to pioneers: Don’t take on too much
I have a bound volume of The Cultivator, a monthly agricultural paper published in Albany, New York, for the year 1841, almost 175 years...
Museum welcomes home Korean and Vietnam veterans
MAPS Air Museum welcomes home veterans from 1950-1975.
What was making news in America in 1939
October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
New Coke, typesetting and tractors
The year I started at Farm and Dairy — 1985 — Coca-Cola attempted to change its 99-year-old formula to attract younger drinkers.
Anyone remember “New”...
Fry frames history one Ohio farm at a time
Jim Fry, founder of Museum of Western Reserve Farms and Equipment, has spent most of his life preserving cultures. Fry’s museum began more than a decade ago as a largely pragmatic venture.
Salem’s Century House focuses on the future
Few organizations can boast having being in operation through 23 presidents, two economic depressions, and two world wars. Century House of Salem is among those rare places that can.
Historical society names Mahoning Valley historic preservation award winners announced
YOUNGSTOWN — The Historic Preservation Committee of the MVHS board of directors has announced the winners of the 2014 Historic Preservation Awards. These awards...
100 Years and counting: History of the Public Utilities Commission of...
COLUMBUS — This month the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio celebrates a century of assuring all residential and business consumers access to adequate, safe...
