Ohio History Fund Grant Recipients Year 5
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Volume 33 Issue 1 March/April 2017 feature photo and title start here Ohio History Fund Grant WHAT’S INSIDE: Recipients Year 5 2 President’s Message By Andy Verhoff, Coordinator, Ohio History Fund, 3 Ohio History Fund Local History Services, Ohio History Connection Taking a deduction Grant Recipients (con't) without reciepts? That’ll never fly! The Ohio History Connection announced 4 Advocacy at GIVE TO THE at Statehood Day, the recipients of a total of Ohio $74,000 in grants from the Ohio History Fund. Statehood Day History The History Fund is a competitive matching Fund grant program administered by the Ohio History 5 Tablet Tours ON YOUR Connection’s Local History Services depart- State Tax Is your Organization Return. ment. Money for the grants comes from you, who 6 An easy way to support support the program in three ways: by donating a Good Neighbor? your community! Your donation funds local history grants in Ohio. a portion of your state income tax refund to the ohiohistory.org/historyfund Ohio History Fund (the “tax check-off’), by pur- 7 Book Review chasing Ohio History “mastodon” license plates, and by making donations to the Ohio History 8 Announcements Connection for the History Fund. Learn about the Wright brothers at daytonhistory.org and nps.gov/daav Your donation of a part of your Ohio tax 12 Calendar refund this year is vital. The source of most of the money the History Fund grants comes though the tax check-off, and most of that 13 News from is generated during tax season, ending for many with the filing deadline of April 18. the Regions The goal of the Ohio History Fund tax check-off in 2017 is to raise $88,000 – 10% more than last year. That breaks down to 9,800 donations of $9, the amount of the average New and Renewing tax check-off gift. For the price of one lunch, you can support history in Ohio! 14 Since 2013, the History Fund has made 54 grants in 33 counties totaling $522,000. Members Proving there is a strong need for funding for local history and preservation efforts, the History Fund has received 249 grant (continued on page 3) Strategic Plan into our decision-making and tions), Attract New Members, especially from President’s services. Each of the Alliance’s committees: the Young Professionals in Public History and Advocacy, Communications, Education and the Smaller Historical Organizations through Message: brand new Outreach committee, along with the Educational Offerings and Continue to Offer Governance committee are committed to fulfill Educational and Inspiring Annual Conferences text block starts here under “continued from“ banner It is an honor to be serving as president of their goals over the next five years. (Education), Increase OLHA Membership by the Ohio Local History Alliance. My first con- Many of the plan’s objectives deal with 5% each year throughout the Strategic Plan tact with the Alliance was nearly 20 years ago strengthening our relationship with our mem- and Develop New Connections to make OLHA Text box starts here under title block when I attended the 1998 Annual Conference. bers. The following are a few of the objectives more Inclusive and Diverse (Outreach). I’m proud to say I haven’t missed one since. A found in the Strategic Plan: Strengthening Please let us know how we are doing in few years later I was a region representative Membership Benefits and Strengthen Alliances serving you. and have since served in various positions on (Governance), Creating a Year Round Calendar the board. My time on the OLHA board had of Advocacy Activity and Conducting Advoca- Todd McCormick been very rewarding to me professionally and cy Events in Each Region (Advocacy), Educate President, Ohio Local History Alliance personally. Alliance Members on Technology, and Foster Curator/Director, Logan County Historical Society I am excited to be president as the board Communication/Connections between Member (937) 593-7557 incorporates the new 2016-2021 OLHA Organizations & the Alliance, (Communica- [email protected] 2017 Board Members Ohio Local History Alliance President Immediate Past-President Region 4 Region 8 Todd McCormick, Curator/Director Beth Weinhardt, Local History Nancy Newton, Trustee Ed Creighton Logan County Historical Society, Coordinator Canfield Historical Society, Canfield Friends of White Water Shaker Village, Bellefontaine Westerville Public Library, Westerville (330) 533-3458 Hamilton (937) 593-7557 (614) 259-5028 [email protected] (513) 756-1515 [email protected] [email protected] www.canfieldhistory.org [email protected] www.loganhistory.org westervillelibrary.org/local-history Melissa Karman, Director Terrie Puckett 1st Vice President Ex-Officio (Executive The Sutliff Museum, Warren Grailville, Loveland Secretary) (330) 395-6575 (513) 683-2340 Wendy Zucal, Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, Dr. Betsy Hedler, Partnerships www.sutliffmuseum.org www.grailville.org/ Dennison Coordinator, Local History Services (740) 922-6776 Ohio History Connection, Columbus [email protected] (614) 297-2538 Region 5 Region 9 dennisondepot.org [email protected] Christy Davis, Registrar Jessica Cyders, Curator www.ohiohistory.org Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton Southeast Ohio History Center, Athens 2nd Vice President (330) 588-3616 (740) 592-2280 Leann Rich, Manager of Education & [email protected] [email protected] External Relations Region 1 www.ProFootballHOF.com athenshistory.org Mahoning Valley Historical Society Gary Levitt, Director Kelly Kuhn-Engstrom, Director. Megan Malone, Director Youngstown Museum of Postal History, Delphos Curator. Lillian E. Jones Museum, Jackson (330) 743-2589 (419) 303-5482 Sugarcreek Information Center. Alpine (740) 286-2556 [email protected] [email protected] Hills Museum, Sugarcreek [email protected] www.mahoninghistory.org www.postalhistorymuseum.org (330) 852-4113 www.jonesmuseum.com Secretary Richard Witteborg, Curator of [email protected] Exhibits alpinehills.webstarts.com/ Region 10 Ruth Brindle, Director Andrew L. Tuttle Museum, Defiance Quaker Heritage Center Jim Geyer, Director for Museums (419) 784-1907 Region 6 Wilmington College, Wilmington [email protected] Muskingum County History, Zanesville (937) 481-2456 www.cityofdefiance.com/main/index. Leslie Blankenship, Trustee (740) 454-9500 [email protected] php/tuttle-museum-home Franklinton Historical Society, [email protected] www.wilmington.edu/the-wilmington- Columbus www.muskingumhistory.org difference/qhc/ (614) 527-1957 Judy Robinson, Trustee Region 2 [email protected] Treasurer Noble County Historical Society Jessica Maiberger, Local History franklintonhistoricalsociety.org Caldwell Kathleen Fernandez, Historian and Librarian Andrea Brookover, (740) 732-2654 Museum Consultant, North Canton Milan-Berlin Library District, Milan Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] (419) 499-4117 Fairfield Heritage Association, Lan- www.rootsweb.ancestry. [email protected] Trustees-At-Large caster com/~ohnoble/histsoc.htm www.milan-berlin.lib.oh.us (740) 654-9923 Jim Oda, Director Mike Wilson [email protected] Piqua Public Library, Piqua Morrow County Historical Society www.fairfieldheritage.org (937) 773-6753 (567) 231-8709 [email protected] [email protected] Region 7 www.youseemore.com/piqua Kasey Eichensehr, Curator Pat Smith, Director Region 3 Clark County Historical Society Allen County Museum & Historical Timothy Daley, Executive Director Springfield Society, Lima Cuyahoga County Soldiers’ and Sailor’s (937) 324-0657 (419) 222-9426 Monument, Cleveland [email protected] [email protected] (216) 621-3746 www.heritagecenter.us/ www.allencountymuseum.org [email protected] Melissa Shaw, Curator, Collections Kate Smith, Trustee, www.soldiersandsailors.com Management Division Wadsworth Area Historical Society Rebecca Urban National Museum of the United States [email protected] Peninsula Foundation, Peninsula Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB (330) 657-2528 (937) 255-8839 [email protected] [email protected] www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ The Local Historian | March/April 2017 2 History Fund Grant Recipients (continued from page 1) proposals and just under $3 million in 2. Kent State University, Department County Museum. Thoughtful planning text block starts here under “continued from“ banner requests. The totals include this year’s of Anthropology, Kent. will enable the board to develop goals recipients: $2,500 to conduct an archaeological for the revived museum, which a new executive director would be tasked to 1. Dayton Society of Natural History, survey of the Berlin Lake Reservoir. The Text box starts here under title block meet. The project will also begin re-build Dayton survey will provide information necessary to protect an important archaeological support for the museum in the commu- $12,000 to build a changing exhibit space site in Northeast Ohio. Led by an nity and connect the museum’s leadership in the interpretive center at SunWatch academic archaeologist, the project will to resources available from state-wide Village. The project will enable SunWatch also provide field experience and training and national professional organizations. Village to interpret aspects of the Ft. for students. History Fund support will be History Fund support will in part pay for Ancient culture not otherwise exhibited