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March 10 Louisville and Hamilton

Ohio Local History Alliance c/o Ohio History Connection Local History Services 800 East 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2474 1.800.576.0381 or 614.297.2538 ph: fx: 614.297.2567 localhistory @ohiohistory.org / www.ohiolha.org March 17 Bremen and Athens March 24 Tipp City and Marietta April 7 Maumee and Lorain April 14 Bellevue and Canfield The cost is $40. If you have Join us for Statehood Day The annual Statehood Day advocacy event will be held at the on Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Attendees are encouraged to schedule meetings with their local state legislators between 10:15 and noon. This year’s event will feature lunchtime remarks by Christopher Wilson from the Smithsonian who serves as the director of the African American History program at the National Museum of American History. Several local elected officials from Licking County will be awarded the Ohio History Leadership Award and the 2018 History Fund grant awards will be presented. How do I sign up? canYou register for the event through February 20 online at www.ohiohistory.org/ statehoodday. [email protected] questions, please e-mail Todd Kleismit at Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Northwest North Central Northeast Northeast Saturday, April 7 Saturday, April 14 Saturday, April 7 Saturday, April 14 Maumee Bellevue Lorain Canfield Register by Friday, March 30 Register by Friday, April 6 Register by Friday, March 30 Register by Friday, April 6 For organizations in Allen, Defiance, For organizations in Ashland, For organizations in Cuyahoga, For organizations in Ashtabula, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Lucas, Crawford, Erie, Huron, Marion, Lake, Lorain, Medina, and Summit Geauga, Mahoning, Portage, and Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, Williams, Morrow, Ottawa, Richland, Sandusky, Counties. Trumbull Counties. and Wood Counties. Seneca, and Wyandot Counties. Host: Lorain Historical Society Host: Canfield Heritage Foundation Host: Fallen Timbers Battlefield Host: Historic Lyme Village Meet at: Lorain (City) Historical Meet at: Loghurst Museum, 3967 Preservation Commission Meet at: Historic Lyme Village, 5001 Society, Carnegie Center, 329 W 10th Boardman-Canfield Rd, Canfield, OH, Meet at: Fallen Timbers Battlefield State Rt. 4, Bellevue, OH 44811 St, Lorain, OH 44052 44406 Visitor’s Center, 4949 Jerome Rd., Note: Registration in the Visitor’s Note: Parking (approximately 35 9:00 REGISTRATION Maumee, OH 43537 Center. Meeting will be held in various spaces) is available in the Carnegie 9:30 WELCOME 9:00 REGISTRATION buildings at Historic Lyme Village. Center lot. If the lot is full, additional During the meeting, attendees will parking is available in a lot on W 9:45 SESSION 9:30 WELCOME walk between the barn, the Wright 11th street. To access this additional How to Write a Good Grant 9:45 SESSION Mansion, and the church. All buildings parking, from the Carnegie Center lot, with Andy Verhoff, Ohio History Attracting Younger Volunteers are accessible, and are connected by turn right on W 10th St., right on Reid Connection and Board Members with Taylor concrete paths. Ave, and right on W 11th St. 11:00 SESSION Moyer, Board Member, Fallen Timbers 9:00 REGISTRATION 9:00 REGISTRATION Battlefield Preservation Commission But Where Do I Get the Matching and the Henry County Historical 9:30 WELCOME 9:30 WELCOME Funds? Donations for Capital Projects with Bill Lawson, Executive Society 9:45 PANEL 9:45 Region 2 Business Director, and Linda Kostka, Meeting & Ohio History 10:45 SHARING TIME Outreach on a Shoestring: Social Development Director, Mahoning Connection Local History Media Strategies with Sara Fisher, Valley Historical Society 11:45 LUNCH Services Report Ohio History Service Corps, Mary 12:30 Region 1 Business 10:15 SESSION Manning, Western Reserve Historical 12:00 SHARING TIME Meeting & Ohio History Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story Society, and Sammy Kay Smith, 12:30 LUNCH Connection Local History of a Tuskegee Airman with Lt. Spring Hill Historic Home Services Report 1:00 Region 4 Business Col. Harold H. Brown and Marsha 11:00 SHARING TIME Meeting & Ohio History 1:15 SESSION Bordner Brow. Book Signing with Lt. 11:45 COLLABORATIVE SESSION Connection Local History Imagining and Re-Imagining Col. Brown to follow. Services Report Your Museum with Anna Kolin, Solve Our Situation: Working 11:30 SHARING TIME 1:45 SESSION Development Director, National on Solutions facilitated by Museum of the Great Lakes 12:30 LUNCH Greg Palumbo, OLHA Region Digitization How-To with Suzie 3 Representative; and Lakewood McCabe, Canfield Historical Society, 1:15 CONCURRENT TOURS 2:15 SESSION Historical Society and Helen Conger, Archivist, Case Dos and Don’ts of Historic Tour of the Wright Mansion or Historic Western Reserve University 12:30 LUNCH Archaeology at Your Site with Lyme Village 3:15 TOUR Melissa Baltus, Assistant Professor 2:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:15 Region 3 Business Meeting & Ohio History Tour of the Loghurst Museum. of Anthropology/Archaeology, SESSION: Advertising Your Connection Local History Meeting ends at the conclusion of the University of Toledo Site: Hints and Tips, with Bryan Services Report tour, no later than 4:00 p.m. 3:00 TOUR Edwards, Marketing Director, Lake 2:00 SESSION Tour of the Fallen Timbers Erie Shores and Islands Where do you see yourself in five Battlefield. Please Note: The SESSION: Safety and Security at years? Planning for Success with Battlefield walking tour is approx- Historic Sites, with Tim Jonovich, Leianne Neff Heppner, Summit imately 1.5 miles on a gravel path. Director, Erie County Emergency County Historical Society and Mary Please wear comfortable walking Management Team Beth Rauzi, Cleveland Grays Armory shoes. The tour will take place if the Meeting ends at the conclusion of Museum weather permits, and there will be a these sessions, no later than 4:00 p.m. much shorter hike to the ravine and 3:15 TOUR back for those who do not wish to Tour the Carnegie Center and the walk the entire route. Meeting ends Moore House Museum. Meeting at the conclusion of the tour, no later ends at the conclusion of the tour, no than 4:00 p.m. later than 4:00 p.m. Region 5 Region 6 Region 7 Region 8 East Central West Central Southwest Saturday, March 10 Saturday, March 17 Saturday, March 24 Saturday, March 10 Louisville Bremen Tipp City Hamilton Register by Friday, March 2 Register by Friday, March 9 Register by Friday, March 16 Register by Friday, March 2 For organizations in Carroll, For organizations in Delaware, For organizations in Auglaize, For organizations in Adams, Brown, Columbiana, Harrison, Holmes, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Knox, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Licking, Madison, Perry, Pickaway, and Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Highland, and Warren Counties. Wayne Counties. Union Counties. Preble, & Shelby Counties. Host: Friends of White Water Shaker Host: Louisville-Nimishillen Historical Host: Bremen Area Historical Society Host: Tippecanoe Historical Society Village Society Meet at: Bremen Area Historical Meet at: Zion Lutheran Church, 14 Meet at: Fernald Preserve Visitor’s Meet at: Paradise United Church of Society, 161 Carter St., Bremen, OH West Walnut St., Tipp City, OH 45371 Center, 7400 Willey Rd, Hamilton, OH Christ, 619 East Main Street, Louisville, 43107 45013 9:00 REGISTRATION Ohio 44641 Note: The Visitor’s Center building is 9:00 REGISTRATION 9:30 WELCOME 9:00 REGISTRATION located approximately 1 mile from the 9:30 WELCOME 9:45 SOLVE OUR SITUATION entrance to the preserve. As you arrive, 9:30 WELCOME 9:45 SESSION Take one minute to share a current please park in the further parking lot, 9:45 PANEL From a Room Filled with Stuff to challenge with the group—then, if possible, so as to leave the closer Youth Involvement in Historic Sites Collections Storage with Liz Baker, network throughout the day to find and parking lot for others coming to the with Betty and Ron Derry, Louisville Museum Committee Chair, Bremen offer solutions. Visitor’s Center and those attending the Nimishillen Historical Society, Kathy Area Historical Society. meeting who have mobility issues. Fernandez, North Canton Heritage 10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9:00 REGISTRATION Society (retired), and Jacob Masters, 11:30 SHARING TIME Panel. Don’t Reinvent the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum 12:15 LUNCH Wheel: Finding and Adapting 9:30 WELCOME Programming for Your Site with 9:45 SESSION 11:15 SHARING TIME 12:45 Region 6 Business Meeting Natalie Fritz, Clark County Historical 12:15 LUNCH & Ohio History Connection Society and Robin Heise, Greene Leveraging Community Local History Services County Records Center and Archives Conversations into Funding/ 1:00 Region 5 Business Meeting Report Sponsorship/Partnerships with & Ohio History Connection Session. Archives 101 with Collette 1:45 SESSION Casondra R. Cooper, Executive Local History Services McDonough, Kettering Foundation Director of Development, Cincinnati Report Heritage Tourism: Examples from Little Cities of the Black 11:30 SHARING TIME State Technical and Community College 1:30 SESSION Diamonds with John Winnenberg, 12:30 LUNCH 11:15 SHARING TIME Exhibit Case Nuts and Bolts with Cheryl Blosser, Little Cities of the Strategies for Turning Members Christy Davis, Registrar, Pro Football 12:45 Region 7 Business Meeting Black Diamonds Council, and Daniel into Volunteers and Volunteers Hall of Fame Clepper, Ohio Stream Restore Corps & Ohio History Connection Local History Services into Board Members, moderated by 2:45 SESSION 3:00 TOUR Report Ruth Brindle, Main Street Wilmington Top Ten Social Media Tips with Tour of the Bremen Area Township 1:40 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 12:15 LUNCH Sammy Kay Smith, Director, Spring Historical Society. Meeting ends at Roundtable. Getting People to Hill Historic Home the conclusion of the tour, no later than 1:00 Region 8 Business Meeting Care about History and Your & Ohio History Connection 4:00 p.m. 3:15 TOUR Museum, moderated by Greg Local History Services Tour of Louisville-Nimishillen Meyers, Cridersville Historical Society; Report Panelists Robin Heise, Yellow Springs Historical Society Museum and 1:45 SESSION Arts & History Gallery. Meeting ends Heritage, and Tilda Phlipot, Shelby Petticoats, Top Hats and Gowns: at the conclusion of the tour, no later County Historical Society Textiles and Costume in Historical than 4:00 p.m. Panel. Saying No: Deciding What Society Collections with Dr. Sara to Take for Your Collection & What Butler, Professor Emerita, Miami Do You Do with the Things You University Don’t Want with Melissa Shaw, Nat. Museum of the U.S. Air Force; Gordon 3:00 TOUR Pittinger, Tippecanoe Historical Tour of White Water Shaker Village. Society; Regina Kleinhenz, Trotwood- Meeting ends at the conclusion of the Madison Historical Society tour, no later than 4:00 p.m. Tour of Tippecanoe Historical Society and Tipp City Historic District. Meeting ends at the conclusion of the tour, no later than 4:00 p.m. Register Today Register online with a credit card at www.ohiolha.org/alliance-regional-meetings Register by mail with a check by competing this form for each registrant. Make check payable to: Ohio Local History Alliance. Please register no later than the Friday the week prior to your meeting date.

Name Home Address City, State ZIP Region 9 Region 10 Phone E-mail Southeast Southeast Organization Saturday, March 17 Saturday, March 24 Athens Marietta Check the meeting(s) you will attend: Register by Friday, March 9 Register by Friday, March 16 ____ Region 1 ____ Region 2 ____ Region 3 ____ Region 4 For organizations in Athens, Gallia, For organizations in Belmont, ____ Region 5 ____ Region 6 ____ Region 7 ____ Region 8 Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton Counties. Morgan, , Noble, and ____ Region 9 ____ Region 10 Host: Southeast Washington counties. Meet at: Southeast Ohio History Host: The Castle Historic House Museum Registration fee includes lunch. Please indicate if special needs. Center, 24 West State St., Athens, OH Vegetarian meal: ______Gluten Free Meal: ______45701 Meet at: The Castle Historic House Note: The History Center’s parking Museum, 418 4th St., Marietta 45750 Handicapped Accessible parking space required: ______lot is located behind the building on Note: Parking is available on 4th Street Alliance Member Registration Fee: $30 Congress Street. Our main entrance in front of the museum. As a historic $30 x # Meetings ____ x # Registrants = $ ______and our elevator entrance are also on house, The Castle has fourteen steps Non-Member Registration Fee: $35 Congress Street. Participants may also from street side parking to the front $35 x # Meetings ____ x # Registrants = $ ______find additional metered parking on of the house. Limited handicapped Congress and West State Streets. Do parking is available via the alley (High not park in the parking lot to the right School Lane) between 4th and 5th JOIN THE OHIO LOCAL HISTORY ALLIANCE NOW AND SAVE! of the Center on State Street, which Streets. Those who cannot manage the Organizational Membership belongs to Ameriprise Financial. front steps may be dropped off behind ______Operating budget under $25,000 a year: the museum while the car is parked on $35 ($65 for two years) 9:00 REGISTRATION 4th St. 9:30 WELCOME ______Operating budget under $25,000-$100,000 a year: 9:00 REGISTRATION $60 ($110 for two years) 9:45 SESSION 9:30 WELCOME Digitizing on a Budget? Yes You ______Operating budget under $100,000-$200,000 a year: Can! with Nancy Tatarek, New 9:45 SESSION $75 ($140 for two years) Straitsville History Group, and Cyrus Nonprofit Boards: An Overview ______Operating budget over $200,000 a year: Moore, Ohio History Service Corps of Best Practices with Amy Elliott, $100 ($190 for two years) Nonprofits LEAD Program Director, Individual Membership 11:15 SHARING TIME Marietta College 12:00 LUNCH ______Affiliate: $35 ($65 for two years) 11:15 SHARING TIME Members of organizations that are OLHA members 12:45 Alliance Region 9 Business Meeting & Ohio History 12:00 MINI-SESSION ______Individual: $50 ($90 for two years) Connection Local History Partnerships from the Partners For those not affiliated with an OLHA member organization Services Report Perspective with Dagmar Kupsche, ______Student: $20 (Include copy of current student ID) The Cook’s Shop 1:15 TOUR and DISCUSSION Tour the Southeast Ohio History 12:15 LUNCH Joining the Ohio Local History Alliance $______Center and discussion on the 1:00 Alliance Region 10 Adaptive Reuse of Buildings Business Meeting & Ohio FREE Organizational Table (approx. 6 feet wide) 2:45 SESSION History Connection Local History Services Report ____ Half display table OR ____ Full display table Hands-On Archival Methods with Even if your organization doesn’t reserve display space, one table will be set aside at the Ohio Preservation Council, with 1:45 SESSION each meeting for brochures—so bring a stack with you! Miriam Nelson, Head of Preservation Integrating the Archaeological & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University. Component at Your Site with TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $______Meeting ends at the conclusion of the Wesley Clarke, Registered session, no later than 4:00 p.m. Professional Archaeologist, The Castle ____ Check enclosed (Make payable to Ohio Local History Alliance) Historic House Museum

3:00 CONCURRENT TOURS Mail form to: Ohio Local History Alliance Tour of The Castle Historic House c/o Ohio History Connection Museum or Historic Architecture 800 East 17th Avenue Tour of Marietta. Meeting ends at the Columbus, OH 43211-2497 conclusion of the tours, no later than Register Online: www.ohiolha.org/alliance-regional-meetings 4:00 p.m. Questions? 614-297-2538 [email protected]