Delivered at the 2014 Annual Meeting We’ve come to expect a recital of achievements in this annual report, and I hope to not disappoint. In calendar 2013 the Benninghofen House welcomed over 3,000 visitors for tours, plus a deluge of people during December’s German Village Christmas Walk. Last year the Randall Research Center served nearly
Earlier this year, out of the blue, a gentleman walked into the Butler County Historical Society with two boxes of old photos and letters that he literally rescued from the garbage. They had belonged to his neighbor, an elderly woman who recently passed away, and the man felt like someone ought to be interested in that stuff, so
Colligan History Project This fall, the Michael J. Colligan History Project enters new territory with Public Enemies: Hamilton’s “Little Chicago” Era & Its Consequences, exploring the underworld of John Dillinger and his contemporaries from a time when Hamilton was legendary for its vice and criminality. The series includes: "Business & Ordinary Life in the 1920s and 1930s" with Susan Spellman, Associate
The Butler County Historical Society will also be part of the annual German Village Christmas Walk from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Member Cathy Metcalf will be selling her famous and delicious buckeyes, and local writer Richard O Jones will be manning the bookstore and signing copies of his books, including the five-volume true crime
The 2014 edition of Night at the Museum will be on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Come join your friends for a night of fun and intrigue. Let the super sleuth in you go to work as you solve riddles and use clues to find “hidden meanings” in the Museum’s collection. Prizes are awarded for those
Join local historian, Jim Blount, for "Conversations on Hamilton," 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 14, at the Hamilton Lane Library for "Dixie Highway: Butler County’s First Super Highway." Blount will discuss how boosters depicted it as an “avenue of travel between the winter playgrounds of Florida and the summer resorts of Michigan.” Others called it, “a great highway
Ohio History Connection While the heavy fighting was going on in Gettysburg and in Vicksburg, Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan brought the Southern rebellion to the Midwest with a bold race through Indiana and Southwestern Ohio on July 13, 1863. With a fall season themed ""Hard Road to Liberty: Ohio and the Civil
Do you know a person or group who has made a significant contribution to interpreting local history, preserving our historical heritage, or increasing public historical understanding? If so, the Butler County Historical Society invites you to nominate them for the Distinguished Historian Award. This award will be given at the Annual Meeting and Banquet of
The Second Annual Special Collections Lecture will feature three Freedom Summer participants who will share their stories and discuss the impact of Freedom Summer. "Telling Our Stories: Building the Freedom Summer Legacy" will be presented on Friday, Oct. 10, in Room 320, King Library on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 4 to
The Journal-News is reporting that with construction work already underway, Lane Library officials held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony Monday for the new Oxford branch facility on Locust Street at the site of the former Wal-Mart. Artist rendering of new Oxford Lane Library The new location will not only house the usual Lane Library