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Media contacts: Kim Schuette: 614.297.2314 or kschuette@ohiohistory.org
For Immediate Release
Ohio Historical Society To Conduct Dunbar House Public Meeting April 7
The Ohio Historical Society (OHS) will conduct a public meeting Tuesday, April 7 to solicit input concerning the future management of Paul Laurence Dunbar House State Memorial by Dayton History. The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at Dunbar House, which is located at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar St., Dayton.
Representatives from the Ohio Historical Society and Dayton History will be on hand to discuss the transition of site operations and to answer questions. In such agreements, daily operations are performed by the local partner while the Society provides support services in the form of marketing-communications, maintenance, curatorial and fund raising. Managed partnered sites typically receive an annual subsidy and keep income from admission, store sales and facility rentals. In the Ohio Historical Society network of 58 historic sites and museums-the largest of any state historical organization in the nation-29 sites are currently operated through local partnership agreements between the Society and a local organization or government entity.
The Dunbar House was the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It exhibits his literary treasures, many of his personal items and his family's furnishings. During his short lifetime Dunbar became known as the poet laureate of African Americans. Drawing on his observations of society and the experience of his parents--both former slaves--he gave voice to the social dilemma of disenfranchised people of his day and became an advocate of black dignity. In 1936, the Dunbar House became the first state memorial to honor an African American. It is also a part of the National Park's Service's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and the Dayton Aviation Heritage Trail.
For more information about the meeting, contact George Kane, OHS director of historic sites and facilities, at 614.297.2441 or at gkane@ohiohistory.org.
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