Event Archives - Ohio History Connection

May 12, 2025

Ohio History Connection Annual Meeting: Midsummer at the Octagon

Join us at the Octagon Earthworks for the best evening of the year—now located at a UNESCO World Heritage Site! We'll start the evening with a discussion between Dr. Ray Hively (whose research on lunar and solar alignments of the Octagon shed light on tribal genius) and Dr. Joe Stahlman (Seneca Nation/University of Buffalo), who […]

May 5, 2025

MEMBER VIP: Get to Know Serpent Mound

Join us as we talk with Bill Kennedy, archaeologist and Serpent Mound site manager, about this amazing earthwork. We'll get an overview of pre-contact American Indians in Ohio and at Serpent Mound.

May 2, 2025

Tree Symposium 2025

Learn about the challenges facing urban forests, how to make maple syrup and more during the second annual Tree Symposium at Spiegel Grove, an arboretum and presidential site. Check in begins at 8 a.m. in the auditorium of the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, located at Spiegel Grove. The registration fees are $40 per person […]

May 2, 2025

Craft Beers, Cocktails & Corks at Spiegel Grove

Ten breweries and three wineries will offer samples and a local mixologist will make 1920s cocktails during the seventh-annual Craft Beers, Cocktails & Corks at Spiegel Grove on Saturday, Aug 23. The event is from 4–8 p.m. on the grounds of the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. The VIP ticketed experience returns for its second […]

April 30, 2025

MEMBER VIP: Get to Know the Ewing and Graham Photography Collections

Join us as we talk with Daniel Willis, audiovisual archivist at the Ohio History Connection, as he talks with us about photography in the early 1900s. He will focus on two photograph collections, the Albert Ewing collection and the Albert Belmont Graham collection. Traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing was born in 1870 in Washington County, […]

April 30, 2025

MEMBER VIP: Get to Know the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks

Did you that Ohio is home to eight wonders of the world? The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage site includes eight separate monumental earthworks that were built by the ancient Indigenous Hopewell culture between about 1 and 400 CE. The sites include the Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks in Newark, the Fort Ancient Earthworks […]

April 30, 2025

MEMBER VIP: Get to Know the Library & Archives

Ever wondered what's available in the Ohio History Connection Library & Archives? Join Elizabeth Zeitz, library services manager, for an overview of this great resource, including details about the various collections, information about how to visit the library, what to expect when you do and more!

April 30, 2025

Peanut Butter & Jam Kids Concert

Enjoy an interactive live music program designed to get kiddos up to age 6 and their grownups moving! Presented by Linton Chamber Music.

April 30, 2025

Semi Colon Club: “A Plausible Man” with Susanna Ashton

Just months after Harriet Beecher Stowe moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Brunswick, Maine, freedom seeker John Andrew Jackson knocked on her door and was welcomed. Learn about Susanna Ashton's deep research into Jackson's life and how this encounter impacted Stowe's writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

April 30, 2025

Semi Colon Club: “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared Future”

Join a discussion of Robert P. Jones's urgent and essential look at the foundations and future of our nation. Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy is “full of urgency and […]