Category: Event

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November 4, 2024

Spring Homeschool Day

During Homeschool Day, students learn how the Zoar Separatists prepared for spring through hands-on activities including a bread relay, butter churning, planting seeds and tin smithing. Visit the Blacksmith, the Dairy, the Laundry and many other buildings to learn more about Zoar’s fascinating history. Tickets are $8 per student, $8 per adult and free for […]
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November 4, 2024

Fort Laurens Revolutionary War Reenactment

Come to Fort Laurens, the site of Ohio’s only Revolutionary War fort, for our annual Revolutionary War reenactment. Watch a mock skirmish for American Independence with volunteer reenactors from the Brigade of the American Revolution. Learn about 18th-century life from a variety of different demonstrations including music, artillery, cooking, medicine and discussions with Colonial and […]
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November 4, 2024

Fort Laurens Homeschool Day

Come to Fort Laurens and learn about life on the frontier during Homeschool Day. Students between fourth and eighth grade will learn more about the Revolutionary War and how early American settlers lived. There will be many interactive stations and demonstrations that cover Revolutionary War history, local Ohio history, archaeology and more! This event is […]
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November 4, 2024

Pi(e) Day

Celebrate International Pi(e) Day at Historic Zoar Village on March 14, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., to celebrate pi, the mathematical constant of 3.14, with a variety of delicious pies. On Pie Day, the Zoar Bakery will sell fresh, mouthwatering pies. Can’t wait until you get home to dig in? No problem! The […]
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October 28, 2024

MEMBER VIP: Peeling Back the Layers: Florence Harding

Florence Harding was First Lady for just 29 months, when President Warren G. Harding died of heart ailments in 1923. Her compelling story has been misinterpreted and twisted through the decades, leaving merely a shadowy sketch of her for us to get to know today. Join Sherry Hall, site manager of the Warren G. Harding […]
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October 28, 2024

Talk & Tour: Moon Landing Hoax

Join our museum educator in the STEM Inspiration Center at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum as we take a deeper dive into conspiracies surrounding the Moon landing. We will unpack and examine the claims against the Moon landing using science and evidence to see how the history holds up. After the presentation, take a […]
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October 18, 2024

Newspaper Searching Basics: Using Ohio Memory Newspapers for Genealogy

The Ohio History Connection provides free access to over 1,000,000 full-text searchable pages of Ohio newspapers through Ohio Memory. Join Ohio History Connection Digital Projects Coordinator, Lauren Kennedy, to learn how to use the search functions available to sift through the many digitized Ohio newspapers and find what you’re looking for. Registration is required.
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October 18, 2024

Guided Tours (Winter Hours)

Visitors will encounter the history this house witnessed in two different time periods 100 years apart: 1840: When abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati as a young teacher and mother preparing to write the blockbuster antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin 1940: When African-American proprietor Irene Bacon managed the house as the Edgemont Inn—a […]
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October 18, 2024

Amphibians of Cedar Bog

Jeff Davis, one of the authors of "Amphibians of Ohio" and a longtime Cedar Bog volunteer, will be speaking on all the amphibians that we can find at Cedar Bog! Join us in the nature center on March 15 at 10 a.m. We will take a walk on the boardwalk after the presentation.
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October 18, 2024

Poetry of Robert Hayden

Kick off our 2025 program year with an interactive poetry discussion with professor John Getz and author Kareem Simpson discussing the work of Robert Hayden, one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This event is free, though registration is required.