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She wrote 1500 hymns

Lelia Naylor Morris wrote about 1500 hymns in all, over a 37 year period. Her best known song can still be found in hymnals today.

July 3, 2017 Coal mining / Ohio / Oral histories

When the war ended, all the coal mine whistles blowed

The school bells rung, and the peoples’ wonderin’, well they hadn’t heard yet that the Armistice was signed.…and then they all celebrated.

June 29, 2017 Colonial Era / Ohio

Squirrels in swarms eat up all the cornfields

Settlers moving into Ohio’s Miami Valley & the Virginia Military Tract were generally poorer, unable to buy land directly from the government.

June 1, 2017 Baseball / Black Appalachia / Ohio

It’s my skin! It’s my skin, Mr. Rickey!

In the summer of 1945, one white executive quietly, secretly, plotted an assault on baseball’s systematic practice of racial discrimination.

May 26, 2017 Ohio / Railroad industry

Final run of the Bellaire, Zanesville, and Cincinnati Railway

On the long grades, when the ‘Bent, Zig-zag and Crooked’ was heavily loaded, passengers sometimes got off and walked along side, even pushed on some occasions.

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