Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 10
Sherwood Anderson The Old Topliff and Ely PlantElyria, Ohio By Doug Sheldon Sherwood Anderson’s desertion of everything Elyrian was the first literary myth I swallowed whole. A counselor and I were walking along the railroad tracks that divided the north and south...
Oct 6, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Ohio, Poets, Volume 5
SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT William Henry Harrison TombNorth Bend, Ohio By Sean Andres It’s not hard to find something of historical significance in the Cincinnati area, but many people don’t even think about North Bend. The town was founded by John Cleves Symmes,...
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 2
Helen Hooven Santmyer Greene County CourthouseXenia, Ohio By Jacob A. Bruggeman I first visited Xenia, Ohio, a small city in the state’s southwestern corner, on a hot May afternoon in 2018. Headed north from Cincinnati on Interstate 71, smoke started rising out from...