When Emma Gatewood was 67 years old, she hiked from Georgia to Maine, becoming the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in 1955.
Two years later, she did it again.
Affectionately called Grandma Gatewood, Emma spent much of her life in the woods or in her garden. She died in 1973 and is buried in the Ohio Valley Memory Gardens near her home in Gallia County.
At first glance, Great Council State Park in Xenia Township, Greene County looks like any other in Ohio: a stretch of prairie, a smattering of trees, trails that lead off into the forest. But its location is part of what makes it special: it sits on the former site of Old Chillicothe – one of the largest-known 18th century Shawnee villages in Ohio. Now, it’s the 76th Ohio state park.
Every Monday and Thursday at 4 o’clock, the Chesterhill Produce Auction springs into action.
So far, the summer afternoons at Lincoln Park in Bryan have been packed. Kids zigzag their way through crowds, playing tag around swirling slides and taunting their parents to catch them if they can.
Cincinnati has a problem: every year billions of gallons of raw sewage end up in the city’s waterways.
The city has a combined sewer system, so toilet water and stormwater flow through the same pipes. Normally this water is treated, but if it rains enough, the system will overflow, releasing raw sewage straight into waterways.
The first time Ohio school vouchers went to court was more than two decades ago. In 2002, the constitutionality of the so-called Cleveland Scholarship, which gave public school students taxpayer-paid vouchers to attend private religious schools came before the U.S. Supreme Court.
School vouchers have exploded in use in Ohio since last summer when the state legislature made all families, regardless of their income level, eligible for the private school scholarships.
As students mill around Indian Creek High School’s cafeteria, Superintendent T.C. Chappelear greets them with a smile, stopping to chat, complimenting one on his performance in the school play.
Long before Dean Martin joined the Rat Pack, he grew up in Steubenville as Dino Crocetti. Each year, the eastern Ohio city honors his Ohio roots with a festival. The city hosts Dean Martin impersonators, trolley rides to significant sites of the singer’s childhood and even a Dino Dash 5k.
A one-room schoolhouse in Akron. A 19th century era Episcopal church in Cincinnati. A century old department store in Columbus. All of these buildings have long sat empty, forgotten with time, and are now under threat of demolition.
