Southeast Ohio History Center

MPP celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US at our monthly meeting in Marietta, the state’s oldest city and the capital of the Northwest Territory. Thank you to Tom OGrady of Southeast Ohio History Center for sharing so much Ohio history! Thanks to Buckeye Hills Regional Council for hosting at their beautiful new office location.

The Southeast Ohio History Center is proud to announce our new podcast, Echoes from the History Center, where staff members Tom O’Grady and Logan Lambert sit down with local historians from around the region dedicated to the preservation of where Ohio began, Southeast Ohio!

The “Echoes” project was born from Tom already hosting some episodes for WOUB’s Conversations from Studio B, which you will find some of those recordings making returns as future episodes, and the History Center’s goal of doing a lot of in-house content creation/promotion!

You can find this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, where you can listen to three great episodes out now:

- Dan Rowbotham, Madog Center for Welsh Studies
- Heidi Bender Kaufmann, Southern Ohio Museums
- Larry Groce & Erin Augenstein, ONE VOTE! The Musical

Here are the links:
Listen on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/echoes-from-the-history-center/id1896930904

Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/033yXsDGFHUCZYUONXcvYi?utm

We are also so grateful for our continued partnership with the generous folks at WOUB, who will continue to run our episodes along with their other fantastic programming!

"Over the past six years, we’ve often been asked how we got the idea of creating this show. The simple answer is that we read David McCullough’s book, The Pioneers, and were fascinated by the story and the characters involved. Also, like many of you I’m
sure - and most notably, Mr. McCullough - we were struck by Marietta’s important but often overlooked contribution to American History." - Larry Groce

Over the past weekend, the city Athens celebrated the 250th Birthday of the United States of America and we were honored to have helped plan this historic celebration! Thanks to everyone who came out and braved the heat to celebrate the Fourth of July with us!

Photos taken by our Director of Education and Engagement, Logan Lambert

Happy Fourth of July and Happy 250th! Today, Athens is hosting its 4th of July festivities and if you’re looking for a cool activity to do (and to beat the heat) come to the History Center to take part in our Historic Games competition! We will be open from 10:30-4 and will be having our Games competition from 2-4! While you’re in, check out our gift shop with new America250 products!