For decades, students at Upper Arlington High School walked across their campus, unaware of the history buried beneath their very own feet. The land—now home to classrooms and athletic fields—once held the graves of Black Ohioans who built businesses and communities despite the denial of basic civil rights.
In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the Ohio government: instead of marking their vehicles with an orange slow moving vehicle emblem and bright battery-operated blinkers, they would instead stick reflective tape on their buggies and use kerosene lanterns as headlights.
That agreement stood for decades.
At the end of February, Port Clinton residents hold a bonfire like no other in the state: they set a 30-foot snowman on fire.
It’s the Ohio city’s way of saying goodbye to the bitter cold of winter, and a nod to the famed “Burning Man" festival, hosted in the blistering heat of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Virginia Harewood was eight years old in 1954 when the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education supposedly ended segregation in schools. But despite that, her elementary school in the southwestern city of Hillsboro was still divided.
The Haitians in the Heartland series is a result of six months of close collaboration between the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO with a group of Springfield residents from Haiti, who had been involved in an Internet radio station in Springfield called New Diaspora Live.
Walking through the doors of the Cozad-Bates House, visitors embark on a journey into the past, a step closer to understanding the struggles that paved the way for freedom and equality.
Over the course of 18 years, Ohio and its communities are receiving nearly $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies to compensate for harm caused by opioids. The Ohio Newsroom is following the money. This is our settlement story of the month.
Barbershop harmony had its heyday over 100 years ago, but enthusiastic performers keep the tradition thriving in Ohio. Singers from around the state find camaraderie and healthy competition through participation in the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS).
The BHS is the chief governing organization for international competitions and has over 16,000 members all over the world.
On a snowy December day, Terry and Gwen Shavers are putting the final touches on a small home in Braceville, cleaning up the kitchen and arranging black and white photos along the home’s bright yellow walls.
It’s hard to jam all the cars into the lot at Weber Road Auto Service on a busy day.
And they’re basically all busy days.
The local auto shop has been serving Columbus’ North Linden neighborhood for 23 years. With four technicians, including shop owner Eric Easley, and four service bays, the automotive technicians fix between 15 and 25 cars a day.
