by Bob Hunter | Aug 31, 2024 | College football, American history, Ohio history
When fans arrived at Ohio Stadium today for Ohio State’s football season opener against Akron, they were greeted by a statue of Archie Griffin. You’d have to be out of your mind to oppose a statue for Griffin, one of the great players in school history, the only...
by Bob Hunter | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized, American history, Journalism, Literature
Mark Twain visited Bermuda on the wooden steamer SS Quaker City in 1867 with 73 other travelers. It was at the end of a five-month cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. A San Francisco newspaper furnished his ticket in return for a regular series of travel stories about...
by Bob Hunter | Aug 1, 2021 | American history
The completion of a 10-day Oregon trip left me with a few more thoughts on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their 35-member Corps of Discovery. The explorers and their group encountered aggressive grizzly bears, angry rivers, ravenous mosquitoes, hostile natives...
by Bob Hunter | Jul 16, 2021 | American history
Because of an upcoming trip to Oregon, I pulled The Journals of Lewis and Clark off one of my bookshelves with the idea of leafing through it and reading a few selected passages. I’m 180 pages into it now and showing no signs of stopping, even though I’ve already read...
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