by Bob Hunter | Sep 28, 2024 | Ohio history, Literature
I sold one book at the Cambridge (Ohio) Main Street Fall Festival today.This might not seem like much to a person who doesn’t write books, but given the circumstances, it actually was quite impressive.Let me to tell you a little story about some of the perils of...
by Bob Hunter | Sep 3, 2024 | College football, Ohio history
As chance would have it, a copy of the Rose Bowl press release that announced the erection of Archie Griffin’s statue in Pasadena and a duplicate outside Ohio Stadium in Columbus has come into my possession.I needed to write about that for a couple of reasons. First,...
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 | Aug 16, 2022 | Ohio history
When I was a boy, a large rock enjoyed a prominent place in my grandparents’ front yard. It lay next to the sidewalk that led to their farm house, a few feet from Hunter Road. Someone had painted it white, as if it needed it to stand out. It didn’t. It wasn’t huge,...
by Bob Hunter | Jul 31, 2022 | Ohio history
On my third trip to the site of the Big Bottom Massacre, I again saw no park visitors. To put this in baseball terms, I’m 0 for 3. It doesn’t seem as much a slump as status quo. A guy did show up to cut the grass at one point, but he went about his task like a...
by Bob Hunter | Jun 8, 2022 | Ohio history
Sometimes you can find old “friends” when you go down history’s rabbit hole. After the recent death of my Dad’s cousin, I ended up with a small pile of family papers that she left behind. Among them was great grandfather Albert Hornung’s purchase agreement for a new,...
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