By Bob Hunter
Road to Wapatomica
Sports Journalist and Author
Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter is the author of eleven books including Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts, Bob Hunter on Sports, a collection of some of his columns from his more than 40 years at the Columbus Dispatch.
Bob’s Other Books
Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts
A Hall of Fame collection of Bob’s best writing from the Columbus Dispatch.
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus
Finding the past in the present in Ohio’s capital city
Saint Woody
The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
Thurberville
James Thurber’s Columbus was not today’s Columbus—or even yesterday’s
Bob’s Latest Blog Entries
Sometimes those old buildings you pass have lived other lives
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,...
Old North Graveyard a place that really should be haunted
When I saw the rendering of the impressive 31-story building that will rise just to the east of the city’s North Market in Saturday’s Columbus Dispatch, my first thought was of the long-time “residents” of that block. This seemed like something they wouldn’t take...
An empty lot breathes new life into Recreation Park
The Giant Eagle grocery store on Whittier Street in Schumacher Place in Columbus is gone, replaced by a, uh, giant lot surrounded by a chain link fence. My deepest condolences to the neighborhood folks who have beautiful memories of time spent trolling for fresh...