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
Loyalty is a one-way street
Woke up this morning to a story about Cam Atkinson having hosted a “Skate with Cam” charity event in the OhioHealth Ice Haus on Saturday, despite the fact the 32-year-old forward was traded by the Blue Jackets to the Philadelphia Flyers for former Jackets draftee...
Now we know exact locations of trading post, Fort Loramie
My fascination with discovering the exact location of historic events isn't new. The first time I read "The Frontiersman," Allan W. Eckert's classic about the Midwest in the late eighteenth century, I became hooked on his use of footnotes to let the reader know where...
A visit to Fort Clatsop sure beats spending a winter there
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...