Just from the title, I expected this book to be a more general study of early settlers into the Midwest. The subtitle is “The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West”. However, this book is laser focused on Ohio, and mostly on Marietta. Had I read the dust cover, I would Read More
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Life on the Ohio Frontier, by Mary Lott
This is a collection of letters that were written by Mary Lott to her brother, Deacon John Phillips. Mary and her husband Henry had moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware County, Ohio, in the mid 1820’s. The letters start in 1826, and end shortly before John’s death in 1846. Mary died not long after her brother; Read More
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
We all learned about the Wright brothers in school – Orville & Wilber, Kitty Hawk, airplanes. But that is the much simplified version. This book goes into much more detail. Of course, the Wright’s were not the first to come up with the idea of creating a flying machine, but they were the first to Read More