Good suggestions Sherman.

WAPAKONETA

City works to keep Armstrong museum

Historical society seeking local help to fill budget gaps

Monday,  May 4, 2009 - 2:54 AM

By James Hannah, Associate Press

 

Concerned that the museum named after native son Neil Armstrong might close in the face of state budget cuts, Wapakoneta-area officials have joined forces in hopes of taking over day-to-day operations of the facility.

 

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/04/copy/z-apoh_armstrong_museum_0502.ART_ART_05-04-09_B3_57DOH7A.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

^That is long overdue, I am glad to hear it.  I wish they would go back to using the actual main entrance the way it was supposed to be and the architect intended, rather than the crappy side door currently used.  The building is actually a good example of Brutalist IMO, entering the side door does not do it justice.

This is from 2008 but still is pretty cool.

 

UC Project Puts Midwest Mounds Back on the Map

 

Mammoth-sized earthworks built over three millennia by Native American peoples in the Midwest are now back on the map thanks to a University of Cincinnati project.

 

Date: 8/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

By: M.B. Reilly

Phone: (513) 556-1824

Photos By: Provided by John Hancock and by Dottie Stover

 

More than 10 years ago, University of Cincinnati researcher John Hancock, professor of architecture in UC’s top-ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), began an ambitious, complex project using modern technology to electronically rebuild lost or damaged Native American monuments that once rivaled Stonehenge in their astronomical accuracy.

 

That electronic rebuilding project, known as EarthWorks, is now traveling museums across the Midwest – an area where, once, thousands of mounds and earthworks were built by Native American cultures in the form of geometric shapes, ringed hilltops or animal effigies (think Ohio’s Serpent Mound or Fort Ancient).

 

 

more: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=8759

 

and http://www.ancientohiotrail.org/

Ohio Village reopens to strong interest

Visitors offered depiction of mid-19th-century life

By Summer Ballentine, The Columbus Dispatch

Monday, June 18, 2012 - 5:20 AM

 

After being closed for nine years because of budget cuts, the village reopened on June 2.  It’s next to the Ohio History Center at 17th Avenue and I-71.

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Susan Brouillette, the village’s public-programs manager, said she hopes the site will inspire others to take a similar interest in history.  Since the site reopened, between 150 and 250 people have visited per day, a steady stream that shows there’s a strong interest in the village, Brouillette said.

 

MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/06/18/ohio-village-reopens-to-strong-interest.html