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Group expanding publishing efforts By Kurt Backscheider
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Volume 82 Number 27 © 2009 The Community Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Grote retiring
Al Grote is looking forward to his first summer vacation in 44 years. Grote started that vacation after retiring as principal at St. Dominic School. He’s spent the past six years there. SCHOOLS, A4
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The Price Hill Historical Society now has some help marketing and distributing its books and publications. The society recently formed a partnership with Edgecliff Press, in which the Cincinnati-based publishing company will serve as the publisher and distributor of the society’s publishing ventures. “Working with Edgecliff lifts a lot of the burden of the publishing process from our volunteer staff and allows us to focus on writing about our history,” said historical society board member Julie Hotchkiss, who worked with her father, Roy, to establish the partnership. “We will be able to tackle more projects as well as ones we were not equipped for previously.” The historical society has published several books and magazines on its own throughout the years celebrating the people, the neighborhood and history of Price Hill. Valda Moore, recording secretary of the society, said the idea behind partnering with Edgecliff is to hopefully publish a couple of books each year, and save money
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Price Hill Historical Society board member Joyce Meyer glances through one of the books the society published about old-fashioned games. The historical society has partnered with Edgecliff Press to handle its future publishing ventures. doing it. “They are a local company willing to work with us for a minimal cost,” she said. “It’s great for us, and we won’t
have to spend $10,000 to put out a book.” Moore said historical society members have discussed publishing a compilation of the oral histo-
ries featured in the group’s monthly newsletter, putting together a book of Roy Hotchkiss’ “The Old Curmudgeon” newsletter columns, expanding on a previous book about old-fashioned games and publishing a book society member Richard Jones is writing about baseball in Price Hill. Ari Buchwald, publisher of Edgecliff Press, said his company is excited to launch the partnership. “In working with Price Hill Historical Society, we look forward to capturing and distributing crucial nuggets, tales, commentary and images from Cincinnati’s neighborhood history,” he said. “Working with them fits Edgecliff’s niche focus...and allows us the opportunity to extend our work into additional areas such as assisting in merchandising of images from their publications.” Board member Roy Hotchkiss said entering the partnership allows the society to take its previous efforts to the next level. “Our organization is dedicated to collecting, cataloguing and writing about local history,” he said. “We will be able to expand the scope of our work as well as the size of our vibrant and growing audience.”
Price Hill library celebrates history By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Elvia Tuttle and her fellow librarians at the Price Hill Branch Library are excited about an upcoming event celebrating the library’s 100th anniversary. “We are fired up,” said Tuttle, manager of the branch. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.” She’s been working with a committee of neighborhood volunteers for the past several months to organize the festivities for the library’s historic anniversary. A kick-off celebration dubbed “Summer Blast from the Past” is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the library, 3215 Warsaw Ave. An official ceremony and open house commemorating the building’s 100 years will take place in November. The Price Hill branch, which opened in 1909, is one of the nine libraries in Hamilton County built with funds provided by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Notable features of the French Renaissance-style brick and limestone building include a roof with tin deck and slate slopes, fleur-delis grid over the doors, bird head door handles and cherry wood shelves. “It’s one of the few libraries still operating out of its original building,” said Kara Ray, community organizer for Price Hill Will and a volunteer on the planning committee. “One hundred years is pretty
A kick-off celebration dubbed “Summer Blast from the Past” is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the library, 3215 Warsaw Ave. impressive.” Tuttle said the August event will tie in with the culmination of the library’s summer reading program, and will feature free ice cream and snow cones and oldfashioned games like three-legged races, hoops, jacks and hopscotch. She said the event also marks the start of a mural project the teenagers in the library’s art club will create on the basement walls. Art club members will also help build the library’s float for the annual Price Hill Thanksgiving Day Parade. “Our teens are going to be heavily involved in the celebrations,” she said. “The art teams are very talented and gifted.” Plans for the November celebration include a display of photographs from throughout the library’s history, tours of the building, a display of a community quilt and a scrapbook of testimonials from Price Hill residents about their memories of the branch’s early days, she said. “We are going to be celebrating the library’s role in the Price Hill community and Andrew Carnegie’s legacy,” Tuttle said.
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Green thumb
Carl Thiem shrugged off the heat and humidity of the early summer season to help his uncle complete some landscaping work in front of his Price Hill home, Friday, June 26.
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