Online Events

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Dressing the 1890s—Creating the Costumes for Ohio Village

TUES., MAY 9 • 3–4 P.M. Online—Attend from Anywhere! 4 Join us for a fun and educational webinar with Jennifer Rounds, fabrication coordinator for Ohio Village, our recreated 1890s community, who’ll talk about creating the costumes for our village staff and volunteers. She’ll share where she gets her patterns and fabrics, highlight some of the challenges of doing this type of sewing and show us examples of costumes she’s made. Free to Ohio History Connection members with advance registration: ohiohistory. org/costumes

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Upcoming Special Events

Enjoy the following special events at no additional charge. Ohio History Connection members enjoy free admission!

Sat., May 20

Summer Season Opening

Carnival

Sat., June 10

Storybook Village

Advance Timed Tickets Required

SUN., JUNE 18 | NOON-4 P.M.

Juneteenth

Jubilee Day Festival

Sat., July 1 frequently for The New York Times and The Washington Post; and Michael F. Holt whose works on 19th-century politics include The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War and By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Free with required advance registration. 800.998.7737 or rbhayes.org/1876

President Hayes’s 200th Birthday Celebration is sponsored by Croghan Colonial Bank.

Presidential History Book Club

WEDS., MAY 31 & JUNE 28

NOON–1 P.M.

Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Fremont, and Online—Attend from Anywhere! 4 See page 20.

The 1876

Election and American Democracy

THURS., MAY 11 • 7 P.M. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, and Online—Attend from Anywhere! 4 The legacy of President Rutherford B. Hayes is tied to one of the most contested presidential elections in U.S. history and the end of Reconstruction. In observance of his 200th birthday, hear a group of experts discuss these issues, moderated by Hayes Historian Dustin McLochlin. Joining virtually, they include: Gregory Downs, author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, co-author of the National Park Service theme study on Reconstruction and an editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era; Erik Alexander, author of articles and essays on Civil War-era politics, Washington Post op-ed pieces on the election of 1876 and a forthcoming book, Revolution Forestalled: Northern Democrats and the Politics of Reconstruction, 1865–1877; Richard Pildes, a leading scholar of constitutional law and specialist in legal issues concerning democracy, who writes

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Get to Know Wahkeena

Nature Preserve

THURS., JUNE 22 • 3–4 P.M.

Online—Attend from Anywhere! 4 Nora Steele, education coordinator for the Ohio History Connection’s Wahkeena Nature Preserve near Lancaster and Sugar Grove, offers an insider’s view of the flora and fauna that make this site so special. She’ll recount some of the preserve’s history, as well as tips for a great visit. Free to Ohio History Connection members with advance registration: ohiohistory.org/ knowwahkeena.

SEMI-COLON BOOK CLUB

The Light of Knowledge

SAT., JUNE 24 • 10–11:30 A.M.

Walnut Hills Branch Library, Cincinnati, and Online—Attend from Anywhere! Hosted by Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati 4 See page 23.

Thank you to Ohio Village season sponsor Vector Security.