No comments about Life, Liberty, And Property (Ohio History and Culture).

3 comments about Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 (Ohio).

1. A wonderful trip back to Millionaire's Row, and the unbelievable homes that lined Cleveland's Euclid Avenue (including the fascinating men who built them), in the late 1800's. Plenty of pictures too. A must book for any lover of Cleveland history.



2. This publication was exactly what I was looking for. Amazon found it --- and sent it to me quickly.



3. It's been 3 days and I haven't been able to put this book down. Absolutely fascinating. And of course the pictures are my favorite part.

1 comments about Finding Your Family History in Northeast Ohio.

1. This books offers numerous ideas as to places to look for your information, whether the records are land & property records, social security, vital records, military and many more. Not only does the author states places to look, but also gives fabulous hints for documentation of your facts. The book also includes a reference section to other books that may help your research and also includes blank forms that can be duplicated to keep your records in a detailed order. Author has published 2 other books about cemeteries of the Northeast Ohio making this a very complete setCleveland Cemeteries: Stone, Symbols & Stories (Ohio)[[ASIN:1598510258 Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio: Stones, Symbols & Stories

No comments about Marriage Records of Scioto County, Ohio, 1803-1860.

2 comments about Written On The Hills (Ohio History & Culture Series).

1. I was enthralled with this book. It brings together geography, history, and the people of Akron. I truly enjoyed it!



2. This book describes in detail the "why"s behind Akron's crooked streets and abandoned canals. A complete overview of the growth of this industrial midwest city from before its founding up to 1996.

2 comments about Ohio's Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal.

1. This book delivers what the title implies: A near-flawless history of the Ohio & Erie canal. Its chapters on the Lessee and declining years of the canal were excellent.



2. I bought this book for a family member who lives in the Zoar, Ohio area. He enjoyed the local history as he has been to many areas along the canal site. I would purchase this book again. Always good to support local authors as well!!

2 comments about Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron (Ohio History and Culture).

1. Excellent case study of how invention grew a city and the company-city relationship. Demonstrates

   the importance of innovation and how industries die if they don't embrace change.

   The effect on the Akron people is excellent.




2. As a native of Akron, OH, I was very interested in reading this book and learning the history of the city which was known as the Rubber Capitol of the World.

   This book is very well written and contains many beautiful sharp photos from the past.

   The rubber industry has had an effect on everyone. Learn how it all started and how the the creator of modern rubber died pennyless. I very highly recommend this book!

5 comments about Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia).

1. I liked this book because it reminds me of the incredible power of imagination, especially when applied with care, compassion and courage, to illuminate and heal.



2. This was such a great book. The way it was written, with stories of the past and present juxtaposed, really kept it moving along and held my interest. And I really appreciated how much effort (and emotional resilience) it must have taken the author to pull this book together - how many difficult conversations with family members, plus all the research about the area (including the interesting Applachian speech patterns she captures so well).
   
   I read it several months ago, but the stories of life in the region keep coming back to me - the tiny cabins, the hard labor, the conservation, the reliance on family. There are a lot of different takeaways one could carry away from this book, but for me the timing of reading it during such difficult economic times is a helpful reminder that there is much I can do without.



3. Brutal honesty... Paragon of persistence... Blazing versatility... Role model for all family historians... These are a few of the cryptic notes I jotted as I read Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, by Linda Tate. I was struck by the impact of the basic story, and my appreciation deepened as I considered the craft and research involved in writing this gripping six generation tale.
   
   Linda's brutal honesty was fascinating. She tip-toed into it, occasionally letting silence speak louder than words. Early in the story she alluded to things that happened with her father in secret places. She never specifically filled in those details, but later disclosures gave more substance to assumptions. Two accounts, written as heavily researched interpretations of the lives of the grandmother she dimly remembered with the greatest affection and that grandmother's grandmother, were even more explicit, based on collective family memories and legends. Linda was brutally honest about her own thoughts and reactions as understanding of her family history unfolded in unexpected ways.
   
   A recurring dream of searching for her grandmother and never quite finding her sparked the beginning of her research in 1988. Her book was published in 2009, twenty-one years later. She spent most of those years doing research, both academic and on-site, fitting it piece-meal into a busy academic career. The research paid off in a literary masterpiece rich with layers and facets.
   
   Which leads to versatility of both voice and content. When she wrote of her early childhood, she wrote with the voice of a young child. That voice matured as the story progressed. When she wrote in the voices of her grandmothers, their personalities were distinctly evident through the choice of words as well as the dialect she used to good effect as she wrote. I had the sense of sitting on the front stoop listening to these women muse about the past. The fictionalized parts were every bit as vivid and compelling as accounts of her own experience. She has done an amazing job of blending fact and fiction, always making it clear where the boundaries lie without letting those boundaries intrude.
   
   In addition to the story content, Linda includes extensive backstory, explaining how she did her research, lending additional credibility and authenticity to inherently powerful stories. The research also served as the framework for weaving in rich detail about the history of relations between white settlers and the native population of Appalachian Tennessee and Kentucky, and the inbred culture of "The Land Between the Rivers" where her forebears settled after being driven out of the family homeland up the Cumberland River farther east in Tennessee.
   
   As the book recounts stories of brutal abuse, it gives testimony to the generation-spanning damage this behavior causes as well as the strength of the human spirit and its ability to endure and transcend. It's also a testimony to the shackle-shattering power of shedding light on the past to replace fear and shame with healing, hope and reconciliation for new generations.
   
   The story is worth a read for its own sake. Family historians and memoirists will derive added value from the fine example of craft.



4. I was stunned by Linda Tate's deft interweaving of memoir, family research, and psychological mystery. She gracefully balances personal with Appalachian history. Her memoir reads like a novel, right down to an unexpected twist of the plot that takes the reader by surprise just before the end of the book.



5. Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative is the true-life memoir of author Linda Tate's journey to learn more about her Cherokee-Appalachian heritage. Refusing to sugar-coat the domestic violence, poverty, and discrimination that have left their effects on the lives of Tate's Cherokee-Appalachian relatives, Power in the Blood also tells stories of individual and communal strength in the face of adversity. Tate embarked on exhaustive research through archives, libraries, and courthouses to track down distant relatives (all descended from her great-great-grandmother Louisiana), and in the process helped orchestrate family reunions with swapped stories that unearthed her family's forgotten past. An extraordinary family journey, highly recommended especially for Native American memoir shelves.

No comments about A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774.

3 comments about The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock (Shawnee Classics).

1. This book tells the story of the outlaws of the early West (western Kentucky, southeastern Illinois, and Tennessee from around 1795 to 1820). These men were not the gun-toting, bank-robbing criminals of the Wild West but were highway robbers and river pirates who most often wielded knives and axes. They preyed on pioneers living in isolated cabins in the wilderness and on traders coming down the Ohio River on flatboats or traveling inland along wilderness trails.

   Most of these criminals at one time or another used Cave-in-Rock as their headquarters. This huge cave, on the Illinois side of the lower Ohio River, is about 85 miles below Evansville, Indiana.

   The most notorious of all the criminals of this time and place were the two Harpe brothers, who were said to kill men, women, and children simply to gratify a lust for cruelty. One story epitomizes the brutality of their exploits: Traveling through western Kentucky, the Harpes came to a cabin, where they found only a mother and her baby, the husband being off hunting. They asked to spend the night, and the next morning they asked the woman to prepare breakfast for them. She consented to do so but said that it would take her some time because her child was not well and she had no one to nurse it. The men then said that she should put the baby in its cradle and they would rock it while she cooked. After the woman had served their breakfast, she went to the cradle to see if the child was asleep, expressing some astonishment that her child should remain quiet for so long a time. She found the infant lying breathless, its throat cut from ear to ear.

   "Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock" was first published in 1923 and was recently reprinted by Southern Illinois University Press. Historians, amateur and professional, will value this book interesting for the light it sheds on a period of the nation's history that has received too little attention.




2. This book by a noted historian tells how river pirates and wilderness highwaymen (and women) preyed on westward travelers in the 1800s.
   
   As the country developed westward, a particular mix of men and women criminals practiced their arts at the moving edge of civilization and law. Whether traveling by land or river, many travelers passed through Southern Illinois during this time and had to deal with criminals whose practices were sometimes beyond imagination. A central player in this drama was the "Cave-in-Rock", a large cavern that opens appealingly upriver on the Ohio near the present day village and state park of the same name.
   
   While the cavern functioned as an Inn and Tavern that was a welcome sight to travelers, at times the proprietors served up meyhem and murder along with the grog and gruel. This was aptly shown in the movie How the West Was Won.
   
   The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock focuses on the major criminal elements and their leaders that operated along the Ohio River near Cave-in-Rock and the nearby inlands of the Shawnee Hills. Mr. Rothert does an excelent job of distinguishing between documented and oral history and tells about the individuals as well as the events of interest. The blood lust and gold lust of some of the central figures is astounding and their resourcefulness in obtaining both is frightening.
   
   In showing the flavor of the dark side of humanity that plagued these westward travelers, The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock is unmatched.



3. Very interesting, would have liked more factual records, but realize going back to Revolutionary times might
   be hard to cover.