Today Rosalie Yoakam comes for another visit and tells the remarkable story of Quaker Jane Finley Wales Nicholson (b. February 1st, 1806 in Iredale Co., North Carolina - d. September 9th, 1906 in Indiana), an early pioneer of the Waynesville-Harveysburg area.  Jane and her husband, Valentine, were conductors on the Underground Railroad and were involved in other liberal reform movements of the time. Both Jane  and Valentine Nicholson left memoirs of their lives.

For more information see:

Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson  

There is a twelve page article about Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson in the 2007 Report of the Research Committee for the Third Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference: Anti-Slavery & the Underground Railroad ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom.  The report is available for $15.00 + 2.00 postage.  The money goes into the Ohioana Room Fund which supports the conference and other Ohioana Room activities. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the "Report", contact Karen at campbeka@oplin.org.

 Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php. 

 
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Today local historian Denny Dalton comes for a visit and tells the unusual story of St. Marys  Episcopal Church in Waynesville, Ohio.  He also invites everyone to come and celebrate St. Mary's 140th Anniversary. 

The celebrationwill be held at the church on Sunday, September 30th, 2007
TOURS AT:  3:00 PM and 5:30 PM
1869 CHURCH SERVICE AT: 4:00 PM
Refreshments will be available.

Denny is a native of Waynesville and is the official Town Crier of Warren County, Ohio.  Denny is a local historican and researcher.  He is also famous for his interest in the ghosts of Waynesville.

To contact Denny:  1-513-228-0186

Related Links:
Israel Hopkins Harris ~ Waynesville Banker, Businessman and Scholar

J. Drew Sweet (1839-1893) ~ Publisher of the Miami-Gazette

Achilles Henry Pugh (1805-1876) ~ Orthodox Quaker, Publisher, Anti-Slavery Leader, Ecumenist, and Resident of Waynesville & Cincinnati

Achilles Henry Pugh ~ Publishing Against Slavery (Podcast)

A. E. Merritt ~ Contractor and Builder  

Another Murder in Waynesville? ~ Captain William Rion Hoel

The Brown Family ~ Publishers of the Miami~Gazette

Enoch Jacobs ~ Business Man, Civil War Hero, Public Servant, and United States Consul to Montevideo, in the Republic of Uruguay, South America

St. Mary's Episcopal Church 

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Today, Ruth Dobyns, the curator of the Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, tells us of a new Quaker Tour with stops in Waynesville, Harveysburg, and Wilmington, Ohio.

Right: The White Brick Meetinghouse in Waynesville, Ohio.

For more information about the sites see:

Miami Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends in Waynesville, Ohio

THE 1905 FRIENDS BOARDING HOME TIMELINE & FURTHER INFORMATION

THE BLACK SCHOOL IN HARVEYSBURG, OHIO

THE HARVEYSBURG ACADEMIES

Quaker Heritage Center

For further information contact:

The Friends Home Museum:  http://www.friendshomemuseum.org/

The Quaker Heritage Center: http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/faculty.cfm 

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COURAGE
COOPERATION
PERSERVERANCE
FREEDOM

Today we go on a field trip to Cincinnati, Ohio to visit the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.  We will be speaking with Dr. Spencer R. Crew who was named the executive director of the Freedom Center in 2004. 

The web address of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is www.freedomcenter.org.  The site is quite large and extremely informative. 

Please note that we have changed our title from "Waynesville Wanderings" to "Waynesville Voices".  Thank you.

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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Today on "Waynesville Voices" our guest is Rosalie Yoakam, a free lance reporter, writer and columnist.  She contributes two columns to the "Dayton Daily News".  One is a personal column; the other is a local history column.    She is also an active member of the Springboro Historical Society. 

Rosalie will be telling us about the Bedford family of Springboro and their involvement in the abolition and Underground Railroad movements. She will also tell the story of the Great Springboro Rescue which included many of our local anti-slavery people and UGRR conductors. 

See Rosalie's written column about William S. Bedford on The Mary L. Cook Public Library ~ Ohioana Room site: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20William%20S.%20Bedford.pdf.

Please note that we have changed our title from "Waynesville Wanderings" to "Waynesville Voices".  Thank you.

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Friends of the Mary L. Cook Pubic Library
SPRING  3-DAY BOOK SALE
May 3 - May 5, 2007
Community Room

Directions to library:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/about/directions.html
381 Old Stage Road
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
1-513-897-4826
mlcp@oplin.org

Thursday Evening ~ May 3, 2007 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
For Members of the Friends of the Library only. 
Memberships will be available at door:
Individual Membership ~ $5.00
Family Memebership ~ $10.00

Friday ~ May 4, 2007 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (public)

Saturday ~ May 5, 2007 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon (public)

We will have a large selection of adult and children's books both hardcover and paperback, magazines, audiobooks, videos (entertainment and education) for sale.

Volunteers are needed to work the sale.  Sign up at the circulation desk beginning April 2nd.   

To celebrate National Poetry Month, a four-session creative writing workshop will be held at The Mary L. Cook Public Library every Tuesday evening beginning:

When:  March 27 through April 17 (Tuesdays)
Time:   6:30 to 8:00 PM
Where: Community Room
Free to any one interested in exploring their poetry writing creativity.
Registration required

To register call 513-897-4826 or register in person at the circulation desk.

No experience needed.

Grace Curtis is your facilitator.

For directions to the library:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/about/directions.html 
The Mary L. Cook Public Library
381 Old Stage Road
Waynesville, Ohio 45068

There will be a "Ukrainian Egg Decorating" class at The Mary L. Cook Public Library on:

When:  Saturday, March 24, 2007 
Time: 10:00 A.M. 
Where:  Community Room
No Fee
No Registration ~ Walk In

Try your hand at decorating eggs with intricate Ukrainian patterns.

For directions to the library: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/about/directions.html
The Mary L. Cook Public Library
381 Old Stage Road
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
1-513-897-4826

I would again like to thank Ruth Dobyns for her presentation during our last podcast about the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center located at Wlmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.  She spoke about the Walthall family that settled near Dover Monthly Meeting of Friends in the late 1820s. 

The Heritage Center is now hosting the display: "Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to Present", and, the next exhibit will be "Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes, John Woolman and Other Anti-Slavery Friends"(April 1-June 22) which is being shown in conjunction with the upcoming Quaker Genealogy & History Conference in April on the topic of Anti-Slavery.  

I would highly encourage our listeners, those who have any Quaker artifacts or journals in their possession and are wondering what to do with them, to consider a gift to the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center.

In our last podcast concerning a local Quaker involved in anti-slavery, we examined the life of "Public Friend"  Thomas Arnett, an Orthodox Quaker Traveling Minister and preacher.  Today we will tell the story of another local Orthodox Quaker, Dr. Jesse Harvey, and his wife Elizabeth Burgess Harvey who lived in Harveysburg.  This family of educators and physicians was involved in the founding of the first Black School in Ohio at Harveysburg, the founding of the Harveysburg Academy (High School), were conductors on the Underground Railroad, and were ministers to the Shawnee Indians at the Quaker Shawnee Mission and School in Wapakoneta, Ohio and then later in Kansas Territory after the Shawnee were forced to migrate west in 1833.

Dover Monthly Meetinghouse websites:

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/09/dover-monthly-meeting-of-society-of.html, and,

http://www.doverfriends.info/ 

 "Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to Present" websites: 

http://www2.wilmington.edu/about/news.cfm?news_id=1000&archive=no, and,

http://www.quakerbooks.org/silent_witness.php  

 John Woolman websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woolman, and,

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WooJour.html 

 Dr. Jesse Harvey & Elizabeth Burgess Harvey (Mendenhall) websites:

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2007/01/harveysburg-academies-co.html (The Harveysburg Academies & Strife Over Abolition), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2006/12/obituary-of-dr.html (An Obituary of Dr. Jesse Harvey), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/10/elizabeth-burgess-harvey-mendenhall.html (Elizabeth Burgess Harvey Mendenhall), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/black-school-in-harveysburg-ohiothe.html (The Black School in Harveysburg, Ohio), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/zion-baptist-african-american-church.html (Zion Baptist African-American Church, the old Academy).

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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Our special guest today is Ruth Dobyns, the curator of The Meriam Hare Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.  The Quaker Heritage Center and The Mary L. Cook Public Library have partnered to present the annual Quaker Genealogy and History Conference. 

Today Ruth gives us  a history of and an audio tour of the Quaker Heritage Center.

For more information about the Quaker Heritage Center see:

http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/, and,

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/09/opening-and-dedication-of-new-quaker.html.

For information about the Quaker Genealogy & History Conference, see:

http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/news.cfm?news_id=582&archive=no

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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Our guest today is Larry Gara, Professor Emeritus of History of Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.  He has also taught at many other colleges:  Eureka, Blufton, the University of Delaware, Grove City College, and Mexico City College.  He has written a number of books:

1. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
2. The Underground Railroad Handbook (National Park Service), a contributor.
3. The Baby Dodds Story: As Told to Larry Gara
4. The Presidency of Franklin Pierce
5. A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories, Compiled and edited by Larry and his wife Lenna Mae.

He has published a multitude of articles in his carreer. Some of them about the Underground Railroad are:

1. The Underground Railroad: Legend or Reality?, Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society, Vol. 105, No. 3 (Jun. 27, 1961), pp. 334-339
2. Friends and the Underground Railroad, Quaker History (Vol. 51, Spring, 1962, No. 1), pp. 3-19.
3. Who was an Abolitionist?, The Anti-Slavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists, edited by Martin Dubermaw (Princeton: Princeton Universtiy Press, 1965), pp. 32-51.
4. Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truthes: A Speech of Frederck Douglass edited by Larry Gara (Ohio Journal, Vol. 75, pp. 3-9). This article is online at: http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=00753.html&StartPage=3&EndPage=9&volume=75&notes=notes%2067&newtitle=Volume%2075%20Page%203  

In 1984 Mr. Gara won the War Resisters League Peace Award given by the War Resisters League.  A pacifist of great conviction, Mr. Gara spent 3 and a half years in federal prison for refusing to register for the World War II draft.

Books mentioned in Larry's presentation:

1. The Underground Railroad by William Still (tells many stories of African-American self help when escaping)
2. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself
4. The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
5. Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles
6. Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin
7. Four Fugitive Slave Narratives by Robin W.Winks, Larry Gara, Jane H.& Wm. H. Pease, and Tilden G. Edelstein  (There are many other books which relate Slave Narratives.)
8. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard (Larry believes that this book contributes to the mythology of the UGRR but not the realities.) 

For more information about the upcoming conference, Anti-Slavery/UGRR ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom, and related activities in April 2007, please click on:

Schedule & Registration Form for Anti-Slavery ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom~ PDF File

Registration Form for the April 26, 2007 Tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ~   PDF File

Photo Credit:  Randy Sarvis of Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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For more information about Achilles H. Pugh click on the following links:

http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Achilles%20Pugh%20-%20Orthodox%20Quaker-Publisher-Anti-Slavery%20Leader.htm (Mary L. Cook Library website), and,

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/07/famous-quakers-from-southwest-ohio.html (Quaker Genealogy in SW Ohio blog)

A short biography about his daughter Esther is at:

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/07/famous-quakers-from-southwest-ohio_01.html

See our third podcast about the detail of the 3rd Quaker Genealogy & History Conference ~ Anti-Slavery/UGRR ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom:

http://campbeka.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=176470

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Pioneer Friend Abijah O'Neall was one of the founders of Miami Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends in Waynesville, Ohio.  His story is similar to the story of many Friends who moved their families from the South to the free territory of the old Northwest to escape from the evil influences of slavery.  The earliest members of Miami Monthly Meeting came from Bush River Monthly Meeting of South Carolina.  Other Friends came to the area from Wrightsboro, Georgia, North Carolina, and from the Mid-Atlantic States such as Pennsylvania.

For information about Friend O'Neall listen to this podcast and read an article about him on our "Quaker Genealogy in Southwest Ohio" blog:

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/09/abijah-and-ann-kelly-oneall-samuel-and.html

The "Quaker O'Nealls and Friends Genealogical Website" is at:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~joneall/.

Also see the following article, "The O'Nealls and Slavery" on this same site:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~joneall/famhisty/on_slavery.html

For more information about Miami Monthly Meeting see:

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/06/miami-monthly-meeting-of-society-of.html

The story of Abijah O'Neall as told by Ella B. Keys is found in the publication of the Committee to Arrange For and Hold Friend's Commemorative Services entitled: "Friends Centennial, Miami Monthly Meeting, Waynesville, Ohio, 1803-1903," pp. 117-121. 

The full text of this work can be found at ancestry.com:

http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=27940&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 

 Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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For more information about the upcoming conference activities in April, please click on:

Schedule & Registration Form for Anti-Slavery ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom~ PDF File

Registration Form for the April 26, 2007 Tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ~   PDF File

The Freedom Center/Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio:

http://www.freedomcenter.org/

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Karen gives a short tour of the Ohioana Research Room in The Mary L. Cook Public LIbrary.  See the map of the Ohioana Room above.

Some of the links mentioned in the podcast:

1. The "Virtual" Ohioana Room:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/ohioana_roommary_l.htm
2. Recent Quaker Genealogy & History Conferences:
1. First Conference: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20The%20First%20Annual%20Quaker%20Genealogy%20Conference%20flyer.pdf
2. Second Conference: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Quaker%20Ministry%20in%20Wilderness%20Article.htm
3. Our Upcoming Conference in April:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/(Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Registration%20form%20for%20the%203rd%20Annual%20Quaker%20Genealogy%20.pdf
4. An Upcoming Event in April:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Registration%20for%20Tour%20of%20UGRR%20Museum.pdf
5. Our Three Blogs:
1. Quaker Genealogy in Southwest Ohio:  http://www.qugenswohio.blogspot.com/
2. Waynesville, Ohio ~ Connections with the Past: http://waynesgenhis.blogspot.com/
3. Harveysburg on Caesar's Creek:  http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/
   There is a listing of all our articles published on all three blogs on the Ohioana Room webpage.  Click on the article you want to read and it will come up.
6. Quaker Research Guides:
1. "Friendly Research" pathfinder (.pdf file).  This is a large file and may take a while to download.   http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Friendly%20Research-Quaker%20Genealogical%20Resources%20Online.pdf
2. A Guide to Quaker Meetinghouses and Sites in Southwest Ohio.  this page also includes modern maps of the area and Marcus Motes 1853 map of Indiana Yearly Meeting (Orthodox): http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Maps%20of%20Quaker%20Meetinghouses%20in%20Southwest%20Ohio.htm
3. A History of the 1905 Friend's Boarding Home in Waynesville & an Abstract of the Minutes of the Board of Trustees for the First 25 years of its existence.  The 1905 Friends Boarding Home is now the Museum at the Friends Home ~ The Waynesville Area Heritage & Cultural Center:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Chronological%20Notes%20about%20FBH.htm

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Welcome to our first podcast from The Mary L. Cook Public Library in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio.  The village is located at the intersection of Rte. 73 and Rte. 42 in Wayne Township of Warren County.   Waynesville is built on the side of a hill overlooking the Little Miami River. 

Our library was founded in 1917 by Dr. Mary L. Cook, a Quaker physician.  Her portrait (right) hangs in the foyer of the library.

Our address and other pertinent information:

381 Old Stage Road
Waynesville, Ohio 45068

Phone #  513-897-4826
FAX #    513-897-9215

 Email # campbeka@oplin.org

Website Address:  http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/

Website Address for our Card Catalog:
http://catalog.mlcook.lib.oh.us/polaris/Search/default.aspx?ctx=3.1033.0.0.2

Website Address for the Ohioana Room:
http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/ohioana_roommary_l.htm 

HOURS

Monday ~ Thursday   9:00 AM ~ 9:00 PM
Friday    9:00 AM ~ 5:00 PM
Saturday   9:00 AM ~ 2:00 PM
Closed on Sunday

Want to learn more about Dr. Mary Leah Cook? Click on:
http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Dr.%20Mary%20Leah%20Cook_files/frame.htm

For more information about Waynesville, Ohio:
http://www.waynesvilleohio.com/ 

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