Spring Summer 2024

OOPS! | 50+ YRS Richard Bloom

HISTORY OF OHIO | 50+ YRS Ed Lentz

Back in those colonial days when a revolution was brewing, there was not any Dr. Spock about to show folks just how to raise this new nation. There was no wet nurse nor midwife to show the way, just a collection of folks all with their own ideas about freedom. It was going to be all rough and ready, learn as you go and do not repeat screw-ups. It would be a by fits and starts experience and hope for the best. Geez, parenting has not changed at all in almost 250 years! There would be goofs, bloopers, blunders and mistakes along the way, some serious some not so. SERIES I 4/22 - Advantage Native Americans: In 1791 General Arthur St. Clair led more than 1,000 soldiers into the wilderness to chastise the Native Americans under Blue Jacket and Little Turtle. 25% of the entire US Army never walked out. 4/29 - No Cheap Drunk: President George Washington’s attempt to raise money by taxing whiskey did not go down smoothly in Pennsylvania. 5/6 - Cry Me a River: The white man’s greed for Native American lands sent five tribes packing for Oklahoma - and oil. 5/13 - A Storm’s’ Comin’: President James Buchanan called secession illegal, but did nothing legal to stop it. 5/21 - Up in Smoke: A Union officer just happened to find General Robert E. Lee’s plan to invade Maryland wrapped around three Stogies. So much for surprise. 6/3 - The Fence Wasn’t Made of Picketts: General Robert E. Lee was convinced a thrust by 15,000 men under General George Pickett on the third day at Gettysburg would win the day. All that stood in their way was a mile of open cannon ground and a roadside fence. 552513 A 10-11 am M 4/22-6/3 (skip 5/27) Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $30 O 6 sessions SERIES II 6/17 - No Uniform Justice: President Teddy Roosevelt erred miserably when he dishonorably discharged 167 African American soldiers after they were railroaded by the folks of Brownsville, Texas. 6/24 - A Most Grievous Assumption: A Pearl Harbor radio operator picked up the incoming planes on his scope and he, like everyone else, assumed they were friendlies. 7/1 - Shame on You FDR: Between 1942 and 1945, Executive Order 9066 defied everything America stood for, as folks of Japanese descent were herded into internment camps. 7/8 - Ho, Ho, Ho!: Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh twice approached the U.S, nearly 30 years apart, to discuss aid and assistance for his people. Our no was mighty costly. 7/15 - The Whole Hog: President JFK’s approval of the Bay of Pigs invasion would haunt him throughout his presidency. 7/22 - His Hands Weren’t Tied: President Jimmy Carter failed to free the Iranian hostages - and would fail to win a second term. 552514 A 10-11 am M 6/17-7/22 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $30 O 6 sessions

Ed Lentz has been an historian of America and of Central Ohio for the past 50 years. He holds degrees from Princeton University and The Ohio State University. Last Fall we started a talk on Ohio history about it being a pleasant place and its earliest residents. These next five parts continue the history of Ohio. Advanced registration is required. THE NEW NATION The Settling of Ohio and Native American War on the Frontier, Ohio becomes a state, The War of 1812 and After, Coaches Canals and Railroads, Banks, Business and Social Reform. 552530 A 10-11 am F 4/12 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $5 THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES Why a Civil War? Whigs, Know Nothings, Democrats and Republicans, the Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad, Ohio has saved the Union, The Long Political, Economic and Social Power, Seven (or Eight) Presidents, Steel, Oil and Coal, Immigrants and Cities, The Innovators: Edison, the Wrights and Many Others. 552532 A 10-11 am F 6/14 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $5 A TIME OF TRANSITION The Progressive Impulse in Ohio, The Roaring Twenties: Flappers, Fol-de-Rol and the KKK, The Depressing, Thirties, The War to Save the World. 552533 A 10-11 am F 7/12 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $5 RUSTBELT & REVIVAL The Golden Triangle and the Rise of the West, The Rebuilding of Ohio, A Lot of Change OR Not Much Change at All, Where We Are Today, What Has It All Meant. 552534 A 10-11 am F 8/9 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $5 Legacy of the Civil War. 552531 A 10-11 am F 5/10 Senior Center Bldg 1, Rm 104 $5 OHIO LEADS THE NATION

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