Ohio History Connection

Members, you’re invited! On June 18 we’re celebrating summer and our members at our Annual Meeting, Midsummer at the Center: Double Feature! Join us for updates on our major projects, highlights from our moving-image collection, and a reception with light bites and beverages for purchase. We’ll end the evening with a screening of “The Land of Can-Do,” a 1953 documentary of Ohio. We’ll supply the popcorn—you just bring yourself for a good time with other members and friends.

Visit https://ow.ly/LGTT50Z8fSP for more details and to register for this free event.

🔍 Museum Mystery Monday Reveal! 🔎
Last week’s mystery item was an ice shaver!

Patented in 1893 by Philadelphia’s Enterprise Manufacturing Company, this cast-iron ice shaver was used to make shaved ice, or “snowball” desserts. To use it, the ice shaver was gripped by its handle and dragged across a block of ice, where razor-like teeth scraped off ice shavings and collected them in the attached cup. These ice shavings could then be scooped into a bowl and drizzled with fruit juice or syrup. Yum!

Congratulations to Jennifer Myers, this week’s winner! Send us a DM to claim your prize.

Did we stump you? A new mystery drops next Monday — stay tuned!

Join us for Speaking of History... Ice Age Mammals of Ohio at the Ohio History Center, June 20 at 1 p.m. Discover a world when mastodons, mammoths and even a beaver the size of a black bear called this place home. Learn about the fascinating creatures of the last Ice Age, including the dire wolf and one of the largest land carnivores of the Pleistocene.

Get up close with fossils and casts, and explore what made Ohio’s Ice Age wildlife so remarkable.

Included with museum admission (free for Ohio History Connection members), no registration required.

This program is part of Ohio Outdoors: Exploring Ohio’s Natural Resources, June's theme during America 250-Ohio's celebration of our state's heritage.

America 250-Ohio is celebrating the Semiquincentennial with more than 150 picnics across the state this July, including several at Ohio History Connection sites!

Find a picnic near you and join the fun at https://america250-ohio.org/picnic/

Ohio's Homecoming & Picnic program is sponsored by:
Cenovus
Worthington Enterprises
Worthington Steel
Marzetti