Category: Mohican

BRINKHAVEN – The Mohican Valley Trail Board has been officially reactivated after several years of dormancy, marking a new chapter for the organization that helped bring the iconic Bridge of Dreams to life nearly three decades ago.

The board was originally formed in 1996 by a horseman’s group out of Fredericktown, Ohio.

Several members of that group played a leading role in raising the funds to construct the Bridge of Dreams in Brinkhaven, which today stands as the one of the longest covered bridges in Ohio and a central feature of the Mohican Valley Trail.

In recent years, the board became inactive and was eventually deactivated by the Ohio Secretary of State’s office.

However, following meetings with the Marketing Director of the Knox County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Director of the Knox County Park District, efforts were undertaken to restore the board.

The Mohican Valley Trail Board has now been reactivated with the Secretary of State’s office and is once again recognized as an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Officers have been established to lead the renewed board:

• Chuck DeWitt, President
• Christopher Wyant (Brinkhaven mayor), Vice President
• Tami Ruhl (Knox County Public Health Department), Secretary
• Baihley White (Fiscal Officer for Brinkhaven and Brown Township), Treasurer
• Aden Yoder, Maintenance

With renewed leadership and nonprofit status, the Mohican Valley Trail Board is committed to continuing its mission of supporting, promoting, and improving the Mohican Valley Trail and the Bridge of Dreams for the benefit of residents, visitors, and future generations.

To find out more about supporting the trail, whether by donations or volunteer opportunities, please email mohicanvalleytrailboard@gmail.com

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According to The Scare Factor, Ohio is home to 144 haunted houses, with 11 added since last year. The website lists California as runner-up with 132 and then Illinois with 123.

Among local places, Akron’s Haunted Schoolhouse and Laboratory checks in at No. 5 on The Scare Factor’s rankings of best haunted haunts. Canton’s Factory of Terror follows at No. 6, with the Chippewa Lake Slaughterhouse and Mansfield’s Blood Prison at Nos. 7 and 8.

The scariest of the scary, according to the website, is Fear Columbus, followed by the Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati.

The site bases its rankings on places it has reviewed, visited or that are popular. Though it clearly ranks them numerically, it says, “This is not a ‘best of’ list.” Hmm, that’s kind of scary.

There are numerous attractions within driving distance offering everything from haunted hayrides to themed weekends and elaborate multi-house experiences. Todd Stumpf

The following is a list of some of the haunted places within a 30- to 45-minute drive of the area, depending on where you start:

Forest of Screams, Medina

1662 Medina Road (state Route 18), Medina, 3 miles west of I-71.

Dates: Weekends through Nov. 1.

Hours: Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. to midnight and Sundays from 7-10 p.m. (box office closes 30 minutes earlier each day).

Tickets: $35 Fridays and Saturdays and $32 Sundays.

Speed Pass: $45/$42 gets you in faster, not first.

Attractions: Haunted Hayride, Haunted Trail and Haunted House, all for one price.

Website: www.Forestofscreams.com.

Chippewa Lake Slaughterhouse

5665 Chippewa Lake Road, Chippewa Lake, 5 miles north of I-76/I-71 interchange.

Dates: Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 8.

Hours: 7:30 p.m. to midnight.

Tickets: $30 through Oct. 11, $32 Oct. 12 through Nov. 1 and $30 Nov. 8.

Attractions: “Hollywood-quality” sets and professional actors, 70,000 square feet of horror.

Website: www.Slaughterhouseohio.com.

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

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The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians were driven west by expanding European settler colonialism in the early 19th Century after calling the Northeast home for millennia. Now, the Wisconsin-based community is preparing to return to reignite its relationship with the homelands it’s missed for centuries.

“We traveled out east there to the homelands, and we found healing,” Wanonah Kosbab told WAMC. “So, we wanted to extend it to the rest of our people. And so, we started working together on how we could get our people back to the homeland so that they can start their healing journey as well and dance on the homelands and touch down where our ancestors were.”

Kosbab is a board member for the Homelands PowWow, a recognition of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians’ long history in the region that will take place on the grounds of the Darrow School in New Lebanon on Saturday and Sunday.

“The powwow is a gathering,” she explained. “It’s a celebration of people, of life, in this case, of land, and past stewards of that land, and current stewards of that land coming together, to share in community, to share meals, laughter, joy. It’s all about coming back together. And in this particular case, it’s important, because when we left them homelands, there was a lot of negative energy that was left behind. And so that negative energy just kind of sits there and stews, and it’s a stale energy. And so when we reconnect in a good way, we replace that negative energy with all of this good energy that we’re bringing by coming back together in community, in love this time.”

Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans member Ginger Stevens, who also sits on the powwow’s board, made her inaugural trip to the homelands – a region spanning…

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A Queensland school teacher who had a stash of more than 340 child abuse files had transformed into a ‘hyper-sexual’ gay paedophile after his 27-year marriage ended.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland.

Police retrieved files from four devices at his property, finding video footage of sexual acts committed on babies as young as two months old, bestiality, and written stories depicting child sex abuse.

One script involved a high school student engaging in sex acts with her male teacher in exchange for higher grades.

Olney is a former teacher and a navy veteran.

His lawyer Callan Cassidy told the court his client had a ‘relatively normal life’ before ending his marriage in 2017 and coming out as gay.

The court heard he then became involved in drugs and a number of hyper-sexual relationships.

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding, to an out gay man with a taste for bizarre haircuts and piercings.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland 

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding (pictured) 

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Philippine English fiction writer Greg Brillantes died at the age of 92 on a Friday, the last weekend of September, as a severe tropical storm was heading straight to the central islands of the archipelago.

His second daughter, Cecilia, perhaps named after the patron saint of music, was surely coming home after many years based stateside.

“Chi,” as she was called, was one of my students in English I at UP Manila four decades ago. She was part of a memorable, rowdy block of occupational therapy majors. Her father, often mentioned in class, was the renowned author of Faith, Love, Time, and Dr. Lazaro. That story, a staple in college syllabi introducing students to literature, tells the tale of a country doctor who learns a vital lesson about faith from his own son.

It wasn’t until after the first EDSA revolution that I got to work closely with Greg B., as he had once written his name in my pocket directory (***9507). He was an editorial consultant for Midweek magazine for six years, and I was among the staff writers. Of course, I’d read more of his work, aside from the aforementioned piece. There was The Distance to Andromeda, which made you never look at the night sky the same way again. And The Cries of Children on an April Afternoon in the Year 1957, an ode to adolescence in the province of Tarlac, although written in prose.

Greg also edited The Manila Review, a martial law era literary journal that came out more or less quarterly, where I first read Erwin Castillo’s The Watch of La Diane, as well as a sheaf of poems by the teenage poet Diana Gamalinda, who drowned in Vigan in 1978. The Review was also where I saw mind-blowing illustrations by the likes of…

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On Sept. 27, UMass Libraries hosted a talk at Amherst College featuring Rose Miron, author of the book “Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory” and Vice President of Research and Education at Northwestern’s Newberry Library.
With over 50 people in attendance, the talk centered around Miron’s work with the Munsee-Mohican Historical Committee, as well as the importance of indigenous archival activism.

Representatives from UMass Libraries began the event with a land acknowledgement of Western Massachusetts, built and founded on the unceded land of the Norwottuck and Pocumtuc indigenous tribes. Listeners were invited to learn more about Indigenous communities and the history of their land.

Originally located throughout the Housatonic River Valley in Massachusetts and the Hudson River Valley in New York, the Mohican tribe now resides in Stockbridge, Wisconsin after being forced to relocate in a post-Christian missionary era. Today, they are federally recognized as the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin, located over 1,000 miles from their original territory, according to Miron.

Miron describes Mohican work in archival preservation as a practice that began “long before European involvement.” Preservation efforts were largely managed by Mohican women.

“It’s very possible that they’ve always played an important role in history; it simply hasn’t always been recorded as such,” Miron said.

Miron’s book opens with the story of Bernice and Arvid Miller, two Mohican tribe members who collected government documents, original materials and hand-transcribed work in attempts to regain land and recover their history. After Arvid’s death in 1968, Bernice founded what is now the Arvid E. Miller Library Museum, which today houses the largest collection of Mohican documents and artifacts in the world.

Miron defines archival activism as the process of “collecting and mobilizing tribal archives, anchored around three key elements: access, sovereignty and new narratives.” These…

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A SPECIAL MEMORIAL — The Mohican Memorial Shrine, located in Loudonville was built with funds raised by more than 60,000 members of women’s clubs throughout Ohio. The shrine was erected to honor Ohioans who died fighting for this country’s freedom. — Contributed

WINTERSVILLE — Women’s clubs.

Those two words can often conjure up certain visions among those who do not understand.

The term may cause people to form images of ladies attending luncheons or serving tea, members chatting with one another or making social plans.

After all, these clubs were formed during the days when husbands worked and wives stayed home. The women were looking for something to do to fill their time, while trying to better their communities.

But a closer look into a woman’s club will show a far greater perspective into what these women can accomplish when uniting for a specific purpose.

PAST, PRESENT MEMBERS REMEMBER — Members of the Wintersville Woman’s Club have been visiting the memorial shrine for years, including a group who visited approximately a decade ago, including, from left, front, Tyra Timmons, Marjean Sizemore and Karen Hill; and back, Judy Ostrowsk, Mary Beth Allen and Beth Leland. — Contributed

And the outcome can be quite historic.

An idea for a shrine

The year was 1945.

World War II was coming to an end.

More than 420,000 American lives had been lost in the fight for freedom.

SISTERS VISIT SHRINE –– Members of the Wintersville Woman’s Club visit the shrine each year, including Mary Beth Allen, bottom left, who years ago went with her sister, Pat Daily to look up their uncle’s name in the Great Book, which lists the names…

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Designers Reveal Their Favorite Cozy Cabin Escapes Mohican Media | CompellingPhoto

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If you’re sad about summer ending and the cold weather beginning to creep in, take solace in knowing there’s a silver lining: cozy cabin season is upon us. Fall leaves, hot apple cider, oversized knits, spooky movie nights—while you can enjoy all these autumnal things at home, it’s so much better doing so in a beautifully decorated cabin that’s surrounded by trees and at least a 15-minute drive to the nearest town.

If you’re ready to start planning a weekend getaway before winter, we tapped a handful of interior designers to share their beloved cozy fall cabins for some travel inspiration. The list below reveals a select number of stunning getaways that’ll be just as beautiful and serene on the inside as the foliage on the outside. From the West Coast to the Midwest to the East Coast, check out these warm stays that’ll get you in the fall mood.

For more designer-approved travel destinations:

Hey Frame House in Lake Hartwell, Georgia

“I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at the Hey Frame House. This modern A-frame cabin is located on Lake Hartwell, about an hour outside of Atlanta, near the Georgia and South Carolina border. It’s the perfect secluded stay for a weekend getaway from the city, or even a few weeks as a home away from home. It’s a great place to escape to any time of the year, for swimming in the spring or summer, enjoying the foliage of all the trees and the fire pit in the fall, or even around the campfire in the winter.”

—Amber Guyton of Blessed Little Bungalow

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Barry O’Brien makes the calls, does the in-person meets – and keeps rolling out the one liners. He’s co-founded or launched and sold three media agencies – Atomic 212 was acquired by Publicis in December last year – and drawn swords with billionaire media moguls. He survived working with media agency doyen Harold Mitchell and “average” behaviour from blue chip advertiser clients. 

All of it, he says, has been grounded by engaging with people and building relationships that, for his part at least, are bankable. 

It’s the antithesis of a rapid automation and tech wave where self-service and efficient transactions are lead kpis for success, a point O’Brien readily agrees is the way of business. But he argues keeping some of the old school stuff – the traits often dismissed by digital natives – are what will ultimately differentiate individuals and business in a rapidly automated world.

When Atomic 212 was fighting for survival during the dark period O’Brien speaks of in 2018 – some holding company bosses at the time were licking their chops at the prospect of buying a strong agency asset at a panic price after it was hit with a wave of crises linked to former partner Jason Dooris. O’Brien says it was the calibre and depth of the relationships with clients – big ones – that kept them sticking with the business until it weathered the storm. 

“Our dark period was our dark period,” he says, reluctantly. “We had massive debt. We also had belief, we also had very good people and clients with understanding that backed us and we worked our way through it.”

A few years earlier when Dick Smith controversially ceased trading and former private equity owner, Anchorage Capital, faced much heat, it was media relationships that helped the agency navigate through millions in liabilities that…

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