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<< News >> Ohio Historical Society Joins with Regional Organizations - Manage or Staff Prem

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 30 July 2009  Page Views: 1827

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Three of Ohio's foremost earthworks, including two that are soon to be nominated as World Heritage Sites, will be open to the public more hours thanks to new operating arrangements with two regional organizations.
The Ohio Historical Society will enter into management agreements with Arc of Appalachia Preserve System for Serpent Mound in Adams County and Fort Hill in Highland County and with the Dayton Society of Natural History for Fort Ancient in Warren County.

In the Ohio Historical Society network of 58 historic sites and museums 37 sites will now be operated through management agreements between the Society and a local organization or government entity. The Society intends to operate a total of 47 sites under management agreements.

"Management agreements have become increasingly important because of the combination of long-term underinvestment by the state in the Ohio Historical Society and the recent pressure of state budget cuts," Society Executive Director William K. Laidlaw, Jr. said. "We are looking at this model to operate the majority of our historic sites and museums to increase access to historic sites and museums. It should provide for increased community support and enable the site to continue to be a source of community pride."

Under such agreements, the Ohio Historical Society typically provides an annual financial subsidy to a local organization to help underwrite the costs of day-to-day site operations, which primarily includes providing visitor services, educational and interpretive programs and basic maintenance. The management group keeps income from admissions, program fees and rentals. The Society will continue to provide major maintenance and professional resources as well as administer capital improvement projects. Managed sites remain a vital part of the OHS network of historic sites and museums.

"We selected the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System and Dayton Society of Natural History because of their experience in managing archaeological properties and museums and their strong commitment to preservation," Laidlaw said. "By teaming up with both these organizations, these great Native American earthworks can be open more hours and provide more educational programs and special events."

For more information, call 800.283.8904 or visit Ohio Historical Society.

Note: Longer opening hours planned for Ohio Sites under new Local Management/Staffing System.

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Early Ohioans tracked solstices by Andy B on Wednesday, 23 December 2009
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Early Ohioans tracked solstices

The first full moon of December, which came on Wednesday this year, is known as the Cold Moon.

Luckily, it occurred while the Guernsey County Fine Arts and Crappie Fishing Society was holding its late-fall rendezvous on the shore of Seneca Lake. Each night during the rendezvous, we sat around a huge wood fire telling lies and gazing at the silvery moon.

But if you missed the first full moon of the month, you'll have a chance to see a second one. It's called a blue moon, and it will come on the 31st -- New Year's Eve, the final night of 2009.

A blue moon happens so seldom that that's where we get the saying "once in a blue moon."

Another mystical thing that will happen this month is the winter solstice at 12:47 p.m. on the 21st. The most significant thing about that day (at least for me) is that, after it occurs, the amount of daylight will begin to grow each day. Daylight has been decreasing since the summer solstice in June.

On the winter solstice, the sun seems to pause momentarily and then start to come back to us in North America.

The winter solstice was an important event in the lives of ancient Americans, and, believe me, they knew exactly when it happened. I imagine they felt comforted because they knew then that spring would come again.

In Ohio, we know that the Hopewell and Fort Ancient cultures knew when the solstice happened because they left behind earthworks and other features that point to the sunrises or sunsets on the solstice.

Bradley Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, said two of those features are at the Fort Ancient earthworks in Warren County.

"There are two so-called stone serpent effigies in the field below the earthworks. One of the stone effigies is lined up to the summer-solstice sunrise, and the other lines up to winter-solstice sunrise," he said.

Kim Schuette, spokeswoman for the Historical Society, said, "We are going to have an event called Light up the Serpent at Serpent Mound."

Folks will light up the giant snake effigy in Adams County with luminarias, she said. "We will surround the serpent effigy from 4 p.m. to

6 p.m. on Dec. 20."

The head of the serpent points to the summer-solstice sunset, Schuette said. "One of the coils in the serpent's tail points to the winter-solstice sunrise.

"Hundreds of luminarias around the serpent is kind of magical."

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