New Exhibit and Large Book Signing at Heritage Hall

On Saturday, December 10, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, the Wyandot Popcorn Museum and the Marion County Historical Society will present the opening of a new exhibit and book signing by over a dozen Ohio authors. Museum admission is free for the afternoon and there will be close-up magic performed by Dick Haines of the Haines Family Circus and Cathy Brake will be serving up pies and cookies in the auditorium.

For the first time, visitors will be able to view the all-new exhibit on the Brown family and their contributions to the snack food industry as it is unveiled.

Authors from Northern and Central Ohio will be featured at the book signing including but not limited to the following:

• Frank Kuron, author of Thus Fell Tecumseh, about the death of Tecumseh  and asking the reader to help deduce how this great Shawnee Chief fell at the Battle of the Thames in 1813 and by whose hand?
• David Bush, professor of anthropology at Heidelberg University, author of I Fear I Shall Never Get Off This Island, a fascinating study uncovering the prisoner of war experience at Johnson's Island, a Civil War Era prison which housed Confederate officers.
• Kim Mohr, author of Echoes along the Sandusky; which features more than 2000 names and places from Seneca, Wyandot and Crawford County.
• Two Images of America authors; Tom Hill, author of the Wyandot County and Upper Sandusky books; and Stuart Koblentz author of OSU Neighborhoods, Marion and Marion County.
• Scott Fields, formerly of LaRue, author of fiction novels, The Road Back Home and The last Days of Summer.

Other authors present to autograph their books include Willis Thomas, The Schools of Marion County, Archeological History of Marion County, Indian Heritage of Marion County; The Pool of Maheetah, Indian Trails, Marion County, Ohio, by Kensel Clutter – Willis C Thomas; Kensel Clutter author of Map of the Sandusky Plains and Owl Creek Trail; Randy Winland editor of Marion Activity book and Timeline of Marion City Schools; Trella Romine, editor of many MCHS publications and author of Day Before Yesterday; Carroll Neidhardt author of several books on local folklore; Gary Gandee author of Gandee Family History and Gandee Bakery;  Maxine Marshall author and editor of a multitude of Marion County genealogical publications; Betty Bennington, author of Doors, A Collection of Poems; Victoria Endicott author of On River Road and Marilyn Schraff, Growing Up In Appalachia.

Many more books are also available for purchase such as Haunted Marion by Josh Simpkins; Tales from the Sage of Salt Rock by the late Judge Charlton Myers; The Life and Loves of Catherine Loudenslager by the late Catherine Loudenslager; Jim Thorpe and the Oorang Indians by Robert Whitman; There’s No School Like and Old School by Donna Lawrence and many more.

For more information, visit www.marionhistory.com.