My thesis is done, sent to the binder for the hallowed MFA shelf. Even so, as I’m in Ohio for a family trip, I could not resist spending two days at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The building (doesn’t it look like it’s floating?) includes a museum on the lower level, the Ohio Preservation Office, and a wonderful library and archive. In the library, on the Cuyahoga County shelves, I found a carefully typed list of marriages between 1840-1855, which included marriages of three of my ancestors. (Scheuermann was misspelled Schnuruman, and Handrich was Hendrick, but I am sure it was them.)
In the museum portion, I enjoyed a replica of a 19th century carriage shop, and several examples of horse-drawn carriages.
Truth be told, I found a few minor glitches in my now-bound and printed thesis (male turkeys only gobble in the spring, not the fall), but I’m not losing sleep over it. A place to visit via the Internet is this Ohio History web site.