THOMAS C BUSBEY
Thomas C. Busbey was born in the town of Romney, in Hampshire County, Virginia, on March 13, 1815. He came to Harmony Township with his family that same year and resided in the area the rest of his life. He started teaching school at the age of nineteen, and continued to teach in Clark County for 35 years. Mr. Busbey was united in marriage on May 24, 1838, to Anna Bodkin, a daughter of Richard Bodkin, who was a pioneer of Ohio. Ten children were born to this marriage and included William, L. W., Charles S., T. A., Louise, Angelina, Hattie, Mary, and Daniel W. A remarkable circumstance connected this family in that nine of the ten children have been school teachers. Mr. Busbey enlisted as a "squirrel hunter" to defend Cincinnati against the Kirby Smith raid. Mr. Busbey was elected township treasurer of Harmony Township; served for seven or eight years as township clerk; and served for ten years as a member of the Republican Central Committee.
He was born on a farm in Franklin County, Ohio, on February 15, 1855 He was the son of Josiah O. and Nancy Smith. Dr. Smith received his early education in the public school system. After a period of time studying medicine privately, Dr. Smith entered Starling Medical College, of Columbus, in 1875. He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1878, and started a practice in South Vienna soon after graduation. On June 4, 1879, Dr. Smith married Ida May Ellinger, and they had one daughter, Alena Ruth. Dr. Smith was part owner of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company from the company’s creation in 1904 until he was bought out in 1907 by John Goodfellow, one of his partners in the business. Dr. Smith was a member of the Vienna I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 345, a member of the South Vienna Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the Beaver Valley Golf Club. Dr. Smith died while working in his office in South
WILLIAM C. RAY He was born on January 30, 1877, in Vinton County, Ohio, the son of Jesse and Josephine Ray, of New Carlisle, Ohio. He received a common education, and followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a farmer. W. C. was married to Mabel Robbins on August 31, 1902, and the couple had two children, a daughter Marjorie, and a son, Palmer. In 1907, W. C. gave up farming and went into the grocery business. He owned a grocery in New Carlisle for two years, one in Hilliard for one year, one in Canal Winchester for two years, and one in Columbus for two years. Finally, around 1915, W. C. Settled in South Vienna and opened a grocery. In May of 1920, he became postmaster of South Vienna, and held that post until his death on July 2, 1951. During all of these years, he was not only the postmaster, but also operated his grocery store. He was a member of the Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of the Pythias, and he was a member of the South Vienna Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dr. Long was born Sept. 22, 1897, near Blanchester, Ohio, the son of Benjamin and Rose Long. He obtained his degree in medicine at Eclectic College, in Cincinnati. He served a year of internship at Springfield City Hospital, beginning in 1921. After completing his term as an intern, he continued his study of medicine in Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Dr. Long established an office in South Vienna with Dr. Edgar Smith. He practiced with this physician until Dr. Smith’s death, at which time he assumed
his practice. Dr. Long was a member of the Clark County Medical Society, and also a member of the Ohio and American Medical Associations and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Clark County Sanitarium. He was also a member of the Springfield Country Club, Springfield Polo Club, and the Van Dyke Club. He was a 32d degree Mason and was a member of Fielding Lodge, F. And A. M. at South Charleston, and at Columbus the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and Accepted Order of Noble Mystic Shrine. He helped initiate Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops in South Vienna, and served on the village council in 1947 and 1948. He later served as a member of the village zoning board. He was an avid hunter and fisherman, and was the first physician in Clark
County to own and fly an airplane. His wife was Mary, and they had two children, Mary Joyce (Joy), who was born in 1937, and Edgar Marlin Saylor (Happy), who was born in 1938. Dr. Long died of a heart attack in December, 1950.
Dr. Doyle was born August 2, 1907, in Clark County, Ohio. He graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1925, from Ohio State University, with a bachelor of arts degree, in 1930, and received his doctor of medicine degree from Creighton University, in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1934. He served an internship at the old City Hospital, now Community Hospital, in 1934 and 1935, then practiced family medicine in South Vienna from 1935 until his retirement in 1987. He was a member of Phi Rho Sigma National Medical Fraternity, and also maintained memberships in the Ohio and Clark County chapters of the American Medical Associations. He
was a member of the American Academy of Family Practice from 1949 until his retirement. He was on the active medical staffs at Community Hospital and Mercy Medical Center until his retirement, and was a member of the Clark County Board of Education for nearly twenty-five years. Dr. Doyle served as a director of the former First State Bank, in South Charleston and as an advisory board member following the bank’s acquisition by Society Bank. He owned a 300 acre dairy farm, and received an Ohio Wildlife Conservation Award in 1968 for the numerous conservation practices he practiced. He was married to Edna Schultz for fifty years, and had one son, James Neal. He passed away March 20, 1990, in Community Hospital from complications resulting from a
fall in his home in South Vienna.
Earl was born September 21, 1911, in Scioto County, Ohio, the son of William Sampson and Stella Agnes (Irwin) Shoemaker. He had four brothers, Ralph, Ray, Floyd, and Frank (Casey) Shoemaker, and three sisters, Celia Shoemaker, Esther Colvin, and Edna Shaw. He was a graduate of Selma High School, then operated a dairy near Pitchin, Ohio from 1933 until 1940.
In 1940, he purchased a grocery store in South Vienna, which he operated until his retirement in 1975. He was a member of the United Church of South Vienna and Fielding Lodge Number 192 (F&AM). He also had served as a member of the Board of Directors of Security National Bank. He built the Shoemaker Shopping Plaza in South Charleston after a fire had destroyed practically the entire block. He was married to Mary Emily (Levens) in 1934. She was born on February 24, 1912 in South Charleston, Ohio, and they had two sons, Ronald E. and William E. (who died in infancy), and one daughter, Marilyn Kay. They lived in South Vienna until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1988, and he died on July 3, 1990.
Kenny was born in 1914, in Vincennes, Indiana, the son of Charles A Miller and Ada B. (Hopkins) Miller. Kenny has one sister, Edna Mae Spiers. He graduated from Springfield High School in 1930, and soon after started to work as a tool and die machinist. He worked for several companies in the Dayton - Springfield area, including SPECO, Robbins & Myers, White Motors, General Motors - Vandalia, WACO Aircraft, and other small machine shops. Kenny then started Miller Bookkeeping and Tax Service in South Vienna in 1972 and operated it until 1998. He also served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a member of the village council of South Vienna for twelve years, was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department, and was instrumental in bringing Emergency Medical Service to the South Vienna Area. Kenny is a life member of the V.F.W., a member of the #397 Eagles, and a member of the United Church of South Vienna. Donna was born in Green County, Ohio, October 20, 1919, the daughter of Raymond Kunkle and Arrella (Sparrow) Kunkle. She has five brothers, Ellsworth, Millard, Jack, Windall, and Philip Kunkle, and one sister, Frannie Hanks. She served as a member of the Board of Public Affairs from 1987 until 2006,was treasurer and vice-president of the Madonna of the Trail Club, and a member of the V.F.W. She was also a member of the United Church of South Vienna. Kenny and Donna were married in 1936, and have three sons; Raymond, born in 1936, Melvin, born in 1938, and John, born in 1941. Kenny and Donna started the first group foster home for mentally handicapped children in the state of Ohio in 1972 in South Vienna, and for their efforts he received the Foster Father Governor Award in 1979. They then retired from thisline of work in 1980. Kenny died in February, 2007, and Donna followed in April, 2011.
Fred Sheerin was born in South Charleston, Ohio, on Sept. 15, 1915, and Marvine Sheerin was born in Pleasant Township, Ohio, on November 5, 1917. They were married on January 16, 1937, and they had five children: Phyllis Dove, Bonita Sheerin, Stephen Sheerin, Nathan Sheerin, and Timothy Sheerin. Fred graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1933, and was a foreman at Navistar for 36 years until his retirement in 1975. Fred served on the village council from 1956-1964 and 1969-1972, and he was mayor of the village from 1964-1975 and 1972- 1974. He was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department, and served for a time as assistant chief. He was also a member of the St. Charles Church in South Charleston, Ohio. Fred died on April 28, 1998. Marvine graduated from Catawba High School in 1935, and was a housewife and acting postmaster of the South Vienna Post Office from 1964-1966. She served on the village council from 1974-1986, and was an original member and co-chairman of the Corn Festival Committee. She was a member of the St. Charles Catholic Church in South Charleston, and a member and Noble Grand of the PurityRebekah Lodge in South Vienna. Marvine died in December 0f 2000.
Ralph Phares was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 6, 1921, and Rose Phares was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 5, 1921. They were married on January 3, 1942 and they have eight children; Sue Dill, Doxie Phares, Marsha Newman, James Phares, file://localhost/Users/carolynshoemaker/Desktop/Scan%20164.jpegRalph Phares Jr., Mike Phares, Randy Phares, and Charles Phares. Ralph graduated from Christiansburg Jackson High School in1939, and attended Ohio State University. He was a farmer, and a custodian and bus driver for the Northeastern School District,
and he retired from Navistar after 20 years. He was a member of the United Church of South Vienna, a member of the South Vienna Board of Public Affairs, and a firefighter and chief of the Harmony Township Fire Department. He was also a special friend at South Vienna School and a member of the Ohio Lyric Theater. He died in September of 1997. Rose also graduated from Christiansburg Jackson High School in 1939, and was a housewife for most of her life. She was a member of the United Church of South Vienna, a dispatcher for the Harmony Township Fire Department, a special friend at South Vienna School, and an original member of the Corn Festival Committee. Rose died on June 21, 2008.
Tom was born March 9, 1921, in Shadyside, Ohio, the son of James and Agnes Donkin.He had four sisters, Robina (Donkin) Jack, Barbara (Donkin) Morgan, Mary (Donkin) Vierheller, and Margaret (Donkin) Morgan. He also had three brothers, George, James, and William Donkin.He graduated from Shadyside High School in 1939, was a Navy veteran of World War II, and a graduate of Ohio University with a Bachelor’s degree of Commerce, in 1949. He moved to Clark County in 1949, and was a two-time mayor of South Vienna, serving in 1954-55 and 1962-63. He retired from International Harvester, as a Time Study Supervisor, a position he held for twenty-eight years, and also served as one of the first “Special Friends” of South Vienna School. Tom was a member of the United Church of South Vienna and has been a deacon, Sunday School teacher, and church treasurer, as well as chairman of the board and youth group leader. He was one of the leaders who helped unite the United Church of South Vienna and the United Methodist Church of South Vienna. He passed away May 24, 2002.
Alice was born in 1926, in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of George Washington Schultz and Beatrice Amelia Schultz. Alice has five siblings, including two sisters, Ellen Rae Schultz and Judith (Schultz) Light. She also has three brothers, Charles W., Nelson, and William P. Schultz. She graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1944 and soon after started to school at Ohio University. She graduated in 1948 with a degree in elementary education. She taught school in
Nelsonville, Ohio, from 1948 - 1949, and then in Springfield, Ohio, from 1949 through 1953. In 1962, Alice started teaching in the Northeastern School District. She taught at Plattsburg Elementary, and later at South Vienna Middle School until 1984, when she retired. She is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, and has held many positions within the church, including deacon, Sunday school teacher for many years, member of the choir, benevolence treasurer, and youth group les\ader. She is also a member of the Dorcas Circle of the United Church. She was also involved with the Brownies and Girl Scouts, as a leader, and also served on the official board of the Girl Scouts. Tom and Alice were married in 1948, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth Anne (Donkin)
Thomas Flarida was born in Springfield, Ohio, on August 16, 1924, the son of George andHelen (Tetrick) Flarida. He was married to his wife Joan for 55 years and they had four children: Joel Flarida, Marianne Mitchell, Gloria Tiemann, and Robert Flarida. Thomas retiredfrom Ohio Bell Telephone Company in 1982, after 36 years as an engineer. He was a member of the village council from 1954 until 1957, and was village mayor from 1957 through 1961. He was a member of St. Johns Lutheran Church in Springfield, a member and former trustee of the Clark County Park District.He was a past president of Tecumseh Trail Blazers Volks march Club, and was a World War II United States Army veteran, serving with the signal corps. He diedSeptember 4, 1997, in Springfield’s Community Hospital following a seven month
Steve Yeoman was born in Harmony Township, Ohio 0n June 22, 1925, and Joan was born in South Vienna, Ohio on October 17, 1928 and they had two children; Rodney Yeoman and Roxanne Yeoman. Steve graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1943. He was a farmer for five years, was owner operator of a wholesale poultry and egg business in South Vienna for eighteen years, then worked at Navistar for 20 ½ years. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge in South Vienna for over fifty years, and during this time he held every office within the lodge, including Noble Grand. He was a member of the United Church of South Vienna where he held the positions of trustee and finance committee chairman, and he was also advertising chairman for the Corn Festival Committee. Joan graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1946, then worked at Wren’s Department Store for two years. After that she worked for Dr. E. H. Long, in South Vienna, for two years, then worked as a secretary for the Northeastern School District for thirty years. She was a member of the United Church of South Vienna where she was the organist for forty years. She was also a member of the Dorcas Circle and was a board member. Joan was a member of the Rebekah Lodge where she held the position of Noble Grand. She was also treasurer of the Corn Festival Committee. She died August 16, 2003 and he followed on April 8, 2006.
Howard Runyan was born in Dayton, Ohio on March 15, 1930,and Charlotte was born in Springfield, Ohio, on January 26, 1933.
They were married in 1957, and have one daughter, Debbie Korab. Howard is a graduate of Plattsburg High School (1948).
He retired from Navistar in 1982, after 32 years, and he also worked for the Village of South Vienna Board of Public Affairs
for 34 years as the Maintenance Supervisor and Sewer Superintendent. Howard was a member of the United Church of
South Vienna, and the IOOF Vienna Lodge #345, where he has held the positions of Noble Grand, Vice Grand, Financial Secretary, and Trustee. He was also a long-time member of the Corn Festival Committee, and was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department. Charlotte is a graduate of Springfield South High School, and was formerly employed by Ohio Thermometer Company, Shoemaker’s Super Valu, The Kiln Shed, South Vienna School, and the Clark County Board of Elections. She is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, and the Little Miami Lodge #379. She is active in the Dorcas Circle, United Church of South Vienna, where she has held several offices. Charlotte resides in South Vienna, and Howard died on Feb. 1, 2012.
Roger Runyan was born in Springfield, Ohio, on March 3, 1935, and Suzanne (Rockfield) Runyan was born in Springfield,
Ohio, on Sept. 8, 1935. They were married on December 21, 1955, and they have four children: Doug Runyan, Dr. Tom
Runyan, Jane Schmid, and Robert Runyan. Roger is a 1953 graduate of Northeastern High School and attended Wittenberg
University in 1953-1954. He served in the United States Army from 1955-1957, then retired from Navistar in 1997, after forty
years of service. He was then employed part-time by the Village of South Vienna and by South Vienna School for several years.
Roger is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, where he has held the positions of Deacon and Trustee. He was the chairman of the Corn Festival Parade from its very beginning until he retired from the position because of health reasons. He coached girls basketball at Northeastern for 11 years and also spent time as assistant baseball coach. He was the scorekeeper for Northeastern boys basketball from 1976 until about 2008. He was an active member in the Northeastern Boosters Club, and he also coached little league baseball for many years. Suzanne is also a 1953 graduate of Northeastern High School, and a 1956 graduate of the Miami Valley School of Nursing. She retired from Springfield Community Hospital in 1996, after 30 years, then worked casual call for the hospital for a few years. Suzanne was an active member of The United Church of South Vienna until her death in 2008. Roger continued to live in South Vienna until he died in March, 2017.
Ron Shoemaker was born in Springfield, Ohio, on November 9, 1936, and Carolyn (Rockfield) Shoemaker was born in Plattsburg, Ohio, on August 17, 1938. They were married on September 7, 1958, in Plattsburg, Ohio, and they are the parents of five children; Linda Schwitzgable, Rolland Shoemaker, Kenneth Shoemaker, Nancy Keith, and Bill Shoemaker. Ron graduated from Northeastern High School in 1954, and from Bowling Green State University in 1958. He was a member of the United States Army National Guard from 1959-1965. He went to work in the family business, Shoemaker’s Super Valu, in 1958, and has been involved as a
partner in the following businesses since that time; Shoemaker’s Super Valu in South Vienna, Shoemaker’s Market in South
Charleston, Ron and Jack’s Short Stop Convenience Stores in Russells Point and Marion, Shoemaker’s Super Valu in Greenfield, and Shoemaker’s Hardware and NAPA Auto Parts in South Charleston. Ron is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, and was a member of the South Vienna Kiwanis Club from its organization in 1966 until it disbanded in 2009. He was scorekeeper for the Northeastern softball team for four years, and
was a member of the Board of Trustees at Clark Technical College from1984-1987. Ron was also scoutmaster for Troop 6 in South Vienna for several years. Carolyn is a 1956 graduate of Northeastern High School and attended Springfield Business School until she obtained a job in the credit department at Sears Roebuck and Co. Shortly after her marriage she became an employee of Shoemaker’s Super Valu and was either a full-time or part-time employee until the
business closed in 2010. She is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, where she has served as a deacon. She was also a member of the flower committee for fifty years. She has also served as a 4H leader and Cub Scout leader when her children were involved in these activities. Ron and Carolyn presently live just outside of the village of Plattsburg.
Warren Smith was born on November 13, 1944, in Springfield, Ohio, the son of Russell and Mary (Rittenhouse) Smith. Warren had two brothers, Russell Smith and Richard Smith. Donna Smith was born on November 10, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Williamson. Richard was a salesman, and for a time operated a used automobile lot in South Vienna. Elizabeth was a secretary. Donna has two brothers, John and Mike Williamson. Warren and Donna were married in 1966, and they have two children, Amy Etters, born in 1969, and Gregory Smith, born in 1973. Warren graduated from Northeastern High School in 1962, and went to work for the Kissell Company shortly thereafter. In 1965 he left the Kissell Company and took a job at Miller Printing as an offset pressmanprinter, where he worked until his retirement in 2013. Warren has been a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department since 1963, and served as chief of the department from 1981 until 2009. He has also served as a member of the village council of South Vienna since 1970, and for a time was president of the council. He has been a member of the United Church of South Vienna, where he has held the positions of usher, trustee, and member of the board of managers.. He has also served as a committee member of the Boy Scouts of America, and as a baseball and softball coach. Donna Smith graduated from Northeastern High School in 1965, and soon went to work for Sears. In 1969, she quit her job to raise her family, then went back to work in 1986 as a customer service representative for Springfield Community Hospital, a position she held until her retirement in 2013. She has served as a council member of the Village of South Vienna since 1988, and was an original member of the South Vienna Corn Festival Committee. She remained a member of this committee until 1986. She has been an active member of the United Church of South Vienna, where she has held positions on the board of managers and the music and worship committee. Donna was the junior choir director and a member of the adult choir. She has been a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department since 1974, and served as a dispatcher until the position was eliminated, and as a member of the fire auxiliary. She also spent time as a special friend at South Vienna School.
was born in Springfield, Ohio, on June 29, 1813. He was the son of John Lingle, who came to Springfield at a very early day. Huldah Laird was born May 7,
1816, on the “old” Scott farm, near Springfield, the daughter of David Laird. The Doctor and Huldah were united in marriage on April 23, 1837, and they had three children; Melissa was born Sept. 23, 1838; Tabitha (wife of Joseph Clima) was born October 26, 1842; and Henry C. was born in November, 1844. Dr. Lingle studied medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and commenced the practice of medicine in Vienna in 1836. He was elected Township Treasurer for twelve years, and was also elected Justice of the Peace of Harmony Township in 1847. He was Captain of a State militia company when we had problems with the “solid south”, and served as a “squirrel hunter”, and was in the Morgan raid. When the cholera epidemic made its appearance in the village of
Vienna in 1850, Dr. And Mrs. Lingle opened their house for the sick, worked with the sick and dying, and did all that it was possible for them to do. Dr. Lingle died December 8, 1878.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS
William T. Harris was born in Clark County, Ohio, on September 17, 1826. He was brought up on a farm, and continued to farm until he was 45 years old, when he quit farming and moved to Vienna and commenced mercantile life in 1871. He was the leading merchant in town, and had a considerable stock of drygoods and groceries such as is usually kept in a country store. He was married to Mary C. Forshee on November 19, 1848, and they had four children. His wife died in January, 1861, and he married his second wife, Rosanna McGarry (nee Marsh) in March 1863. The second marriage produced two more children; Oliver B. and Manville R. Mr. Harris served two terms as Justice of the Peace in Harmony Township, was an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a leading member of the Christian Church of Vienna.
FREEMAN V. HARTMAN
Freeman V. Hartman was born in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio, on February 28, 1834. He was married in November, 1851, to Catharine Dynes, a daughter of George Dynes, an old settler in Harmony Township. They had three daughters; Mary E.(wife of George F. Tavener), Elizabeth (wife of J. M. Olinger), and Jennie R. (Wife of David H. Campbell). Catharine died on August 25, 1865, and Mr. Hartman was married to his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Keyes (nee Dynes - a sister to his first wife), on July 11, 1880, at Springfield, Ohio. He was elected Township Clerk for seven terms, was appointed a Deputy United States Marshal in 1880, took the census of Harmony Township, and was a member of the Republican Central Committee of Clark County for ten years.
Dana was born in 1925, in South Vienna, Ohio, the son of Charles and Hazel Stites. He has two brothers, Everett G. and Max E. Stites. Dana graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1943, and soon after served his country in World War II in the United States Army. He received the Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star, and 3 battle stars. After the war, he went to work at International Harvester Company, where he was a tool and die maker foreman. This is a position he would hold until his retirement. Dana was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department from 1942 until he retired from the department in 2006, and was chief of that department from 1962 until 1971. He was also a council member in the village of South Vienna from 1955 until 1964. He was an active member of the United Church of South Vienna, where he held the positions of deacon, trustee, Sunday School superintendent, Sunday school teacher, and was choir director for twenty-five years. He was also a member of Fielding Lodge FAAM, the London Council RUSM, Adoniram Chapter RAM, and Eastern Star. Lauranell was born in 1926, in Springfield, Ohio, the daughter of Glenn and Goldie Shields. She has one sister, Helen Shields, and one brother, Martin Shields. She graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1945, and then started her career as a bookkeeper and payroll clerk. She held positions at the Farm Bureau Coop Association for five and one-half years, Bauer Brothers Company for ten and one-half years, and Clark State Community for 11 years. She was billing clerk for the South Vienna Sewer and Water Department for five years, and was an active member of the United Church of South Vienna for over fifty years. She served as church treasurer for over twenty years, and has been president of the church’s women’s group, president of the County U.C.C. Women’s Group, and building fund treasurer for the UCC. She was also been a member of the Anna Gilbert Chapter OES for 48 years. Dana and Lauranell were married in 1949, and have one son, Thomas G., who was born in 1958. They were residents of South Vienna until their deaths; Dana on October 18, 2014, and Laura Nell on August 8, 2015.
Pete was born October 19, 1910, in Springfield, Ohio, the son of William and Mary A. (Pierson) Bailey. He was a retired employee of the Department of Transportation for the State of Ohio, and he also drove a school bus for the Northeastern School District for several years. He was a past chief of the Harmony Township Fire Department and was recognized for 37 years of service to the local fire department and the Clark County Fire Fighters Association. He was a thirty-five year active member and Past Grand of Vienna 345 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past Grand Marshal of the Corn Festival in South Vienna, and was involved in numerous civic activities in the village. He was married to Naomi L. (Merritt) for 49 years. She was born in South Vienna January 14, 1910, was a life long resident of the village and was a graduate of Wittenberg University. She taught school for 35 years, teaching at Catawba, Plattsburg, and she retired in 1975 from Southeastern Local School District. She was a life member of the Hillside Church of God. The Baileys were married August 5, 1939 and they had four sons; P. Douglas, Richard L., Donald M. And Dana L .After her death, he was married to Alice (Crabbe) for two years, until his death in September, 1991.
JOHN R. GARRINGER
John R. Garringer was born in Fayette County, Ohio, on January 14, 1924, the son of George
A. and Martha L. Garringer. He married Roma Jean (Sheets) on December 15, 1945, and they
have three children: Dr. William A. Garringer, Dr. Jacqueline A. Garringer, and Michael A.
Garringer. He was employed at Shoemaker’s Super Valu, in South Vienna, for 22 years, then
was self-employed from 1968 - 1993, as a partner in the following businesses: Shoemaker’s
Market, South Charleston, Ohio; Ron and Jack’s Short Stop Convenience Stores in Russells
Point and Marion, Ohio; Shoemaker’s Home Center, South Charleston, Ohio, and Shoemaker’s
Super Valu, Greenfield, Ohio. John served as a member of village council from 1962 - 1966,
village mayor from 1966 - 1969, and was Scoutmaster for the South Vienna Boy Scout Troop
when it was first formed. He is a veteran of World War II, where he was a Chief Petty Officer in the U. S. Navy, serving in the Amphibious Forces in the Asiatic and Pacific War Zone. While serving in the Navy, John received the Navel Unit Citation, the Presidential Unit Citation, and six combat stars. John served on the South Charleston, Ohio Zoning Board from 1976-1984, the Clark County Board of Education from 1979-2000, and he was a member of the Fielding Lodge #192 F&AM, South Charleston, Ohio. John died in Springfield, Ohio, August 5, 2008.
Rhonda Sagraves was born in Springfield, Ohio, on September 9, 1957, the daughter of Junior and Glenna Davis. She is a 1976 graduate of Northeastern High School, and married Greg Sagraves on July 9, 1976. They have two children; Ben Sagraves and Brian Sagraves. Rhonda was employed by Shoemaker’s Super Valu, where she was scanning coordinator for 15 years. She has been a member of the village council since 2004, and has been secretary of the Corn Festival Committee since 1998. Rhonda was also the president of the South Vienna Pee Wee Football Quarterback Club from 1991-1993, and she is currently a resident of South Vienna.
John Schmid was born in Richmond, Indiana, on December 24, 1962. He married Jane (Runyan) on June 11, 1988, and they have two children; Scott Schmid and Michael Schmid. He is a 1981 graduate of Southeastern High School and a 1985 graduate of Clark State Community College. John is currently employed by Northeastern Local School District as the Director of Technology. He has been a member of the village council since 1994, and is a member of the United Church of South Vienna. John has been a coach for the Northeastern Summer Ball Association, and has coached basketball for National Trail Parks and Recreation. He has served
as the varsity soccer coach at Northeastern High School and also as the varsity basketball coach. He is presently jayvee basketball coach at Cedarville. John is a resident of South Vienna.
Roger Davis was born in Springfield, Ohio, on April 8, 1963, the son of Junior and Glenna Davis. He is a 1981 graduate of Northeastern High School, and married Susan (Sims) on September 7, 1985. They have two children; Natalie Davis and Ryan Davis, He is currently employed by Stanley Electric U.S. Co., Inc. He has been a member of the village council since 1994, and is currently the President of Council. Roger was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department for nineteen years, and is a current member of the United Church of South Vienna. He was the 7th grade girls basketball coach at South Vienna School from 2001-2003, and has been a coach in the Northeastern Summer Ball Association, a peewee football coach in South Vienna, and has also been involved in his children’s 4-H Club. Roger currently resides in South Vienna.
Nathan Sheerin was born in South Vienna, Ohio, in 1953. He is the son of Fred and Marvine Sheerin.. He has four siblings, Phyllis Dove, Stephen Sheerin, Timothy Sheerin, and Bonita Sheerin. He also is the father of three children: Bryan W. McEnaney, born in 1969, Scott M. Sheerin, born in 1973, and Benjamin J. Sheerin, born in 1976. Nathan graduated from Northeastern High School in Springfield, Ohio, in 1971. He ran a trucking business and was a U. S. Postal Service contractor from 1997 until his death Feb. 7, 2013. Before he started his own business, he worked for Benning Trucking from 1974-1997. He has been a member if the village council since 1992. He was also a member of the South Vienna Corn Festival Committee, and served as chairman of the committee. Nathan was a member of the Vienna Lodge #345 I.O.O.F. where he served as secretary and grand lodge representative, and once held the Noble Grand position. He is a past president of the South Vienna Area Jaycees, and was a member of the United Church of South Vienna.
JOHN AND JACKIE MILLER
John was born December 2, 1941, in St. Paris, Ohio,the son of Kenneth H. Miller and Donna Belle (Kunkle) Miller, and has two brothers, Raymond and Melvin. He is a graduate of Springfield South High School, and worked as a tool and die operator for four years, a fiberglass tech for eight years, and for International Truck and Engine in Springfield for eleven years. John was a member of the Board of Public Affairs in South Vienna, and still works for the board today. He has been a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department for over thirty years, and was a member of the Emergency Medical Service for six years. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and a member of St. Josephs Church in Springfield. Jackie was born December 10, 1942, in Springfield, Ohio, the daughter of Marion L. Downing and Mary (Wagner) Downing. She has two brothers, Larry and Timerson Downing, and one sister, Phyllis Wallen. Jackie is a graduate of Springfield South High School, worked asa waitress at F. W. Woolworth Co. for two and one half years, then worked at Mercy Hospital asa diet clerk for 28 years. She is currently a member of the Board of Public Affairs in South Vienna, and has held this position since 1989. She is a member of St. Josephs Church in Springfield, and has been a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary for the past 22 years. John and Jackie were married September 24, 1961, and have two children, Mary Heunen,
born in 1963, and John Miller II, born in 1967.
ROONEY WASHINGTON JONES
He was born in Clark County, Ohio, January 18, 1875, the son of Newton R. And Frances (Sullivan) Jones. As an adult, he resided on his fruit farm of three acres, situated within thevillage of Vienna, and served as the village treasurer for awhile.
D. U. Coberly was born on October 6, 1854. He was married to Laonie Clark of Vienna, and had five sons and two daughters. He taught school in Clark County for 54 years, and he was the principal of South Vienna Schools He was the first mayor of South Vienna after its incorporation in 1901, when he served from 1901-1903, and he also served during 1919 He served as assessor of Harmony Township for four years, and also served as township clerk.. He was serving as the village marshall at the time of his death. He was a member of the Vienna Lodge No. 660, Knights of the Pythias, and was a member of the Christian Church of Summerford. He died in 1928 as a result of heart disease.
John McCoy was born in Clark County, Ohio, on April 30, 1853, the son of William McCoy. He worked with his father at the cooper’s trade until 1870, when he engaged in carpentering. Mr. McCoy was married to Mary Roberts, from Madison County, in 1878. He was one of theprominent members of Vienna Lodge, No. 345, I.O.O.F., and was engaged in house-building and employed six to eight carpenters during the building season.
THOMAS ADDISON BUSBEY Mr. Busbey was born in 1858, and was reared in Vienna. He taught school at the early age of seventeen, and moved to Chicago in 1883 to join Railway Age magazine. Five years later he married Emancipation Proclamation Coggeshell, daughter of William T. Coggeshell, who was Ohio's first state librarian and governor's secretary and also United States ambassador to Ecuador. For twenty-five years he was associated with Railway Age in Chicago, serving as associate editor and managing editor and becoming a national authority on transportation matters. He retired from the publication in 1908 and removed his residence to Vienna,, where Mrs. Busbey died in 1913. He was a four time mayor of the village, serving from 1910 through 1916, and then served as a state senator. He was found dead in his bed in September, 1941.
IRA ROBBINS He was born October 21, 1882. He traveled for the John Amicon Company in Springfield in 1911, then opened his own business in South Vienna about 1918. He was the largest handler of eggs and poultry in Clark County, selling products to Springfield and Columbus hospitals, groceries, and restaurants. He kept all chickens purchased in neat wire floored coops from seven to ten days, feeding them milk and soft food. They were slaughtered in one room, feathers picked off in another room, dressed in still another compartment, then cooled and inspected before being taken to market. He bought and sold 50,000 to 60,000 chickens per year. He was mayor of South Vienna from 1926 to 1930, and was a member of the village council for at least twelve years. He built the building presently located on the southeast corner of Main and Urbana Streets, where he also ran a restaurant for a few years. He died in March, 1950.file://localhost/Users/carolynshoemaker/Desktop/Scan%20179.jpeg
ROLLAND AND STEPHANIE SHOEMAKER
Rolland Shoemaker was born in Springfield, Ohio, on Mar h 2, 1962, the son of Ron and Carolyn Shoemaker. He married Stephanie Anne (Leffel) on August 2, 1985, and they have three children; Kasey Shoemaker, Kayla Shoemaker, and Wendy Shoemaker. Rollie is a 1980 graduate of Northeastern High School and received his associates degree from Western Michigan University in 1982. He was employed at Shoemaker's Super Valu in South Vienna from 1982 until the business closed in November, 2010, and is currently a partner in Shoemaker's IGA in South Charleston, Ohio. Rollie is a member of the Un tied Church of South Vienna and is an Eagle Scout from Troop 6 of South Vienna. He has been a coach for the Northeastern Summer Ball Association, and has coached basketball and soccer for National Trail Parks and Recreation. Stephanie was born in Springfield, Ohio, on May 20, 1965, the daughter of Harry and Virginia Leffel. She graduated from Northeastern High School in 1983, and has spent most of her working life at Shoemaker's Markets in South Vienna and South Charleston. They are currently residents of South Vienna.
JOHN W. KENNEDY
John W. Kennedy was born in Madison County, Ohio, on December 8, 1930, the son of Robert C. and Catherine (Eyler) Kennedy. He married Charlene Simpson on June 12, 1951, and they had three children; John W. Kennedy, Robert C. Kennedy, and Cathy A. Kennedy. John was a supervisor for The Columbus Products Company for over 29 years. He served as a member of the village council from 1965 - 1969 and 1972 - 1974, and he was village mayor from 1969 - 1971, and 1974 - 1983. John was a veteran of the United States Army, serving in the Korean conflict, and he was a member of the St. Charles Borromeo Church in South Charleston. He was president of the Northeastern Boosters Club and he was the manager of the South Vienna Little League Baseball Association for twelve years. The lower diamond at Dynes Memorial Park has been named John W. Kennedy Field. He died February 10, 1983.
CARL AND TONI KELLER
Carl was born in 1945 in Lima, Ohio, the son of Lowis F. and Hazel B. Keller. He has one sister, Judy Smith, and one brother, Fred Keller. He graduated from Lima Senior High School in 1963, and soon after he started working for Sears. He then accepted a position with Navistar International in Springfield, Ohio, where he worked for 32 years, before retiring. He then started working part-time for DJ's National Food Service in Columbus, Ohio, where he has worked for several years. Carl is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Lodge #345 I.O.O.F. He has served as an Olympics of the Mind leader in the Northeastern schools, and has also been a member of the Northeastern High School Boosters Club. Carl was also involved in and coached youth baseball in South Vienna. Toni was born in 1947 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, the daughter of Jesse Hill and Jacqueline (Bryant) Hill. She has one brother, Tim, and oone sister, Teri, (Hill) Bennett. She graduated from London High School in 1965, then attended the Ohio State School of Cosmetology. She worked for Cintas Uniform Company for one year, then worked for Ramada Inn, in Springfield, for seven years. In 1985 she accepted a position as an account clerk with theOhio Division of Natural Resources - Division of Watercraft, a position she still holds. Toni served as a council member in the village of South Vienna from 1986 to 2000, when she was elected mayor. She is still serving in that office. She is an original and current member of the Corn Festival Committee, where she is in charge of rides and the Queen Pageant. She is a member of the League of Women Voters as well as the Springfield Transportation Coordinating Committee, he Springfield Health District, and the United Church of South Vienna. She was an Olympics of the Mind leader in the Northeastern School District, and is on several committees as a result of her job with the Ohio Division of Natural Resources. Carl and Toni were married August 7, 1965, and have four children; Tammy Schafer, born in 1966, Tracy Mcghie, born in 1969, Tricia Severaance, born in 1971, and Chad Keller, born in 1974.
STEVE AND BETTY EARLEY
Steve was born on Sept. 23, 1917, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He was the son of Thomas E. Earley and Gussie B. Earley, who were farmers. He had eight siblings; T. F., Benton, Bryan, Edwin, Marie, Gussie Mae, and Dorothy Earley. Steve graduated ffile://localhost/Users/carolynshoemaker/Desktop/Scan%20190%20(2).jpgrom Orangeburg High School in 1936, and in 1939 he joined tfile://localhost/Users/carolynshoemaker/Desktop/Scan%20190%20(2).jpghe Air Force and served in World War II. After the war Steve worked as a farmer, then worked for the state of Ohio as a prison guard for twenty years. He served the village of South Vienna as a member of the Board of Public Affairs, and worked with the local Boy Scouts of America for many years. He was a member of the United Church of South Vienna, where he served on the Board of Managers, as a deacon, and as an usher.
Betty was born on August 27, 1919, in Catawba, Ohio. She is the daughter of Robert Alexander Farish and Bessie Florence (Wilson) Farish. Robert was a businessman, who owned a grocery store in Brighton, Ohio, and later a Ford dealership in South Vienna. Betty had six siblings, including a twin who died at the age of 21 months. There were also Hobart, Don, Roger, June Martindale, and Nell Good. Betty graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1937, then worked at Crowell-Collier in Springfield for five years, then worked at Shoemaker's Super Valu in South Vienna, as produce manager for 22 years. She is a member of the United Church of South Vienna, where she has held several psitions. She also was a deacon in the United Methodist Church before the merger, and was also a member of the pastor-parish committee.
Steve and Betty were married December 30, 1944, and they had two children, Bonnie Sweet Junell, born in 1949, and Ronald, born in 1951. Steve died on May 5, 1995, and Betty passed away November 28, 2015.
RODGER AND VIRGINIA MORNINGSTAR
Rodger was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1919, the son of Ralph and Gladys (Beals) Morningstar, who were farmers. He had two brothers, Wendell and Lowell, a one sister, Maxine Swaney. He graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1937. From 1940 until 1944 Rodger worked in various factories, and in 1944 he entered World War II as a platoon messenger with the Army's 10th Mountain Division He received the Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star with V for Valor. He left the Army in November, 1945, and from 1946 to 1953 he served as a substitute mail carrier for the United States Postal Service. Between 1953 and 1966 Rodger worked for several companies as a machinist, then in 1966 he became the postmaster in South Vienna. He held this position until his retirement in 1980. He was a council member in South Vienna from 1962 - 1965, and again from 1969 - 1972. He was a member of the Board of Public Affairs in 1966, and served as village clerk from 1981 -1982.
Virginia was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1919, the daughter of Ross and Ethel Swaney, who were farmers. She had three sisters, Edith, Mildred, and Gertrude, and two brothers, Nathaniel and Eugene. She graduated from Cedarville High School in 1937, and soon after she attended the Springfield School of Business where she majored in business. She worked for three years for Commonwealth Insurance Company and one year for Johnson's Lamp Shop, but spent the majority of her time raising her family. Virginia served the village of South Vienna first as clerk for the Board of Public Affairs, then later as clerk-treasurer for the village from 1982 until 1996.
Rodger and Virginia were married September 3, 1940, and had four children; Dale, born in 1941, Wayne, born in 1943, David, born in 1949, and Gloria Durham, born in 1954. Virginia died in July, 2008, and Rodger followed in December, 2009.
HENRIETTA E. HOCTER
Henrietta Hocter was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, on August 23, 1923, the daughter of Erby Lee and Adelone (Kitson) Massie. She ws married to Paul William (Bill) Hocter for 59 hers, and they had five children; Jane Dean, Dr. Nancy Cross, Kathy Breen, Robin Murphy, and Robert Hocter. Henrietta was employed by the United States Postal Service in South Vienna, and as a teacher's aid at South Vienna School. She was the first woman elected to the village council, a position she held from 1966 until 1983. In February, 1983, she became the first woman to hold the office of Mayor of South Vienna, and she continued to hold that position until December, 1999. Sh was an original member of yje Corn Festival Committee, and the first meeting was held in her home in 1976. She was also an honorary Kentucky Colonel. Henrietta died on March 2, 2004, in Springfield Community Hospital.
EUGENE C. SHOOK
Gene was born October 8, 1923, in South Vienna, the son of Abel Clinton and Hazel (Thomas) Shook. He was a 1942 graduate of Plattsburg High School, and a veteran of the United States Army. He served in World War II and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Grimes-Kohl Post 1031. He was a member of United Auto Workers Local 402, and was retired from Navistar. He was a member of the United Church of South Vienna, and had served on the South Vienna Board of Public Affairs. Gene worked on many projects as a volunteer for the community of South Vienna and Northeastern School District.
He was married for 52 years to Nancy Ann (Moore), and they had one son, Michael E., and one daughter, Cathie. He died in August, 1998.
Richard Smith was born in Beatty, Ohio on September 21, 1925. He was the son of Russell and Mary (Rittenhouse) Smith, and he had two brothers, Richard R. Smith and Warren L. Smith. Richard married Dorothea Miller in 1948, and they had four children: Linda Kadel, born in 1948,Charlene Windle, born in 1957, and twin daughters, Janet Lannon and Jeanette Koons, born in 1957. Richard graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1943, in the midst of World War II,
and soon after graduation was drafted into the United States Navy as a gunner. After W. W. II, he went to work at the South Vienna Garage with his father, Russell. After his father’s death in 1968, he ran the business until 1974, when he went to work in bus maintenance for the Northeastern Local School District until his retirement in 1986. Richard was a member of the Harmony Township Fire Department from 1958 until 1981, and at the time of his retirementfrom the department he was chief. He was also a member of Vienna Lodge #345 I.O.O.F. and was involved in a square dancing club. Richard Smith died on
October 25, 1986.
Russell Smith was born in Wooster, Ohio, in 1903 to Edwin Foster and Isa May (Grossman) Smith. He had six siblings; Warren Smith, LouellaThomas, William Anglin, Samuel Smith, Ruth, and Thelma. Russell married Mary L. Rittenhouse in 1922, and together they had three children: Russell Ray Smith, born in 1923, Richard Edwin Smith, born in 1925, and Warren Lee Smith, born in 1944. Russell and Mary moved to South Vienna in 1923. He had several occupations: he was a jockey and raced horses, he was a carpenter during World War II at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and he worked at International Harvester Company after the war. In 1949, Russell purchased the South Vienna Garage at ___ North Urbana Street, and he operated the business until he died in 1968.
He was chief of the South Vienna Fire Department, and also a member of the South Vienna Methodist Church.
OMAR W. (WERDIE) STOLL
He was born in Vienna August 25, 1887, the son of Jacob and Edith (Perkins) Stoll, also natives of Harmony Township. As a boy in Vienna, he attended the public schools and also business college. In April, 1909, he traveled to California, where he worked six years as a clerk in a wholesale hardware house. He then returned to Clark County and traveled for four years as a salesman for a Dayton company. He then opened a grocery and general store at 2 E. Main
Street in South Vienna, which he operated for about thirty years. On November 25, 1916, he married Mona Weldon in Denver, Colorado. They had two children,
Weldon, born in 1918, and William, born in 1921. Mrs. Stoll was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he was affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons. He died in October, 1984.
CLARK E. JONES
He was born in Clark County, Ohio, May 13, 1869, the son of William Wallace and Amanda M. (Clark) Jones. He came to Vienna when he was about ten years old, and completed his education here. He was, more or less, continuously interested in farming, as he owned twenty-two and a half acres in Pleasant Township, along with two properties in Vienna. On March 12, 1891, Mr. Jones was married in New Moorefield, Ohio, to Nellie A. Baird. She was born in Clark County, Ohio, November 2, 1872, and was a daughter of William and Nancy J. (Kimble) Baird. Mr. Jones belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Vienna, while his wife was a member of the Christian Church. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and also belongedto the higher branch, the Uniform Rank, at Springfield, and also to the auxiliary, the Pythian Sisters. He was a staunch Republican, and as such, he was elected justice of the peace in 1907 for a term of four years.
He was born in Clark County, Ohio, September 10, 1851, and was a son of Thomas and Mary (Sexton) Goodfellow. He was reared in Harmony Township, and this section has always been his home, with the exception of four years spent in Kansas. In 1898, he went west and engaged in a grain and feed business at Topeka, Kansas, until June, 1902, when he returned to Clark County and resumed farming. While in Kansas, Mr. Goodfellow was married to Helen Sexton,
from Kentucky on March 1, 1889. They had one son, Thomas, who was born on April 22, 1895. In the spring of 1904, he entered into a partnership with Dr. E. H. Smith and John McCoy, in the organization of a business which they carried on under the name of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company. The partnership continued for three years, when Mr. Goodfellow bought Dr. Smith’s interest, and on Dec. 11, 1907, he purchased Mr. McCoy’s interest. He employed ten to twenty girls in the manufacture of comforts, and produced a product so excellent that demand for his products came from all over the country. In 1911, John moved the company to Bellefontaine, Ohio. Prior to entering this industry, he kept a general store for a while in Vienna. He was a Republican, and served as treasurer of Harmony Township for fifteen years, for three terms as trustee, and for a long period as a member of the school board. He belonged to Lodge No. 660, Knights of Pythias, at Vienna, where he rose to the office of chancellor commander, and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine at the time of his death.
He was born in Clark County, Ohio, April 13, 1859, the son of Abraham and Mary Ann (Jones) Weaver. He was reared in Clark County and attended the district school. In 1885 he settled in Madison County and lived there until 1890, when he came to Vienna, where he owned property, conducted a blacksmith shop, and engaged in farming. He married Luemma Smith, who was born in 1861, and they had two children; Gilbert, who was born March 31, 1886, and Irene, who was born March 24, 1896. Mr. Weaver was a township trustee for three years, belonged to Lodge No. 345, Odd Fellows, at Vienna, and was a member of the board of trustees of the Christian Church of Vienna. He also served several years as a member of the school board.
Pictures clockwise from bottom left: Lewis Jones, bank employee; bank lobby; H. Marlin Saylor; McCann's Restaurant; and Sheets' Restaurant.
Sometime later, Vernon Taylor and Henry Hopkins were arrested in connection with this robbery, and authorities suspected them of pulling off a string of robberies --------eight in 22 days.


Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella | A book review
Book review number 2! I’m a big fan of Sophie Kinsella. Her chicklits are always funny and cute and so well written that I could finish the book in one day. So after finding out she had written the YA novel Finding Audrey, I knew I had to read that one too.
Finding Audrey is about a girl who has some psychological issues. She has a social anxiety, which lead to awkward interactions. This book follows her path to recovery, with a little help from a new friend Linus. So what did I think?
Book review of Finding Audrey:
Sophie Kinsella has a great writing style, which makes reading this book a breeze. The characters are very well-defined and have some very particular traits. The book starts in the middle of a rant from Audrey’s mother and you’ll find out that that’s just how her mother is. I found her mother very annoying in the beginning, but towards the end of the book I got to understand her a little better and she actually changed a little. It made her much more tolerable.
A mental illness is of course a very serious subject, but this book wasn’t a very serious and depressing read. I think it is amazing how the author could write about it like that, without being offensive to the seriousness of mental illnesses (if you know what I mean). She made Audrey a relatable character, even though we don’t all have the anxieties as much as she has.
The book also discusses the meaning of family and support. The way Linus helps her break through some barriers Audrey had really shows that a good support system and a little push here and there can help you. And I think that she wrote about it in a way that makes you think that it doesn’t necessarily has to be help by recovering from an illness, but also in other aspects of your life. We all need a Linus now and then.
All in all; Finding Audrey was a fun, quick and easy read that I recommend to everyone. It helps you understand the impact of a mental illness and how and why supporting each other is needed.
What were your thoughts about Finding Audrey? What book would you recommend?


Soar with Reading has Landed in Newark this Summer with Free Books
If you happen to be in New Jersey with your kids this month, be sure to get some free books courtesy of JetBlue!
As part of the company’s Soar with Reading program, there will be five digital vending machines throughout the city throughout the month of August, where visitors will have the opportunity to order brand-new books that will be distributed free of charge.
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The Soar with Reading program has been around since 2011 with the goal of increasing access to age-appropriate books for children in underserved communities.
Since 2015, JetBlue has taken a creative approach to providing children with books through their free book vending machine program. In previous years, the vending machines have been located in cities like Detroit, Washington DC, Oakland and Fort Lauderdale.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne Jr., joined with JetBlue to bring the program to Newark this summer. Baraka said he is enthusiastic about the city’s partnership with JetBlue.
“It is important for our children to find themselves, in stories and pictures, in books,” Baraka said. “This is a holistic approach to defining the future of our youth and in turn the future of our city.”
The innovative program offers books of all reading levels and lets visitors browse through their diverse selection of titles, authors and reading levels and also allows readers to select books in English or Spanish.
As a part of fostering a reading habit in children, the vending machines also offer a selection of books for adults. Research has shown positive educational effects on children who observe their parents reading.
The books available in the vending machines will be updated periodically throughout the summer and come from the publishing partners including HarperCollins Publishers, Little Bee Books, Lil’ Libros, Lee & Low Books, Candlewick Press, Penguin Random House, TOKYO POP and Simon & Schuster.
To date, JetBlue has donated over $4 million worth of books through the Soar with Reading program.
In addition to the vending machines, Soar with Reading also includes a variety of resources that parents can use to foster reading at home. Some of these resources include a website to help find local libraries and Story Online, a database that hosts videos of celebrities reading children’s books.
Dr. Susan B. Neuman, professor of childhood and literacy education at NYU Steinhardt, has praised the program and its ability to reduce the effects of “the infamous summer slide.”
“Studies have shown that owning 25 books or more has a sizable effect on achievement, with each additional increment of books, such as 10 or more, improving achievement,” Neuman said. “This program allows children to own books and combat the knowledge loss that so often accompanies summer.”
You can find the digital vending machines in the following locations:
- La Casa de Don Pedro: 23 Broadway
- The Leaguers: 200 W. South Orange Ave
- Newark Ironbound Recreation Center: 226 Rome Street
- Springfield Branch Library: 50 Hayes Street
- Van Buren Branch Library: 140 Van Buren Street
Additionally, Soar with Reading is hosting a story time with WABC-TV’s Sade Baderinwa this Friday, Aug. 12, at 1pm at the Van Buren branch library. Every kid child that attends the event will go home with a free book and have a chance to order up to six additional free books of their choice.
Don’t miss this opportunity for a fun story time and a chance to add new books to your child’s library!


Recent Trends in Book Conservation and Library Collections Care
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation Vol. 31, No. 1, Conservation of Sacred Objects and Other Papers from the General Session of the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 3-8, 1991 (Spring, 1992), pp. 95-101
Published by: The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3179616
The Maria Fredericks article I chose to review explores how preservation and conservation philosophies are shaped not by our own ideals but by outside forces that often compromise our work. These outside sources include the growing number of collection materials in need of care and the lack of funding available. The Cloonan article appears to be in favor of allowing preservation work to become "... a way of seeing and thinking about the world" despite these outside forces. The forming schism in philosophies is only intensified with the state of our economy. Library budgets are becoming tighter than ever even as public usage of library collections increase. More libraries and archives are beginning to see an increase in requests for access to fragile collections. Conservators understand that these access requests could lead to further deterioration of collections so their preservation philosophy must shift in a way that appears to act against the idea that the conservation and preservation fields exist to save items of cultural significance so that they may be accessed by future generations. Instead of simply denying access, digitization programs have been created in an effort to provide access to materials without causing harm to them. However it appears that the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of technology as a cure all because many institutions have gotten rid of their preservation programs entirely and replaced them with digitization departments. Cloonan urges that "this is shortsighted, narrow-minded, and, ultimately, counterproductive" to the goals of preservation but Fredericks would argue that the surge in digitization is the best way we know how to provide access AND increase the longevity of materials.
Fredericks concludes that it is hard to work against using technology as our only preservation tool because national institutions prefer digitization reformatting as a preservation technique. They see it as the best and cheapest way to benefit governmental constituents. In class we briefly discussed how preservation philosophies differed when considering public, private, and governmental institutions. Cloonan warns that digitization and born digital artifacts often come with their own set of problems that could compromise the health and longevity of cultural artifacts. According to Fredericks, technical solutions are becoming more prevalent among preservation administrators within the government at the highest levels. The Commission on Preservation and Access has concerned itself only with preserving the information of documents and are constantly searching for new technologies to make the information available as oppose to how to preserve the original documents.
Both articles make it clear that preservation administrators are close to losing sight of why we do what we do and that it is easy to see technology as the answer to all of our problems. They respects that original artifacts need to be kept safe but that new technologies can be a part of this safety plan. Furthermore both Fredericks and Cloonan instruct preservation administrators to learn to make technology work for them in pursuit of their preservation philosophy but also to see the problems that are being created and work together to solve them accordingly.


This website provides transcriptions of
letters written to Henry James. These
letters, from the Houghton
Library at Harvard, have never been published before
and will probably never be available in book form.
This is not a commercial site. Its primary purpose is to provide graduate students and scholars of American and English literature from around the world with a reliable and convenient alternative to using the original manuscripts. All
letters have been carefully transcribed according to
theories of scholarly editing.
This site serves as a complement to the forthcoming
and in-progress publication of The Complete Letters
of Henry James, 1855-1872, edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias.


Here are my top five military science fiction books ever…in order.
1. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers– Its the grand daddy of the all. SO much better than the movie.
2. Halderman’s The Forever War– I find a lot of folks have not read this book…it is just an utter masterpiece of the genre.
3. Steakley- Armor– A lesser known one but really good. A strong message about PTSD and the psychology of war.
4.Scalzi’s- The Ghost Brigade– I give this book a slight nod over Old Man’s War, the first book in the series.It has a bit of a more focused story that does not need to set up the world as much, and the book benefits.
5.- Scalzi’s- The Old Man’s War– A nice modern epic with a great world and some fantastic sci fi notions. A modern must read.


The world of A Song of Ice and Fire is an exceedingly massive world with an exceedingly massive amount of individuals within it. When a civilization exists in a massive world, individuals are likely to explore. The most interesting part of A Song of Ice and Fire is the fact that George R. R. Martin does not reveal anything about the world that the people inside the world do not know about. This, for example, can be seen in the exploration of the continent of Sothoryos, or lack thereof. Those few who have explored it throughout history either failed in their pursuits, or did not explore far as they were attempting to gather resources for their civilizations. This is why exploration is so important within the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. If the main characters are doing nothing but sitting around, the reader will never learn anything more about the world.
Take the land beyond the Wall in Westeros, for example. The reader would never know anything about what was happening beyond the Wall if it was not for Sam Tarly and Jon Snow; if they had not gone beyond the wall and performed the deeds they did, the reader would not know what the land that lay beyond was like. The same goes for Essos; the reason readers know what they do about Essos is because individuals like Daenerys Targaryen have marched around the whole of Essos, and met many different cultures and people along the way. The same goes with Arya Stark; it is because of her that we know so much about the most secret house in Braavos, and arguably the whole word. The following is a breakdown of what some of the main characters have done to contribute to the knowledge of selective areas, sorted by continent.
Exploration Beyond the Wall
Jon Snow is one of the finest examples of exploration in the north. Joining the nights watch was his dream, though he was only made a steward by the leaders of the Wall. This, opposed to the rank of a ranger, meant that Jon could not venture beyond the Wall and would have to do work within the Wall itself. Eventually, after killing a White Walker, he was permitted to go north with Mormont at the head of the force, which began his first bit of exploration in the north.
“Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Eventually Mormont dispatched a few groups to scout ahead, Jon’s group being lead by Qhorin Halfhand. Their group discovered a huge settlement of wildling in A Song of Ice and Fire, which differs from the story the television show portrays. In the books, everyone but Jon snow and Quorin Halfhand were slain in the Frostfangs, while Jon and Quorin were captured. Eventually Jon killed Quorin and gained the trust of the wildlings, bringing Jon deeper into wildling territory, giving him the ability to explore beyond the Wall like no one before him had ever done with such ease. The stories that are usually told of rangers who go beyond the wall generally end with a lot of pain due to starvation, the cold, or attacks, or even death by wildlings, or natural forces. The true north is a harsh land, and Jon Snow was extremely lucky to be able to explore it with such ease.
Sam is an unfortunate story, to say the least. Though his being thrown into the far North was not a part of his plan, he still ended up becoming one of the luckiest men in the north, under Jon Snow of course. In A Storm of Swords, when the Other attack their camp, Sam and a few other men manage to escape the onslaught, and venture out into the cold, unforgiving land beyond the wall. They manage to find their way back to Craster’s keep, though there is an uprising in which Sam is forced to escape with one of Craster’s wives, Gilly. This also happens in the show.
Sam is then forced to travel through the land beyond the Wall, back to the wall with this woman. Eventually they almost make it back, but when they reach the village of Whitetree, they are attacked by White Walkers. The Walker who attacked Sam in the book actually happened to be Small Paul, a friend of Sam’s who helped Sam travel through the land beyond the Wall.
Sam may not have been cut out for the job of being an explorer, so thus when Jon was promoted, he let Sam escape from the life of an explorer and go south to study to become a Maester. Now he runs the Twitter account for the Night’s Watch, and makes really bad jokes.
…..and still gets distracted from his vows.
Exploration in Essos
Arya Stark becomes one of the books’ favourite characters. Not only is she an explorer in Westeros, as she hops around the continent with her hated ‘partner’ the Hound, but she eventually turns her face towards Essos as well. In the television show, season five ended with the beginning of this plot; unfortunately for those interested in this plot, the books are not much further along.
At the end of season five, one can see Arya getting on a ship to sail to Essos, specifically the city of Braavos. She manages to get a free ride from the merchant; how she does this is by presenting him with a coin and uttering the phrase “valar morghulis“. The coin was given to her by Jaqen H’ghar, one of the faceless men trained in the city of Braavos.
This more or less follows the same plot as the books, and after this scene, Arya begins her adventure of being one of the few characters from Westeros to explore Essos. Once in Essos, she is permitted into the House of Black and White to begin her training to become “no one”; better known as a faceless man. These are trained assassins, very deadly and very unforgiving. Arya has traveled all the way from her home in the North, to the docks which took her to Essos, and arrived in Braavos where she will be in the same city that both Tyrian Lanister and Daenerys Targaryen will also be. These two are also explorers of Essos in their own way, Daenerys more so.
Daenerys Targaryen is probably one of the most unique explorer characters in A Song of Ice and Fire. What the television show does not portray is the fact that Daenerys has been an explorer since she was a child. When she was very young, she actually had already been to Essos. A Targaryen, one of the noble families of Westeros, in Essos as a child. She lived in Braavos with her brother and Ser Willem, though she and her brother were driven out by rebellious servants when Ser Willem died.
The beginning of her exploration is a sad one, as it was not out of interest, or the love of new places.. Her and her brother traveled between every single free city, less two, and went from home to home, hoping that every time they stepped into a house, they wouldn’t be sent right back out a few weeks later when the glory of housing the Targaryen children wore off on their hosts. She was born on Dragonstone island, but shortly after the island fell to rebel forces and her and her brother had to be smuggled to Bravos. They stayed in one place for a long time, but when Daenerys was 13, she was driven out with her brother onto the road, and from then until when the television show begins to portray her along her timeline, she had already visited Lys, Pentos, Qohor, Tyrosh, Braavos, Myr, and Volantis. It is easy to forget that Daenerys is originally from Westeros, but even if she was from Essos, she did more exploring than the average individual from that area.
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“He has been our host for over a year, and he has never asked us for anything..” Note the suspicion and/or surprise in her voice.
Exploration in Sothoryos
Sothoryos is the third continent in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. Very little is known about it, as it is essentially filled with deserts and jungles, and thus no one dares venture too far into it. Though there is not much known about it, there has been some exploration of this mysterious continent that vaguely resembles Africa. In the books, tales are told about a Valyrian dragon-rider who attempted to find the southern-most boarder of the continent. This female ended up returning three years later in defeat, saying that she flew so far south and for so long that she decided to turn around and give up.
This is not the only story that involves the exploration of Sothoryos. The occupants of Slaver’s Bay occasionally explore the coast of Sothoryos with raiding parties, in hopes of finding small settlements to destroy and take slaves from. This is a tradition that goes back at least half a millennia, if not more, before the Doom of Valyria. Both the Ghiscari Empire (which was destroyed 400 years prior to the timeline of the books) and Valyria began the tradition of venturing into Sothoryos looking for slaves. Unfortunately, this is all the exploration that has been done on this mystifying continent, and leaves more than half the world of A Song of Ice and Fire clouded with mystery.
Exploration in George R. R. Martin’s world is a very important thing. One could argue that without exploration, there may not be any plot. To understand the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, the main characters seemingly need to do their exploring to convey the information of their knowledge of the land. If this does not happen within the books, readers are left with a result similar to that of Sothoryos. Because no main character has gone there, there is only lore left to go off of. George R. R. Martin could easily write stories about this continent, but he purposely adds this feature to add to the realism of A Song of Ice and Fire.
John Snow explores the unknown North. This is what he dreamed of doing, as he could do little else as a bastard child. He helps readers discover more about the lands of the Wildlings, as well as some more dangerous areas of the far North. Sam Tarly never wanted to do any exploring for himself, but he was essentially forced into it, and happenstance happened to put him in some very nasty situations which forced him to travel around beyond the Wall.
In Essos, Arya Stark gives the readers insight into some very secret areas of Braavos. Leaving her home in Westeros, and journeying East to learn how to become a faceless assassin not only lets her describe what she goes through, but also describe the area she is in as well. Arya is not unlike Daenerys in this sense; Daenerys is also exploring seemingly as a secondary result, which is being spurred on by a cause. In Daenerys’ case, in her youth, her and her brother had no place to go and simply needed a place to stay. Thus, over the course of a few years, they had traveled to almost all the free cities of Essos.
A Song of Ice and Fire has an extraordinarily vast world to explore, and George R. R. Martin lets readers explore it. He does not, however, allow them to explore it with their own eyes directly; he provides the views of the people within the world to give the readers the satisfaction they seek.
Written by: Michael Schroth
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Chiron and the Education of Achilles
Batoni's painting shows the mythological centaur Chiron teaching Achilles, whom he raised and mentored from infancy. Beyond that the story gets complicated.
King of the Centaurs
To understand what Chiron represents you must recognize that Greek mythology is not just a set of stories, it's a cosmology that describes the origins and the details of humans and their character. The stories are interconnected because the elements of human thought, character, and culture are interconnected, and Chiron is one of the most interconnected characters of all.
He was born from the unwilling union of the mortal sea nymph Philyra with Cronus, father of Zeus and the Greek primordial god of time. His centaur form, with a human head and torso and the body of a horse, derived from his mother's attempt to escape rape by his father by shifting into a mare. In this origin he was different, and his legacy was opposite in the extreme, from all the other centaurs who were famous for depravity and barbarism.
Chiron was immediately rejected by both his parents and taken into the care of the sun-god Apollo, the god of prophecy and oracles, healing, plague and disease, music, song and poetry, archery, and the protection of the young. Apollo passed these skills on to Chiron who consequently came to embody the integration of human culture and intellect with our bestial instincts and brute force.
Chiron was the Greeks' original teacher and raised many of the Greeks' most famous heroes including Jason (who, barely out of his teens, led the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece), Asclepius (god of medicine), Aristaios (god of shepherds, cheese-making, bee-keeping, olive growing, medicinal herbs and the Etesian winds), Theseus (to become the king of Athens), Ajax (to become king of Salamis), both Peleus and his son Achilles (hero of the Trojan war).
Chiron was honored by all, something uncommon in Greek mythology, so it was ironic that his demise came accidentally when he was grazed by a poisoned arrow shot by his friend Hercules. Because he was immortal the magic poison caused him endless, debilitating torment but could not kill him. From this Chiron is recognized as the original wounded healer, an archetype central to the work of therapists, counselors, prophets, and shaman.
Hercules eventually secured a divine bargain in which Chiron's immortality was forfeit to secure the liberation of Prometheus, who was more-or-less Chiron's cousin, thereby granting Chiron his wish to die and consigning his spirit to the underworld. Yet even that was not to last as his universal esteem led his half-brother Zeus to intervene one last time by raising him to the celestial realm in the form of the constellation Sagittarius (sagitta is Latin for “arrow”), thereby restoring to him an immortality of sorts. In this way Chiron ultimately found his cure beyond death and, in both myth and astrology, he lies as a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.
Approach to Education
While Chiron appears throughout Greek mythology to raise and mentor those destined to be gods and heroes we don't known much about his personality or educational philosophy. As this is a book about learning these are the things we are most interested in: just how does one learn to be a mythical hero? Luckily Odysseus asked this same question of Achilles when he met him later in his life, and this is what he answered:
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Holy Order: Shaker Dances is a short tone poem that attempts to recreate a Shaker religious service. While the Shaker hymns have found their way into modern day hymnals and are recognizable, a lesser known aspect of the Shaker experience was the dance - as it was believed that dancing liberated the soul and invited the temporary possession of the individual by spirits from the Beyond. This included the stomping, shaking their heads in a violent manner, scratching, quaking, trembling, screeching, shuffling of their feet, etc. When worship service was over, they would slow down and drop off, one by one, just as oddly as it began.
The basis of the piece is primarily focused upon the uniform displays of dancing the Shakers exhibited in their worship services. The work is divided into 5 sections coinciding with the dances from their worship services: The Holy Order, the Regular Step, the Back Manner, Quick Dance, and the Heavy Shuffle. These 5 movements form a tonal arc, moving away from and back to D, the home note of the piece. The main idea of the work is to build up a series of complex unpredictable textures, tunes, harmonies and rhythmic timing out of the simplest of most familiar musical material derived directly from the Shaker Hymns while depicting there curious habits listed above.


Author: Anouk Pollet
The kingdom of Avalon rejoiced the arrival of spring. Flower fairies emerged from their nests and the frost fairies disappeared. Nightingales sang and babies, human and animal alike, were born. But still Spring was sad. In the week that she had seen Winter she had realised just how alone they both were. They had no one in the entire world who could understand them. They didn’t even understand themselves. Not that it stopped them being friends. Opposites attract, or so the humans said. Spring almost smiled at this unexpected piece of human wisdom. Spring played with the animals and braided flowers into her long, moss green hair but she still felt that something was missing. Her friend, an otter called Tee, noticed something was wrong and tried to comfort her. “Oh Tee. Why do I feel like this?” Spring said as she lay down next to a river to sleep. The moss was soft and the willows rustled gently above. The sound of the river laughing as she flowed down the hill lulled Spring into a deep sleep.
Summer followed the playful otter down the stream. He often had to duck, as the willows branches loved hitting him and would go out of their way to. The otter led him to a beautiful willow with pink flowers drifting in the water near it and covering the branches. He looked underneath and saw a girl. She was lithe and willowy, with moss green hair and tanned skin. Flowers wove themselves into her hair and animals played around her. “Wow,” he gasped. This seemed to wake her. She gave a stirred and her eyelashes fluttered. Summer’s friend, a squirrel called Mateo, climbed him like an oak. “So? What do you think?” Mateo chattered away in his squirrel language and Summer nodded. He looked down again and saw her grass green eyes looking up at him. “I’m Spring,” she said and he swore his heart burst with happiness.
Autumn came, with his fox and red hair. He and Summer got on well and Avalon started preparing for Winter. Autumn danced on the wind that blew and the falling leaves covered him in reds, golds, yellows and browns. He couldn’t help thinking of his beloved Winter, with her cold skin and long hair. He couldn’t wait for her icy breath to blow on his cheek and her fun loving spirit to chase him onto new adventures. Flame, his faithful fox, felt the same about her black wolf, Nyx. The ground became carpeted with flame coloured leaves that crackled under Autumn’s feet as winter approached. One day he felt a cold breath on his cheek and a voice whispered in his ear “want to go on an adventure?” Autumn turned around, breathless with excitement, and saw Winter standing there. Her black hair, edged with white hung to her waist and her ice blue eyes seemed to pierce his soul. “Well? Are you coming?” Winter said and held out her hand.
Winter missed Autumn, but unlike her friend Spring, she did not spend every waking hour thinking about him. Instead she ice- skated, danced with the winter fairies and ran lightly across the top of the freshly fallen snow with Nyx. Sometimes, when Winter watched the humans attempt to ice- skate, she felt an uncharacteristic stab of fondness. Humans were so sweet (most of the time) and they were always so determined! More than twice she helped some young teenagers learn how to ice- skate without too many bruises, but of course they never saw her. Nyx laughed at her for liking humans and in revenge Winter and the fairies waged a snowball war against the wolves. The owls stayed on the side- lines, cautioning them, until a snowball hit one in the face. Now the owls joined in as well, bombarding both sides with snow. Finally, two days later, Winter and the fairies won. Tired but grinning, all teams declared a truce and lay down in the snow to cool off. Winter started noticing buds poking up through the snow and smiled secretly. “Spring!” She called. Out of the trees Spring ran. “Winter! It’s so good to see you! What did you do to occupy yourself?” Winter started a tale that would take up the whole of two days and during which they would laugh constantly.


Better and more beautiful, the world of the cephalopods…
Kustannusosakeyhtiö Pääjalkainen, Cephalopod Publishing Ltd in English, was founded in Turku, Finland in 2017. It is a tiny publishing company, but its aims are high. From the very beginning, Pääjalkainen has wanted to bring something new and different to the literary scene in Finland.
Pääjalkainen wants to publish meaningful literature. Meaningful doesn’t mean that it will only publish literary novels or “future classics” (whatever they might be). Entertainment can mean something, too.
Pääjalkainen is strongly against the present-day trend of letting individual books live fully for only a couple of months, then throwing them to bargain pile. We consider that foolish, both economically and ecologically. Good books deserve much more. Books deserve a lot longer lifespan.
Pääjalkainen loves books for children and young people, also the so-called young adult books . Children’s books are the most important section of all fiction. It is often the books that we read when we are children, that make us what we are, and can become.
This far, Pääjalkainen has published eight books.
Luopumisharjoituksia (~ “Exercises in letting go”) (2018) is a novel by Heli Hulmi, who lives in Helsinki. Heli Hulmi has been writing passionately all her life. She teaches writing, especially autobiographical writing. She has worked for YLE (the Finnish Boadcasting Company) as a radio documentarist. Ms. Hulmi has published short stories, a novella and non-fiction. Luopumisharjoituksia was her first full-length novel.
Ailitza eli Kävelevä maailma (~”Ailitza or A Walking Universe”) (2018) by Elina Koivunen, is a fantasy / speculative fiction novel written for teenagers. However, it deals with themes and questions that appeal (or, alternatively, might irritate) adults of any age. It is a story of a fourteen-year-old girl, Ailitza, who suddenly finds herself as an outcast from her native town, the oddly rigid town of Peri-Sokia. The town’s name comes from the peripheries of Finnish mythology. Not so universally known Peri-Sokia (~ “quite blind”) was the name of a mythical Cyclops. In the same manner, people in Peri-Sokia are fairly smart in some ways – and totally blind in some others. As Ailitza is pushed away, she starts to seek her mother — who was thrown out some thirteen years earlier, as Ailitza now finds out (to her great surprise). On the way to her mother, Ailitza is accompanied by her Granddad (or at least someone who introduces himself as her grandfather). The second storyline is about eating meat. In Peri-Sokia people don’t eat other animals. The taboo of eating other feeling and thinking creatures is strong. Ailitza is horrified when she finds out that there are carnivore humans. To eat or not to eat animals isn’t the only question as Ailitza is to find out. She gets to know a plant from the family of yarrow (Achillea millefolium). It has no name, as plants are not really individuals. A yarrow is only one small part of the totality of all yarrows. And plants can also mourn, when they are picked and devoured… Ailitza eli Kävelevä maailma is meant to be the first part of a trilogy that deals with connections between humans, (other) animals and plants. If things go as planned, the second book will come out in 2021 or early 2022. The storylines for both the sequels are set, but as writers well know, new and interesting subplots may arise on the way.
Elena Ferranten salaisuus ja muita esseitä (~ “The secret of Elena Ferrante and other essays”) (2019) by Elina Koivunen is a small selection of essays that deal with writing, philosophy and cannibalism, to mention just a few of the topics. The main essay is about the mysterious Italian best-seller writer, Elena Ferrante. The book is illustrated by the author.
Oranssia ja sitten pimeää (~ “First something orange, then comes darkness”) (2019) by Alina Vaatturi is a detective story set in the town of Turku. As a crime book, it is an old-fashioned puzzle with a twist. On the surface, it looks like the very old story of a missing schoolgirl. In this case, the girl Aime Taljamo comes from a prosperous, privileged family. Below the surface, there is quite another story, as Verne Pörninen and Helinä Reunanen, the not-likely non-detective amateur duo will eventually find out. Verne happens to be Aime’s uncle, Helinä is a female parson, and both are single. As it happens, Aime’s disappearance brings them together — although they might not realize this yet. In this book, the town Turku is almost like one of the characters. Turku was founded so long ago, that nobody really knows when (probably on the 13th century), and for a long time it was the second largest town in the kingdom of Sweden (only Stockholm was bigger). By the time Finland became independent in 1917, Helsinki had surpassed it as a capital (during the Russian regime, Helsinki was closer to St. Petersburg, while Turku was close to the old master, Sweden). Turku has never been the nominal capital of independent Finland, but it has kept its flavor and soul by the Aura river and close to the fascinating Finnish archipelago — that starts almost from its town center. Alina Vaatturi’s detective story is celebrating that fact, among other things.
Kuinka kirjailijaksi tullaan (2020) is the Finnish translation of Dorothea Brande’s American classic from the 1930’s, Becoming a Writer. Brande’s book is wise in many ways, as it deals with the problems and challenges of creative writing.
Raskaita Runoja ( ~ Heavy Poems) by Mika Suojanen (2020) is Pääjalkainen’s first poetry book. Dr. Mika Suojanen is a Finnish philosopher whose special interest lays on the research of experience. Besides literature, Suojanen works with video art and performances. Raskaita Runoja is his first poetry book. https://mikasuojanenphilosophy.wordpress.com
Okko Ilmonen ja Ukkonen by Elina Komulainen is quite a clever psychological picture book. The delicious illustrations are by Johanne Jasmine. Ilmari Ukkonen is a tiny snowman, fresh from the last snowy day. He is so envious of the full-size, confident snowman Okko Ilmonen (who lies next to him and who has been into so many adventures). Growing bigger is no small task!
Pettämätön kauneudentaju by Iiti Elomaa is a biographical novel about Erik Johan Löfgren, who was a very well known romantic Finnish artist in the 1800s. These days only few people recognise Löfgren’s name, but hopefully this well-researched but also quite entertaining novel will correct that.


There he met Marina Braun and Nils Becker, who have realized the construction of a photovoltaic system on the roof of the TU Central Library with the student association Solar Powers e.V.. One of the triggers for founding the association was the untapped potential of free roof space for clean solar power generation. Photovoltaic modules with a total area of four soccer fields could be installed on all TU properties. The basic idea: the photovoltaic system would be managed by the students themselves, and the TU would purchase the electricity produced.
The concept not only convinced those responsible at the TU Berlin, but also NATURSTROM AG and Grüner Strom Label e.V.. As part of the green power certification, the independent green power provider contributed 10,000 euros to the total costs of 50,000 euros. After long planning and intensive negotiations, the first photovoltaic system from Solar Powers was finally put into operation on the roof of the TU Central Library in 2016.
Here you can go to the Video.
More info on the initiative and further insights into the project here: www.solarpowers.de
P.S.: The association is always happy to welcome new members who want to help shape the energy transition!


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