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book will be made up of nearly a score
of essays, treating various aspects
of Ohio history and activity. While we
believe that this section of the book
will be of great interest to the general
reader, and will serve to interpret
the State as a whole, it is unlikely
that it will make significant addition to
the body of knowledge on Ohio.
The second and third sections of the
book, however, will be a unique
contribution. Because of its large
staff, widely distributed over the State,
the Writers' Project has been able to
dig up a considerable mass of inter-
esting information on neglected items in
the State's history. Staff workers
have covered all the important highways in Ohio, and
have located points
of interest and uncovered episodes
which, by their very nature, can hardly
be utilized by the conventional
historian. Using the network of roads as
an organizing unit, the book will reveal
the present picture of Ohio, tell
the story of the activities and
occupations of its people, and pause at his-
toric spots to connect the present with
the past. The result is a new form
and style of history which, we believe,
may provoke the citizens of Ohio to
a keener interest in the heritage of
their State.
In addition to the Ohio Guide, the
project has published, or is pre-
paring, similar publications on the
major cities and the more interesting
counties in the State. A sample of this
aspect of the work is the Guide to
Chillicothe and Ross County, a booklet of about 30,000 words, profusely
illustrated with photographs of the
district, and containing a list of the
points of interest in Chillicothe and
Ross County. A similar book on War-
ren and Trumbull County is now going to
press. When this series is
finished, Ohio will have a more complete
picture of itself and its history
than it has ever had before. Great care
is being taken in the research and
writing, and it is earnestly hoped that
future historians of the State may
find, in this series of books, a ready
and accurate source of information.
After the completion of the formal
program of the session
a brief time was devoted to a general
discussion of the papers
presented. Before adjourning, the
conference took action favor-
ing a similar joint conference next
year, at which time teachers of
history in secondary schools, local and
regional historical so-
cieties and other organizations
interested in history, genealogy and
allied subject should be invited.
This conference will be held Friday and
Saturday, April
7-8, 1939.
Minutes of the Regular Annual Meeting
of the Ohio State Arch-
aeological and Historical Society,
Held April 26, 1938.
A meeting of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical
Society was held April 26, 1938, in
accordance with the consti-
tutional provision concerning the Annual
Meeting. A quorum of
members was present. In the absence of
the president and vice
presidents of the Society, Mr. H. C.
Shetrone was elected chair-
man for the day. The secretary presented the Minutes of
the