Notes and Queries
A number of professional meetings of
interest to Ohio History readers will be
held this coming autumn. The Ohio
Historical Society will host the 1979 annual
meeting of the National Historic
Communal Societies Association at Zoar on
October 18-20, 1979. California State
College and Washington and Jefferson
College will co-host the forty-eighth
annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical
Association on Friday and Saturday,
October 12-13, 1979; suggestions for papers
and/or sessions relating to Pennsylvania
history should be sent to John Kent
Folmar, Department of History and Urban
Affairs, California State College,
California, Pennsylvania 15419, or
Roland M. Baumann, Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania 17120. The thirteenth annual
Duquesne History Forum will be held
October 17-19, 1979, at the William Penn
Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; those
interested should contact Bernard J.
Weiss, Director, Department of History,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania 15219.
The Ohio Historical Society has
published Guernsey County's Black Pioneers,
Patriots, and Persons, a black genealogy of Guernsey County, Ohio, by Rev.
Wayne L. Snider; this illustrated
144-page paperback traces the lives of black
citizens from the county's initial
settlement in 1810, explores the history of the local
Underground Railroad, the role of the
county's blacks during the Civil War, and
the development of black schools and
churches, and is available from the Sales
Department, Ohio Historical Society,
I-71 and 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio
43211 at a list price of $4.95. Also, in
cooperation with the Academy for
Contemporary Problems the Ohio
Historical Society has published Ohio-The
Next 25 Years, a collection of the papers delivered at a conference
held by the
Academy last year to commemorate 175
years of Ohio statehood. The booklet
includes addresses by William B. Saxbe,
former U.S. Senator, Attorney General,
and Ambassador to India; Ralph Widner,
President of the Academy for
Contemporary Problems; and Dr. Thomas H.
Smith, Director of the Ohio
Historical Society, and is available
from the Sales Department, Ohio Historical
Society, 1-71 and 17th Avenue, Columbus
43211 at a list price of $2.95 plus 50c for
handling and shipping.
Prologue, the Journal of the National Archives, is offering its
fourth $250 prize in
honor of Charles Thomson, Secretary of
the Continental Congress from 1774 to
1789, for the best scholarly article on
any aspect of American history. To be eligible,
the article must have been researched
either in the holdings of the National
Archives, regional archives, or one of
the presidential libraries, should not exceed
7,500 words, and should be submitted to
the Editor of Prologue, the Journal of the
National Archives, Washington, D.C.,
20408 by August 1, 1979; the winning essay
will be published in Prologue.
The Northwest Area Foundation of St.
Paul, Minnesota, has awarded $50,000 to
the Forest History Society, Santa Cruz,
California, to support a biography of
David T. Mason, a nationally prominent
forestor. The basic sources for the
biography are interviews conducted over
an eight-year period by Elwood R.