We Need Your Help to Save a Little Cities Landmark: The Ward Building of New Straitsville
We Need Your Help to Save a Little Cities Landmark. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase the historic Ward Building in New Straitsville! We have a plan to restore the building to its former beauty and make it into a public heritage center, and we need $5,000 to reach our first fundraising goal.
A History of Race and Racism in the Little Cities
A History of Race and Racism in the Little Cities In this video (originally filmed for Little Cities Fest 2020) we visit Rendville, Ohio, an integrated company town, and Payne’s Crossing, on top of a hill near New Stratisviile, where African-Americans lived on the fringe of society. Tyler McDaniel visits David Butcher who lives near […]
The Tecumseh Theater: Renovation and Restoration
The Tecumseh Theater: Renovation and Restoration The Tecumseh Theater was recently renovated and restored as the original Improved Order of Red Men Hall. Three stories, the hall was a cultural center for Shawnee from its inception. Grant Joy talks to history-geographer, Tyler McDaniel about this story, on though to the current state of repair, as […]
Prohibition in the Little Cities
Prohibition in the Little Cities Everybody loves a good moonshining story. Learn how Straitsville Special spread far and wide in the era of prohibition. Cheryl Blosser meets up with Eric Hedin at the Black Diamond Distillery in New Straitsville, Ohio. Eric runs the Fermentation Program at Hocking College. We learn about the moonshining that […]
Little Cities of Black Diamonds Festival 2021: From Whence We Came
This year will be a little different as we will be streaming our history lectures, films, and interviews on social media. We are going to take a look at stories of migration through the ages into the Little Cities, starting from the first peoples into modern day.