A Commonplace Book

Category: Ohio...

  • the Hopewell and Adena mound builders and the Great Serpent Mound
  • Ohio, the birthplace or residence of eight presidents (Harrison, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding).
  • Ohio was the first state to be carved out of the Northwest Territory and it is one of the smallest states west of the Appalachians
  • Ohio takes it name from the river, an Iroquoian word meaning "great water"
  • The climate of Ohio is perfect... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort - is the very climate which secures the highest civilization. (R.B. Hayes)
  • Poor Warren. He wasn't a bad egg. Just weak. He loved women and Ohio. (J. Ashbery)
  • Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell? (poster in Dayton, Ohio)
  • Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu. (J. Fleischman)

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