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Into the Looking Glass: Southeast Ohio’s glassblowing history

Glassblowing has an extensive history, but in the Appalachian region, it has a story of its own. By the late 1800s, Lancaster emerged as a center of the American glass industry. More than a century later, molten glass still burns at the heart of Ohio’s pressed-glass capital. At the...

Kat Carlson, April 23, 2026 3 min read

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Native American legend inspires ‘Lost Treasure of Buckchitawa’

Monroe County welcomed a new event last summer, the “Lost Treasures of Buckchitawa.” The event is a scavenger hunt, which connects local legends to a fun event for families. Casey Bott grew up watching The Goonies, a 1985 film about children on the hunt for lost treasure. Bott wished he could...

Suzanne Piper, April 20, 2026 4 min read

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Slack’s Book Barn is escape to analog

The hard-to-miss sign, which sits at the bottom of Book Barn’s drive | Photo by Grace Miller Trying to escape cyberspace? Slack’s Book Barn is the place to unplug. The former barn-turned-bookstore is a two-level building filled top to bottom with bookshelves and smells like...

Tyson Bernath, December 9, 2025 3 min read

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Framing Fairfield With Young Artists

Three red and white barns on the Fairfield County Fairgrounds stand against the mountainous Appalachian landscape of Mount Pleasant. Ninety-four wooden quilt squares hang neatly around the barns’ perimeters, each one colorfully and stylistically different from the next, and just about every single one is...

Maggie Allwein, December 8, 2025 4 min read

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Libby’s Pumpkin Patch Returns

Bountiful pumpkins pile up at the patch | Photo by Ally Parker A bead of sweat rolls down the temple of Rachel Lewis, one of Libby’s Pumpkin Patch co-owners, before dropping to the floor. It’s an unusually humid evening for late September in Albany, but...

Isabella Pedrera, December 8, 2025 4 min read

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Hancrafted Heritage

The Columbus Washboard Company keeps American craftmanship alive The clang of metal striking metal echoes through the air, its sharp, rhythmic and familiar. Inside the Columbus Washboard Company of Logan, that sound isn’t just noise; it’s legacy. American Traditions In a century-old brick building, workers...

Anna Hanes, December 5, 2025 3 min read

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Into the Looking Glass: Southeast Ohio’s glassblowing history

Native American legend inspires ‘Lost Treasure of Buckchitawa’

Slack’s Book Barn is escape to analog

Framing Fairfield With Young Artists

Libby’s Pumpkin Patch Returns

Hancrafted Heritage

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