Johnny Bench never had it easy.When he was 6 years old, he picked cotton for two cents a pound, to afford a pair of new blue jeans. When he was 17, the bus that carried him and his high school teamma
Particular Places: A Traveler’s Guide to the Best Ohio Road Trips (Orange Frazer Press, $16.95) shows that there is much more to the Buckeye State than cornfields and cows. In fact, according to autho
Tim Harrison, Oakwood, Ohio's police officer, paramedic, firefighter and exotic animal rescuer has penned another collection of exotic animal rescues from all over Ohio. Harrison who now has a nation
Out of Step is the story of a poor little rich girl, an identical twin, and the daughter of the famous king and queen of ballroom dancing, Arthur and Kathryn Murray. As Arthur builds his dancing empi
The greatest tragedy in all of American historical biography is that President Rutherford Hayes has been thrown in the trash. Ignored-or worse-dismissed as an average president. Hayes has, since he le
A City That Sings: Cincinnati's Choral Tradition 1800- 2012 is the first full-length chronicle of the Queen City'scontributions to choral music. It is a story of church choirsand community choruses,
MADE A BUSINESS BOO BOO that cost a bundle? Just fired a family member? Can kahki pants seal the deal? Business owners large and small reveal to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Marcia Pledger their bigge
What cookbook do you own that's been written by an engineer? Chances are…none, until now. Colleen Brethen, a project engineer, takes her attention to inventive solutions and combines it with her passi
The images and stories here reconnect us with the city's century of greatness, from 1850 to 1950, when the urban fabric was tightly woven with an eclectic mix of residential neighborhoods, parks, shop
He has been cursed since age 15, carrying always the appositive affixed eternally to his name--the youngest pitcher in major league baseball. And yet the Joe Nuxhall story neither begins nor ends with
Anthropology Unmasked is the 100-year history of one of America's leading Departments of Anthropology. It showns the growth of the American Muesum of Natural History, from it's uncertain beginnings in
My name is Dewey—Inspector Dewey. I live in the big green house on Hampshire Avenue with my family: Thumper, Lily, and Anna. I am the Big Cat—responsible for keeping everyone safe and in order. I do t
There is nothing new about golf getaways. They are big business and big fun. With the economy still shaky and Congress still trying to understand derivatives, getaways to the Carolinas, Florid
The University of Cincinnati’s football team has always been an after thought to sports fans in Cincinnati, Ohio. That all changed when Coach Brian Kelly came along and led the team to its first bowl
It’s the greatest untold story of the Civil War, …and one of the newest. For 150 years, the battlefields of Virginia, Gettysburg, and Antietam were what Americans thought of first when they thought o
The Dayton Air Show A Photographic Celebration covers the past 5 years of the Dayton Air Show. This air show is attended by hundreds of thousands of people who come from all over the state to see plan
Little Leaguer Dominic is struggling with his pitching and his temper. He doesn't want to cheer for his teammates when he's pitching poorly or is mad. But his passionate coach—who is also his father—t
