by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 14, 2013 | History Highlights
by Jen Graham, Ohio History Service Corps member at the Oberlin Heritage Center As a historian, I’ve fallen in love with letters. There is a striking liminality in reading someone else’s mail. It’s as if, by unfolding the delicate creases of yellowed paper and losing...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Oct 20, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent One of the most romanticized aspects of the Underground Railroad is the secret rooms and tunnels that were used to hide enslaved people seeking their freedom. And naturally it would be expected that a staunchly...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 21, 2013 | Abolition, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The winter of 1856 was a particularly harsh one – harsh enough that the Ohio River froze solid in January, something that only happened every few years. When it did happen, enslaved Americans on the...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Aug 12, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent I’ve decided for my next two blog entries to tell the stories of two Southern rebels who had a tremendous impact on pre-Civil War Oberlin. But these weren’t Confederate rebels, they were Southern...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | May 29, 2013 | History Highlights
By Mary Anne Cunningham, Assistant to the Director Last month, OHC staff visited with Michael and Dorene McAndrews of Brooksville, Florida, who traveled to Oberlin as part of a journey to research and document the history of their restored 1940 DeSoto, once hailed as...
