*Monday, July 14,
2025: Residents
of Pioneer Ridge will find out about VICTORIA
WOODHULL: SHATTERING GLASS CEILINGS.
*Saturday, July 19,
2025; 6:30 p.m.: Take
a trip back in time with Foster Brown and Bette Lou Higgins when they
present CANAL SONGS AND STORIES for the 200th anniversary of the opening
of the Ohio-Erie Canal. The canal brought prosperity to the state
by providing a faster transportation route through the frontier. Farmers
could get their produce out for sale and they could purchase goods
from the East. Progress! The program will be presented at The
Cleveland Metroparks Brecksville Nature Center, 9000 Chippewa
Creek Dr. in Brecksville, Ohio. Tickets are $5.00/person. Contact
the Nature Center at 440-526-1012 for information and reservations.
*Wednesday, September
10, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. See
our newest documentary, VICTORIA
WOODHULL: SHATTERING GLASS CEILINGS at the downtown Newark
Library; 101 West Main Street in Newark, OH. Victoria was the
first woman to run for President in 1872 -- at a time when she couldn't
even vote for herself AND she was in jail on election day! The program
is FREE and open to the public. For more information, contact the
library at 740-349-5500.
*Monday, September
14, 2025: Residents
of Pioneer Ridge will hear some TALES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE.
*Friday, September
19, 2025; 12:30 p.m.: Hear
the story of Cleveland Browns Hall-Of-Famer, Dante Lavelli when the
Independence Library at 6361 Selig Drive in Independence, Ohio
hosts a presentation of DANTE LAVELLI: HE JUST WANTED TO PLAY BALL.
This storytelling program is FREE and open to the public. For more
information call the library at 216-447-0160.
*Thursday, October
30, 2025; 6:30 p.m.: Get
in the spirit with OHIO GHOST STORIES at the Milan-Berlin
Library; 19 East Church Street; Milan, OH. Hear some stories from
the state's haunted past in this storytelling program that is FREE
and open to the public. For more information call the library at 419-499-4117
*Monday, November
10, 2025: Residents
of Pioneer Ridge will commemorate Veteran's Day with the storytelling
program, MEET MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE.
*Wednesday, March
11, 2026; 7:00 p.m.: GRANDMA
GATEWOOD: OHIO'S LEGENDARY HIKER will
be presented by
the Mayfield Township Historical Society at 6621 Wilson Mills Rd.
in Mayfield Village, Ohio. Travel back to 1955 an take a journey with
the first woman to solo thru-hike the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail
as Bette Lou Higgins presents storytelling program that is free and
open to the public. For more information contact the society at (440)
461-0055 or e-mail
them.
*Thursday, March 26,
2026; 6:30 p.m.: See
the new documentary, VICTORIA
WOODHULL: SHATTERING GLASS CEILINGS about our first female Presidential
Candidate. The South
Newbury Union Chapel will host this screening at the Kent
State University Geauga Campus at 14111 Claridon-Troy Road in
Burton, Ohio at the Clark Commons. Ohioan Victoria Woodhull ran in
1872 at a time when women didn't even have the right to vote. As if
that isn't bad enough -- she wasn't even old enough to BE president
if she had won! The presentation is FREE and open to the public. For
more information, e-mail
the South Newbury Union Chapel