Overview

Some notable Buckeyes approach life from a peculiar vantage Ohio has produced more than its share of eccentric men and women, whose peculiar ideas, bizarre behaviors, and outlandish antics have served to make the world more interesting. Among them are a Native who accurately predicted a solar eclipse in 1806, a failed merchant who convinced many people that the Earth was hollow in 1818, sisters who fell out of favor with the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century because they were too scandalous--or perhaps too progressive--and a minister who became convinced, in 1908, that the Garden of Eden was in southern Ohio. From John Chapman and Annie Oakley to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker illuminate Ohioans who took the road less traveled and, sometimes one that wasn't even there.

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""Everything one says and does is either a magnet which pulls people together, and makes the world better, or a wedge which pushes people apart, and makes the world worse."" --Jim Bowsher, eccentric Ohioan

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A graduate of Miami and Ohio State Universities, David Meyers has written a number of local histories, as well as several novels and works for the stage. He was recently inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame for his contributions to local history. Elise Meyers Walker is a graduate of Hofstra University and Ohio University. She has collaborated with her father on a dozen local histories, including Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate, Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio and A Murder in Amish Ohio. They are both available for presentations. The authors' website is www.explodingstove.com or follow them on Facebook at explodingstove and Instagram @explodingstove.

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