Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful history here. Over the years people of toledo have built things, known as the glass city because the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston to toledo in 1800s drawn by natural gas and also sand, edwin drummer baby brought his new England Glass Company to toledo and opened a plants on at street north toledo and its on the exact same site today p or that was 1988 and Owens Corning here downtown toledo a fortune 500 company invented
And Megan Phelps Roper recounts growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist church. Watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. And be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the Miami Book Fair in november on booktv on cspan2. Coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. Later the toledo van band crash of 1931. We begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. They had built things. The first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. Drawn by rich reservoir natural gas. Brought his Glass Company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. Its on the same site today. The glass industry was big and important into in toledo once did that. As the eco
Richard johnson was the man that took out tecumseh. They came up with a slogan for him. It was the First Official president ial Campaign Slogan of the day, and it went empty. Dempsey, ramsey dempsey, colonel johnson killed to come see. You have to realize that at that time, tecumseh was the fiercest warrior of the day. He had a lot of notoriety. So for someone to take him out in the midst of a battle in handtohand combat, no less, when he was considered so adept. It was it was a feat. Tecumseh was actually born in ohio. They believe around chillicothe, ohio. He was part of two very significant events that transpired here in northwest ohio area. Was here in 1794 in a battle cahe battle of Fallen Timbers, as a result of that battle. The greenville treaty was signed a year later and they ended up giving away to the americans about three quarters of what today is ohio, except for, ironically, this northwest corner of the state. It was called the great swamp at that time with the signing of
Transpired. The history books all say that Richard Johnson was the man that took out tecumseh. They came up with a slogan for him. It was the First Official president ial Campaign Slogan of the day, and it went empty. Dempsey, ramsey dempsey, colonel johnson killed to come see. You have to realize that at that time, tecumseh was the fiercest warrior of the day. He had a lot of notoriety. So for someone to take him out in the midst of a battle in handtohand combat, no less, when he was considered so adept. It was it was a feat. Tecumseh was actually born in ohio. They believe around chillicothe, ohio. He was part of two very significant events that transpired here in northwest ohio area. Heas here in 1794 in a battle called the battle of Fallen Timbers, as a result of that battle. The greenville treaty was signed a year later and they ended up giving away to the americans about three quarters of what today is ohio, except for, ironically, this northwest corner of the state. It was calle
The first rhode island regiment. This is the first integrated regiment. This is part of the flag carried by that regimen during the battle of rhode island on august 28 and 29, 1778. We know that because this particular note, which is that, in 1878, almost a hundred years after the battle, pieces of flag at the battle of rhode island, it is modest, humble, just a small piece of fabric, but tells an extraordinary story about the people fighting for their and in a war in the name of that freedom. Then we have perhaps one of the pieces of evidence about the worst side of the conflict, which is the violence. This is a cannonball. It is a solid shot found on a field, not very far from here. This is solid iron which can cause an extraordinary amount of damage. While it is attributed to the battle of rhode island, we are not positive that it actually was part of the battle. It is really large. It comes from the kind of canon that the americans do not have at the time, even though the americans