Bailey Yoder will talk about the exhibition Play Like a Girl: Massillon Women’s Tiger Teams from Gym Class to Title IX, which can be seen at the Massillon Museum.
Massillon Museum to offer Do the Mu!
COURTESY OF THE MASSILLON MUSEUM
The Massillon Museum will offer its next Do the Mu! program at noon May 25 on MCTV channels 21 and 621 and its YouTube pages, featuring Bailey Yoder’s presentation “Play Like a Girl.”
Yoder will talk about the exhibition “Play Like a Girl: Massillon Women’s Tiger Teams from Gym Class to Title IX and girls’ basketball teams at the turn of the last century, which were organized by Massillon High School before the school instituted boys’ teams. She will include groundbreaking female athletes like golfer Eva Shorb and track star Kelly Bodiford Banks.
Harvey paintings return to History Center after digitization project
Molly Boatman photo
WILMINGTON The Clinton County History Center’s collection of Eli Harvey paintings, which were transported to the Ohio History Connection in November 2020 for digitization, have been returned to the museum.
The staff will reinstall numerous paintings and sketches on the walls of the Center’s museum in preparation for their season reopening on Friday, April 16.
A special thanks is given to Buffy and Molly Boatman, who volunteered to assist in transportation.
To view the paintings, tours can be scheduled in advance by calling 937-382-4684. Public hours for the 2021 season will be Fridays 1-4 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m.