Preble County Convention & Visitors Bureau honors local volunteers
R-H Staff
Preble County’s historic covered bridges are a big draw for travelers across the state and beyond, and during the pandemic have provided safe driving tours for visitors to enjoy while practicing social distancing. Volunteers Larry and Carolyn Showalter of Eaton have for the past several years traveled the county ensuring the PCCVB’s Covered Bridge Map Brochures are stocked and available for visitors. The Showalters are pictured with PCCVB President Stephanie Garrett (far right).
Eddie Mowen Jr. | The Register-Herald
EATON The Preble County Convention & Visitors Bureau is saluting the power of travel by honoring its Tourism Volunteers of the Year during National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW).
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A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history:
♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in the spring of 1909. The prerecorded performance will premiere 8 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, on ELTC’s YouTube channel and be available for viewing through Feb. 28.
Wells’ work began in the early 1890s, and by 1909, she was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. She died in 1931 and received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her reporting.