Walking ancient Ohio
By Angela Shepherd - For The Times-Gazette
Members of the group check out their route for the day on a map in Greenfield before setting off on foot to make their way to Seip Mound.
Photo by Angela Shepherd
In bright orange T-shirts bearing a “Walking Ancient Ohio” logo, a group of people set out from Greenfield’s historical complex recently with the intent of covering 14 miles by foot to a point on U.S. Route 50 where they began a five-mile canoe journey to Seip Mound in Bainbridge.
The next day they were to cover 17 miles, with that leg of the journey bringing them by all the other associated earthworks Hopewell, Mound City, Hopeton and High Bank in Chillicothe as they make their way toward Newark in the coming weeks.
Within the lush Ohio River Valley lies the famous Serpent Mound effigy. It is an earthen mound aligned with the solstices, which rests on the ridge of a meteorite impact crater.
Duo connecting Hopewell sites experience rural Ohio along the way
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is on path to become World Heritage Site Sunday s group of walkers are pictured in front of Smith Tannery before they begin their trek. Shown from left to right are Steve Wilson and his wife, Jill; Melody Sawyer Richardson; Buck Niehoff; Hope Taft; Aaron Rourke; Kristina Rastaturina; Gary Meisner; Jim Scott and his wife, Donna Hartman; and Mary Mertz. (Photo by Angela Shepherd) Members of the group check out their route for the day on a map before setting off on foot Sunday morning to make their way to Seip Mound. (Photo by Angela Shepherd)
County native airs the unearthly
By: Nancy Kline Thursday, April 29, 2021 8:29 AM A stone in Gilboaâs Cholera cemetery lists âother childrenâ on the stone. Putnam County-born Melissa Davies recently began investigating Gilboaâs Cholera Cemetery, and rumors of otherworldly phenomena said to occur there. PUTNAM COUNTY Born and raised in Putnam County, Melissa (Luersman)
Davies has always enjoyed folklore. She is intrigued by unexplained
phenomena. Since 2018 she has pursued that interest by researching and
airing podcasts about nearly 40 locations in Ohio, including her most
recent site, the Gilboa Cholera Cemetery.
“I spent a couple of
months learning all I could, which was considerable,” said Davies about