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Artist and Musician featured for the Month of May
ZANESVILLE, Ohio- Two artists have been named artist of the month, including a musician.
Sharon Dean is a member of the ZAAP Gallery Her current collection displays her symbolic and creative visual narratives of her perceptions, interpretations and inspirations on subjects such as Standing Rock, The Great Serpent Mound and the Cycles of Life.
“She has lots of color and a lot of movement. This particular show has hidden images that when she puts the black light on it then something different appears then what you see right now. That will be part of the First Friday show,” ZAAP Vice Director Crystal Fuller said.
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.
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Ancient American Indians in eastern North America built a variety of earthworks over many centuries and for many different purposes.
Ohio’s Adena culture, around 2,300 years ago, built conical burial mounds and small, circular earthen enclosures. The succeeding Hopewell culture built huge enclosures in a variety of shapes. And about 1,000 years ago, the Fort Ancient culture built at least two mounds in the shapes of animals – the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County and the so-called Alligator Mound, actually an Underwater Panther, in Licking County.
Both the Great Serpent and the Underwater Panther are powerful spirits of the Beneath World in the traditions of many American Indian tribes.
Happy Statehood Day, Ohio! 17 things to know about the 17th state in the Union Lisa Powell
Ohio commemorates March 1 as
Statehood Day. On this day in 1803, the Ohio General Assembly met for the first time in Chillicothe, then the state capital.
Here are 17 things to know about the 17th state in the Union, according to the Ohio History Connection.
1. Ohio is an Iroquois word that means “great river.” The Iroquois Indians began settling in the region in 1650.
2. Ohio became the 17th state of the Union when President Thomas Jefferson endorsed the United States Congress’s decision to grant statehood on Feb. 19, 1803. Due to an oversight, Ohio wasn’t “officially” admitted to the United States until Aug. 7, 1953. Congress never took a formal vote back in 1803.