OHI-YO

GREAT RIVER

Histories are never told in isolation.
– Angela Davis

The Hillsboro Story (Book)
a single memory calls me back to my hometown of Hillsboro, Ohio, to investigate what becomes a big Civil Rights story and multi-voiced document of history

No Strangers Here Today
a Quaker farm woman, my Ancestor, reveals through coded language in her 1864 diary, her quiet active resistance to slavery and war

Great Serpent
stories from the creative call and response evoked by the astounding ancient earthwork in southern Ohio near my childhood home

Outtakes
excerpts and outtakes arranged from The Hillsboro Story designed to bring political history and immediate experiences into play