History Section :: Page 4

• Sanders to discuss East Gym mural

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 30, 2016

  

  The YS Historical Society will sponsor a talk by Antioch College archivist Scott Sanders on Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m., in the Senior Center great room. The talk will concern the history of the mural in the East Gym of the Antioch College Wellness Center, which was painted by social realist painter and muralist Gilbert Wilson.

• Antioch College attracts generations

  By Megan BachmanJuly 2, 2015

  

  A few years ago, some 50 years after visiting his grandparents’ house as a child on West North College Street, Bo Waite purchased it, and moved in last summer.

• Springfield architectural tour comes to Yellow Springs

  By Aaron ZaremskyMay 20, 2015

  

  The Summer Tour Series gets under way this weekend in Springfield and finishes in August with an architectural investigation of Antioch College.

• Architectural bike tour— Builder Kline left mark on village

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 24, 2014

  

  Perched on a cliff side in the woods on Old Mill Road sits a house made almost entirely of glass and so close to the trees that its designer and original owner, John L. (Jack) Kline, had only to reach out his window to touch the birds.

• Annual vintage truck show

  By YS News StaffJuly 16, 2014

  

  Ertel Publishing’s Vintage Truck Magazine will host its 13th annual Vintage Truck Show which is a great family-friendly event! Featuring colorful and restored trucks from the early 1900s through modern times.

• Phyllis Jackson to be honored

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 16, 2013

  For years, Phyllis Lawson Jackson has been the “go-to” person for local history. The appeal of a historical perspective, she believes, is that even as history teaches us about the past, it also helps illuminate the present.

• Braving cold to show solidarity

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 22, 2013

  

  Cold temperatures didn’t keep away villagers from taking part in Monday’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day walk and service. See more photos.

• YS News press runs again, in Iowa

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 24, 2012

  

  A little known fact about the YS News’ old press: it’s still printing!

• Bubbles and Beer

  By Suzanne SzempruchJuly 19, 2012

  

  Well, the bubbles were then and the beer is now. Check out the bicycle on the far left of the ad, you can sit there now and order a beer at Peach’s on Xenia Ave.

• Present gives voices to village past

  By Megan BachmanMarch 8, 2012

  

  Yellow Springs’ founders and early settlers didn’t have Internet — they probably couldn’t have imagined it — but later generations are now using it to imagine the lives of former villagers.