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A People Set Apart
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The Immigrant Cocoon
Some five-thousand Central Europeans and people from the Levant migrated to the Cambridge, Ohio Coalfield between 1880 and World War I. Cocoon is the story of their European roots, and of their efforts to put down new roots in rural OhioÐa story of the merging of cultures in the American mixing bowl.This definitive work on the immigration and settling of the Slavic people in southeastern Ohio was originally published in 1994, and has been out of print for over two years.Dr. Lorle Porter tells their storyÐone of peasants resisting urbanity and Europeans reluctantly becoming American. Also included is extensive background material about the conditions in Central Europe that induced emigratio...
St. Patrick's People
St. Patrick's People is a book rich with heritage, filled with human interest, and steeped in tradition. Dr. Lorle Porter has woven the threads of Catholicism throughout her skillful story-telling, providing detailed maps of areas pertinent to the tale. Over 60 photographs and illustrations enhance the 170-pages of text, a fascinating timeline shows the Catholic experience in England/Ireland and America, and several detailed family pedigrees provide a larger picture of the people in the stories. For anyone whose interests lie in Ohio history, Irish/English emigration, Catholicism in the New World, or genealogy-this book is a must.
Sara's Table
The everyday work of women is brought to life by eight generations of fictional women named Sara. They represent the struggles and successes of life for women in the small village of New Concord, Ohio.
Politics & Peril
As America stumbled toward its worst domestic crisis-civil war-political tradition took on the garb of national issues. This is the story of that volatile century, and the people-locally well-known, or those forgotten-who made it happen. This charming study of an Ohio county seat in the nineteenth century might well be described as a microcosm of the American experience. The author...[gives] a clear exposition of how an Ohio town responded to the sectional controversy that led to civil war, [and] the lingering bitterness that plagued Mount Vernon in the aftermath of the war...an excellent example of how a professional historian can reclaim local history from the sentimentality of local antiq...
John Glenn's New Concord
I've always believed that New Concord and Muskingum College are the center of the universe, because if you get your start here, you can go anywhere. This quote from John Herschel Glenn Jr. is the perfect summation of a wonderfully Midwestern town that produced one of the great American citizens of all time. The Village of New Concord, founded in 1828, had humble enough beginnings. Over the course of the next century and a half, however, the growth of the entire country was played out on New Concord's stage as residents faced a series of revolutionary frontiers: Zane's Trace, the National Road, U.S. Route 40, Interstate 70, and finally, space. New Concord, like the rest of the country, struggled through two world wars, the Great Depression, and social turmoil. Unlike the rest of the country, it also produced a hero.
