Speaker Series – Terrorizing Immigrants and Catholics: the Ohio KKK in the 1920s
For our fifth installment in the Landscape of Community Speaker Series, the Southeast Ohio History Center welcomes William Trollinger of the University of Dayton on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 5:30PM. Having virtually disappeared in the late nineteenth century, the Ku Klux Klan exploded onto the national in the early
Annual Fundraiser Sponsors
Today is the day! The Hunchback of Notre Dame, silent Film and Organ concert with Dennis James. Tickets are still available at the front desk. $50 for Members and $60 for Non Members. A Huge Thanks to All Our Sponsors. Without your support this event wouldn’t be possible.
NIGHT Walking Tour Historic Athens Asylum – October 31, 2019 10:00PM
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 30, 2019 10:00 PM THIS IS A SPECIAL TOUR AT 10PM. LIMITED SPACE. TICKETS ARE $50 EACH You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! THIS
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum – October 31, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 31, 2019 5:00PM You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! Tour the famous Athens Asylum during its sesquicentennial year (1868-2018). Meet at the Kennedy Museum
NIGHT Walking Tour Historic Athens Asylum – October 30, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 30, 2019 10:00PM THIS IS A SPECIAL TOUR AT 10PM. LIMITED SPACE. TICKETS ARE $50 EACH You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! THIS IS
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum – October 30, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 30, 2019 5:00PM You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! Tour the famous Athens Asylum during its sesquicentennial year (1868-2018). Meet at the Kennedy Museum
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum -2 TOURS October 27, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 27, 2019 2:00PM & 4:00PM You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! Tour the famous Athens Asylum during its sesquicentennial year (1868-2018). Meet at the
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum – October 20, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 20, 2019 2:00PM You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! Tour the famous Athens Asylum during its sesquicentennial year (1868-2018). Meet at the Kennedy Museum
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum – October 13, 2019
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum October 13, 2019 2:00 PM You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! Tour the famous Athens Asylum during its sesquicentennial year (1868-2018). Meet at
Tales Of Southeastern Ohio
Dave Norris and Ron Mash of D & R Studio LLC have created a YouTube channel with Tales of Southeastern Ohio.Here they present video features all about the stories, legends, music and lore of Southeastern Ohio. Tales Of Southeastern Ohio is a production of D & R Studio and Hometown
The Community Within With Ric Sheffield – Thursday August 22, 2019 5:30PM
Many rural areas in Ohio have long-established black communities that are often invisible to the larger white communities in which they reside. This program relates the adventure of reclaiming the lost history of African Americans in Knox County, Ohio while explaining the benefits of including minority populations within celebrations of
Brew Week – Moon Beer’s Eve
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the July 1969 lunar landing and Ohio Brew Week, George Eberts and Tom O’Grady, a couple of stargazers and veteran tipplers, will peruse the landscape of beers with a moonstruck moniker. Moon-themed brews will be available during the event!
Brew Week – Historic Breweries Of Ohio
Join the Southeast Ohio History Center during Ohio Brew Week for a glance back at some of the early geography and history of brewing in the state of Ohio. Mason Chambers and Tom O’Grady will recall old breweries and old brands on Wednesday, July 17 at 5pm at the History
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! ALL REGULAR ASYLUM TOURS WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAYS OF EACH MONTH FROM 2:00PM-4:00PM UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED Our schedule for
December 16th, 2018: Schedule for Athens Asylum Walking Tour
Join us for our next Athens Asylum Walking Tour on Sunday, December 16 at 2:00 PM! You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2018, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! ALL REGULAR ASYLUM TOURS WILL BE HELD ON THE THIRD
September 16: Schedule for Athens Asylum Walking Tours
Join us for our next Athens Asylum Walking Tour on Sunday, September 16 at 2:00 PM! You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2018, just call us at 740-592-2280 and choose the gift shop option! ALL REGULAR ASYLUM TOURS WILL BE HELD ON THE THIRD
Genealogy Open House June 30th
Please come join us on Saturday, June 30th from 11:00am to 1:00pm for a day of learning how to look for long-lost ancestors, find out where you come from and why the genealogy craze has taken the country! Programs like “Who do You Think You Are?”, “Find your Roots” and
Online Museum Store Expanding
You can now purchase many of your favorite Museum Store items online! Find your Athens Asylum tee shirts, pint glasses, posters and books, Southeast Ohio related books and reference material Growing Up in Athens, A Collection of Memories book Local art work Exhibit items such as our Athens Asylum related
“The Athens Asylum- 150 Years of a Healing Landscape” OPEN NOW!
For 150 years, the Athens Asylum has been one of our region’s most notable institutions and complex of buildings. Construction began in 1868. The original cost of construction was $621,000 (equivalent to $15 million today). This facility was not just a hospital. It was its own small community consisting of
Book search now available online for The Levering Library and The Jim and Shirley Hayes Genealogy Center
You can now search for any of our books online through our new system. You can search by name, author, title or keyword. We will be adding additional searchable holdings in the future. To access the data bank, click here; Library/Genealogy Book search: Some examples of the searchable books include:
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