COLUMBUS—Columbus Metropolitan Library’s (CML) Local History & Genealogy team has released its winter/spring lineup of virtual and in-person programs. All are free and open to all. Masks are required to attend all in-person programs. In-person programs could change to virtual programs depending on public health needs. Highlights include:
A Murder in Amish Ohio
Thursday, Feb. 10 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker will discuss their new book chronicling the 1957 murder of a young Holmes County man. The so-called “Amish murder” opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community.
African American Genealogy: The Benefaction of You with Nicka Sewell-Smith
Thursday, Feb. 24 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Discover ways you can identify your free or enslaved ancestors and learn how DNA is helping families torn apart by slavery.
Fire in the Big House: America’s Deadliest Prison Disaster
Thursday, April 21 | 6:30-8 p.m.
Register at crowdcast.io/columbuslibrary closer to the event date
April 30 marks the 90th anniversary of the Ohio Penitentiary fire that killed over 300 inmates and brought international attention to the overcrowded conditions in America’s prisons. Author Mitchel P. Roth will join us to discuss his book.
Click here to see the full winter/spring schedule.
