Over about the past year and a half I’ve been slowly but surely recording videos about local history, preservation, and redevelopment for my Dayton history YouTube channel. A couple weeks ago I was excited to see that my latest video, about what happened to a street where a surprising number of prominent early Dayton business […]
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New Video on Dayton History
I’ve been writing articles about the history of Dayton for a few years now (as well as a book!), but only recently recorded my first video on the subject. Thankfully I’d been playing around with recording and screensharing for working remotely which first culminated in my series of three videos all about spotting and avoiding […]
My Lost Dayton Book is Released!
For about the last two years I’ve been working on a book about Dayton history, and that research inspired me to start my Dayton Vistas blog. I’m excited to say that my book Lost Dayton, published by The History Press, is now officially released! Here’s the blurb: Many of the places that helped make Dayton a center of […]
Working on Dayton Vistas at the Gignite Side-Gig Incubator
For the past eight weeks I’ve been participating in a program called Gignite, a side-gig incubator founded by Olivia Barrow who wrote for the Dayton Business Journal for a few years and is now a writer and entrepreneur in Madison, WI. Here’s some of her description of Gignite from her website: There was a (very […]
New Website on Dayton History, Development
Another year, another new website for me. And I’m really excited that this one might turn into something bigger. I’ve been living and working here in Dayton, Ohio for nearly five years now, and it didn’t take long for me to become fascinated by the city and its history. I probably couldn’t have located Dayton […]