This week I had the opportunity to participate in a really fun event where I got to share some of my work on Dayton history and urban redevelopment with Generation Dayton’s community of young professionals. It was called “Gem City Connect: A Guide to Living, Working, and Thriving in Dayton,” hosted by The Hub at […]
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A Historic Photo Tour of Downtown Dayton in 1900 (Video)
This year I’ve led a few different walking tours of Downtown Dayton, including for Preservation Dayton’s tour series and for the Downtown Dayton Art in the City event in August. But last week I put together a very different type of downtown tour: a photo tour from around 1900 that I created as a video […]
Local History Talks at Trolley Stop in the Oregon District!
I’ve been giving local history talks since my Lost Dayton book came out in 2018, but this year I’ve started trying something new. Up to this point I’d always just relied on other organizations to find me and request a talk. Over the past few years I’d be asked to speak from time to time […]
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 […]