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Heritage
Modern-Day Audubon If the sight
of a 10-year-old boy carrying a .22-caliber rifle and sketch pad concerned
other passengers on the Cincinnati streetcar, they never mentioned it to
him. After all, it was 1934, the height of the Great Depression. And if
the boy with the mop of hair and big smile returned home from his
adventures near the Ohio River with a brace of rabbits, more power to him.
The sketchpad may have puzzled the passengers a bit more. Whatever he
hunted or fished or observed, the boy wanted to draw. Nature was art to
him, and even at an early age, he wanted to be like his hero: John James
Audubon, the 19th-century master of wildlife art.“I wished I had been born
a hundred years earlier so I could have floated down the river with
Audubon on one of his expeditions,” says John Ruthven, still a little
wistful, even after a career that has brought international acclaim,
scores of friends and the unofficial title of modern-day
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People
Frontier Drama More than 250 years ago, when our state was a wild frontier, a spot northeast of Piqua was the fault line between two massive geopolitical forces — France and England, which began playing out their dreams of world dominion in the distant forests of Ohio. Today, that field along the Great Miami River is quiet and still, dotted with rolled hay bales and a full mile from the nearest historical marker that explains the bloody clash that happened here.
This was the site of a large Miami Indian village called Pickawillany — a place that became a violent touch point between the European nations in the years leading up to the French and Indian War.Despite its importance, Pickawillany remains obscure today. ”
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