Pointing In The Sky…

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Thank you to Shawn Wood of Studio7 for this spectacular image of the McKinley National Memorial receiving the love it deserves. You thought your work was a challenge…. Mr. Wood’s photograph gives us an amazingly rare look at the festoons of ivy that ring the top of the monument. To the artist the ivy symbolizes McKinley’s character-constancy according to a September 29, 1907 Repository article that appears one day before the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial. In Architect Magonigle’s plans it calls for the festoons of ivy. Each ivy leaf has a bronze post to lift it up and away from the granite surface to create an added dimension.

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Bicentennial Celebration, Groovy Director…

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Thank you to Gary Brown for his very interesting Monday After article: Remembering 1976 and the Bicentennial in Stark County! The article that appears in today’s Repository features longtime volunteer at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, Tom Haas when he was the Director of the Canton American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. He went on to take the position of Education Director at the Stark County History Center before later going on to a longtime career at WHBC Studios. Tom is in his 7th year of being a volunteer researcher in the Ramsayer Research Library. Thank you Tom for your hard work and dedication to our community.

Preserve Your Now: Bury A Time Capsule…

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365 Reasons: Today let me give you a reason to bury a time capsule. When I first met my wife when I was 19 years old, she had a neighbor lady who finally died when she was 103 years old, oh the stories she had to tell. She told me about attending President William McKinley’s funeral in Canton Ohio. I wish she had buried a time-capsule and I could dig it up today. Why not preserve your now, which will become history for a future generation. Choose carefully what you include in your capsule, you want it to accurately represent your snapshot in time. Can you imagine what your great-grandchildren might think about today’s newspaper or CD or current best selling book? Go ahead, think beyond yourself, and invest into the future.

By Art Snow, Canton Native

Treaty of Greenville…

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In 2011 a boy named Zane visited our museum with his class. On his history tour he viewed a mural we have in our Stark County Story called The Treaty of Greenville “The Signing” by Ohioan Howard Chandler Christy. Zane went back to his school and created this one of a kind work based on our copy of this famous piece.

Then & Now Kobacker’s Department Store…

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Then Kobacker’s Department Store 1955 North West Corner of Market Avenue North & 5th Street NW. Now a Parking Lot at Market Avenue North & 5th Street NW.

Tales from the Negatives: Get Technical…

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In February of this year Archivist, Mark Holland discovered a clue that solved a 48 year old mystery. See how this happened and get to know a little bit about two Stark County Photographers…

Then & Now Main Circus…

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A Little Then & Now on this sunny Wednesday afternoon! Then, a Circus coming to town Public Square Canton, Ohio Saturday May 7, 1904. Now, Central Plaza in downtown Canton. 

Mercy Hospital Story Part II 1911 Building through the Market Avenue Wing…

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Mark Holland, Archivist of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, helps to express as a museum our support to the people in the medical world who are fighting CoVid 19, and treating the patients as well as the disease. Today we present to you Part II in a series on Mercy Hospital. We want to show you the origins of our local medical institutions and personnel.

Mercy Hospital Part I McKinley House through the 1911 Building…

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Mark Holland, Archivist at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, helps to express as a museum our support to the people in the medical world who are fighting CoVid 19, and treating the patients as well as the disease. Today we present to you Part I in a series on Mercy Hospital. We want to show you the origins of our local medical institutions and personnel.