Ohio's Program 60 - My Second Experience

Almost a year ago I wrote about my first experience with Ohio's Program 60.  That post can be found HERE.   I did not take a second term in the summer because I wanted to take a longer class.  I enjoyed that first summer session but it was a great deal of information to cover in one month.  In the fall I made an  error in getting signed up.  I do find the computer enrollment a bit of a challenge at OSU.  But I managed to figure out the system well enough to get signed up again for a class that started in January and class is ending this week.  I took the final quiz Monday and turned in my final essay yesterday.  The class I took this time was an overview of Ohio History.  For text books we used Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance and Builders of Ohio by Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce.  We also watched two or three video lectures a week that were presented by our professor Russ (William) Coil .  We took weekly quizzes and participated in weekly discussions.  There were longer mid-term and final quizzes and a six page paper to write for midterms and finals.  Since I am a Hoosier transplant to Ohio and did not have the background in grade school of Ohio History, this class was a great overview for me.  I would like to audit a more in depth history class sometime in the future.  I would also like to audit some classes in writing.  If you are enrolled in Program 60 there are many benefits besides auditing classes.  There are student prices for athletic events and Amazon Prime discounts.  I am often finding new things I can use my OSU student status for.  I highly recommend Program60 for seniors in Ohio.  To learn more about the program click HERE and enjoy the video that follows.

World War I Nurses Project 2017/2018

The last couple of years I have enjoyed working with the county I was born in on their WWI project. I was asked to research and write about the nurses from their county that served in WWI.  The group encouraged me in my writing and I appreciate the opportunity that they provided me with.  Here is a hub to the links that will take you to the things I wrote for them.

Minnie Antrim

Hattie Carfrae 

Mary Alice Lamb

Katherine Kreutzer

Mable Munro

Mary Swain

The Flu

Local Red Cross Formation

      Committee One
      Committee Two 
      Committee Three
      Committee Four


Higby Deitrich Morgan

Joe Hiner


Currently I am involved in a rather long writing project related to my own family history.  But someday perhaps I will get the opportunity to work on another project like the WWI one.  I enjoyed it very much.

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

The  Great Alone

by

Kristin Hannah

My daytime library book group book selection for this month is The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. I was looking forward to the book because I really liked The Nightingale by the same author.  I was disappointed.  The author does a great job with her writing style and description in this novel.  I felt like I was there.  But some of  the primary characters I did not like.  I especially had no respect for the mother of the girl named Leni.  Leni's mother was named Cora.  She wasn't a person who made a mistake here and there.  Cora made one bad choice after another and kept Leni in an  unhealthy situation.   Cora's husband and Leni's father was an abusive drunk.  There were many opportunities to leave him and people in the community offered to help.  Cora just refused help and refused to get Leni into a safe home environment.  I am not a fan of reading about abuse anyway and in this book the abusive situation just drags on and on.  The book has the feel of a young adult novel and Leni and Cora are over bonded.  I would not recommend it to others although the book is a wonderful example of how to write description in a manner that holds interest.  Please click on the book title and the author's name above for more information and enjoy the video that follows and form your own opinion.