Come visit the Walnut Hills Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library for the opening event of “Cincinnati’s Lost Founders,” an exhibit created with support from the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Ohio Humanities.

The opening evening event will take place at the Walnut Hills branch library’s auditorium. It will bring together public historians from the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Northern Kentucky University, and Monticello to talk about the importance of listening, documenting, and sharing family stories. By sharing the experiences of the Fossett and Clark families, we can get a better understanding of life for many people in Cincinnati over time. It will highlight ideas surrounding the questions of whose stories are protected, whose stories are shared, and how do we increase our ways of communicating them. The panel will encourage participants to reflect on their own stories and how to tell them. The community gathering at Café Vivace, the neighborhood Jazz venue, will supplement that by sharing a facet of Mr. Clark’s life and his story with others.

This exhibit was supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant.

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