------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 13-Jan-99 14:10 Subject: re: OH Bicentennial Celebration information ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, List, I finally heard from the Bicentennial Commission today. They want you to contact them to sign up as volunteers. They will send you the information they have and will put you on the mailing list for their newsletter. If you offer to help she said you can basically put in as much or as little time as you have available. She gave me the website which apparently was down last week but is supposed to be ok now. Address: http://www.ohio200.com Their email address is: bicentennial@winslo.state.oh.us It's also on their web site. I talked to Samatha Sargent. The phone no. I used is: 614/466-2000. You may have to leave a message. There may be an 800 no. on the web site though. I forgot to ask. They are also looking for buildings, etc. upon which to place historic markers. Maggie, what about all those courthouse buildings? Do they all have them? The person to contact for the markers is Carmilita Boyer. They will send you an application. They are also doing an encycloypedia on Ohio (like a timeline). I asked about county histories and she said to submit that idea. It would probably be a matter of taking off from where Beers and other authors left off at the time of the 1903 centennial. Well, it sounds like a great event to get involved in, and they need a lot of volunteers I gather. Marilyn Brown' mhersey@aol.com !^NavFont02F051D0006NGHHLf9383 Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with good health, good friends, and more than enough good luck. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*