FREDERICKTOWN — The news this week of a bank robbery in Centerburg reminded me of Knox County’s infamous 1934 bank robbery in Gambier by members of John Dillinger’s gang, which we’ve talked about here before. A lesser-known event, though, is the robbery that took place on Dec. 30, 1933, in Fredericktown. Digging into the story proves […]
Mark Sebastian Jordan
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Mansfield’s eccentric “witch” topic of new book, CRF museum talk on Oct. 16
LOUDONVILLE—The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum kicks off the next Speaker Series by welcoming back historian and author Mark S. Jordan on Oct. 16 to discuss the topic of his new book The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise. The frontier town of Mansfield had already had its share of eccentrics, including mystic/businessman […]