Brent Carson to speak at Myers Inn on February 12

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Delaware County His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety Pres­i­dent Brent Car­son will speak to the Big Wal­nut Area His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety at 7:30 p.m. Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 12, in the Myers Inn at 45 South Colum­bus Street in Sunbury.

Car­son will show his DVD, Fri­day Night in Down­town Delaware, that fea­tures pho­tographs of Delaware from 1925 to 1975.

Car­son is a true Delaware County native — born in Delaware, grad­u­ated from Delaware Hayes High School and taught at Delaware Willis Junior High School until he retired.

Car­son has been a pil­lar in the Delaware County His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety for many years and co-chaired the 2008 Delaware County Bicen­ten­nial Cel­e­bra­tion with Rick Helwig.

For the 2008 Cel­e­bra­tion Car­son helped pro­duce a DVD based on the first Ohio State foot­ball game that was played against Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity in Delaware.

Around the same time, Car­son and a group of stu­dents explored sto­ries of Native Amer­i­cans and Early Set­tlers of Delaware County. The project was filmed and made into a DVD spon­sored by the Vogel fam­ily and pre­sented at the Vogel Series at Ohio Wes­leyan University.

Today Car­son can be found giv­ing pro­grams to schools and com­mu­nity clubs, giv­ing tours of the his­tor­i­cal soci­ety and the sur­round­ing area, and always col­lect­ing his­tory and sto­ries of the county.

The Big Wal­nut Area His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety meets the sec­ond Tues­day of each month in the Myers Inn Museum, 45 South Colum­bus Street, fac­ing the south­west cor­ner of his­toric Sun­bury Vil­lage Square.

The Myers Inn Museum is open from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Thurs­days, Fri­days and Sun­days; and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat­ur­days. Admis­sion is by donation.

Visit the his­tor­i­cal soci­ety web­site at < BigWalnutHistory.org > to learn more about the soci­ety, and click the Local His­tory but­ton to learn more about east­ern Delaware County history.

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