• Steve Roush 15 November 2018

    Two well-known Highland Countians pass away the very same day

    Ladies and gentlemen, after I penned an offering last week on how the local bar association unanimously recommended vacating and tearing down the venerable Highland County Courthouse in uptown Hillsboro back in 1960, I have been asked multiple times how I stumbled across such an article that was published decades ago. Well, to be totally honest with you, I simply stumbled across that story.
  • Steve Roush 7 November 2018
    Bar association passes resolution to recommend new courthouse for Highland County
    The older generation might remember the old Hillsboro fire station that stood on the corner of West Walnut and South High streets that burned down a long, long time ago. My dad tells me he thinks it happened around 1948 and that Hillsboro made the news because the waterworks facility also burned down the same year.
  • Steve Roush 7 November 2018
    Bar association passes resolution to recommend new courthouse for Highland County
    The older generation might remember the old Hillsboro fire station that stood on the corner of West Walnut and South High streets that burned down a long, long time ago. My dad tells me he thinks it happened around 1948 and that Hillsboro made the news because the waterworks facility also burned down the same year.
  • Steve Roush 27 September 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 10
    Ladies and gentlemen, if they would ever decide to do a “Mount Rushmore” of Highland County journalists, Granville Barrere would have to be up on that mountain.
  • Steve Roush 19 September 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 9
    Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to the Barrere boys in the newspaper business, we’ve reached the final Barrere, so to speak.
  • Steve Roush 13 September 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 8
    Ladies and gentlemen, in our recent discourse, we’ve examined the life and times of the Barrere boys in the newspaper business. In the 1880s, Col. George Washington Barrere (1831-1913), a Civil War veteran, bought a pair of Highland County newspapers and merged them to form the Hillsboro News-Herald.
  • Steve Roush 13 September 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 8
    Ladies and gentlemen, in our recent discourse, we’ve examined the life and times of the Barrere boys in the newspaper business. In the 1880s, Col. George Washington Barrere (1831-1913), a Civil War veteran, bought a pair of Highland County newspapers and merged them to form the Hillsboro News-Herald.
  • Steve Roush 8 August 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 5
    Ladies and gentlemen, to me at least, there’s something nostalgic, almost romantic, about a family running a business for seven decades – but that’s exactly what the Barrere family in Hillsboro did beginning more than a century ago.
  • Steve Roush 25 July 2018
    Check out the Highland House Museum library
    Ladies and gentlemen, let’s pause belatedly for an important public service announcement. Do you know the Highland House Museum has a library? Don’t feel bad. I didn’t know there was one, either, until fairly recently – and I’m vice chairman of the Highland County Historical Society’s Board of Trustees.
  • Steve Roush 25 July 2018
    Check out the Highland House Museum library
    Ladies and gentlemen, let’s pause belatedly for an important public service announcement. Do you know the Highland House Museum has a library? Don’t feel bad. I didn’t know there was one, either, until fairly recently – and I’m vice chairman of the Highland County Historical Society’s Board of Trustees.
  • Steve Roush 19 July 2018
    The Barrere boys in the newspaper business, Part 4
    George Washington Barrere was born Dec. 21, 1831 and grew up in the New Market area. By the way, New Market was the county seat of Highland County before Hillsboro, which was called Hillsborough back in the day.
  • Steve Roush 14 June 2018
    Back to the Barreres
    I had the pleasure of meeting Sally Barrere over the weekend. I’ve known of Sally for years, and we’re relatives. As you may or may not recall, I wrote a series on the Barrere family a while back, and meant to see it all the way through, but got swept away by the Temperance Movement that swept through Hillsboro in the 1870s.
  • Steve Roush 7 June 2018
    Fun, fun, fun in the old T-bird
    I met my “Ole Betsy” in 1992, and it was love at first sight. Dad bought her off of his boss for $1,200, if memory serves, and she had low miles, a 3.8 liter V6 engine and was a sharp burgundy inside and out. This was the first car I had ever driven where when I stepped on the gas, she would “get up and go.” And she came into my life at perhaps the perfect time.
  • Steve Roush 23 May 2018
    The Lincoln School Mothers’ two-year march
    More than six decades ago, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case declared school segregation unconstitutional, but a group of mothers, the Lincoln Mothers, had to take matters into their own hands to fight for school integration in the city of Hillsboro. They decided to march – for two whole years.
  • Steve Roush 23 May 2018
    The Lincoln School Mothers’ two-year march
    More than six decades ago, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case declared school segregation unconstitutional, but a group of mothers, the Lincoln Mothers, had to take matters into their own hands to fight for school integration in the city of Hillsboro. They decided to march – for two whole years.
  • Steve Roush 9 May 2018
    Helen Hoover and the great outdoors
    Helen Drusilla Blackburn Hoover was born and raised in Greenfield, graduated from McClain High School, then blazed a trail through the wilderness. She authored seven books and numerous articles on nature and the wilderness during her 74 years on this earth, and on May 27, she will be enshrined in the Highland County Historical Society Hall of Fame.
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