• Steve Roush 6 April 2016

    Ghost Stories: Meanwhile, down the road in New Vienna

    Within a fortnight after the Temperance Crusade was inaugurated in Hillsboro, three or four of the leading counties in Southern Ohio were taken by storm. It was written that as fast as the news could be carried to neighboring towns, they caught the spirit and began the crusade of prayer and song. At one point, the “eyes of the whole country” began to be turned on New Vienna.
  • Steve Roush 23 March 2016
    Ghost Stories: Mrs. Foraker, Temperance leader
    Among the leaders developed during the early days of the crusade was Mrs. Henry Foraker, one of whose sons, Joseph B. Foraker, afterward was governor of and senator from Ohio. Mrs. Foraker was a serious, almost solemn-looking woman and as quiet and home-loving a woman as ever knitted away a long winter evening by the fireside.
  • Steve Roush 25 February 2016
    Ghost Stories: The Temperance Crusade and remembering Mother Thompson
    Ladies and gentlemen, as we return yet again to the year of our Lord 1919 and continue our chat with Highland County native son Hugh Fullerton, I turn the focus of our conversation to arguably the most famous name of the Temperance Crusade, the name that greets us at the city limits as you and I drive into Hillsboro today.
  • Steve Roush 18 February 2016
    Ghost Stories: The Temperance Crusade and a chat with a local legend continues
    Ladies and gentlemen, as we spend some quality time in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nineteen and continue our chat with Highland County native son Hugh Fullerton, I ask the legendary journalist about one of the driving forces behind the Temperance Crusade in Hillsboro.
  • Steve Roush 11 February 2016
    Ghost Stories: The Temperance Crusade and a chat with a local legend continues
    Ladies and gentlemen, as the snow gently falls on a cold, wintry morn, let’s return to the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nineteen and continue our chat with legendary journalist and Highland County native son Hugh Fullerton.
  • Steve Roush 3 February 2016
    Ghost Stories: The Temperance Crusade and a chat with a local legend
    Ladies and gentlemen, before we proceed to the court case involving uptown Hillsboro business owner William Henry Harrison Dunn and the Temperance crusaders, let’s take a step back for a bit of perspective from a Highland County native son who came into this world just months before the legendary crusade.
  • Steve Roush 28 January 2016
    Ghost Stories: The winter of 1873-1874
    Ladies and gentlemen, on Jan. 31, 1874 – exactly 141 years ago this Sunday – uptown Hillsboro business owner William Henry Harrison Dunn had had enough of an army of Temperance Crusaders who had been bombarding his store with hymns and prayer.
  • Steve Roush 13 January 2016
    Ghost Stories: The winter of 1873-74 and the Temperance Crusade
    W.H.H. Dunn was born July 16, 1840 in Erie County, Pa., and would have been a young man of 33 years of age when the Temperance Crusade swept through Highland County and other areas of the state that winter.
  • Steve Roush 5 January 2016
    Ghost Stories: The winter of 1874 and the Temperance Crusade
    It was the winter of 1873-74, and the ladies had waged a war on alcohol in uptown Hillsboro. We talked earlier about how their mission was to “overcome and vanquish the liquor-sellers with love and kindness alone” and had targeted the establishment of William Henry Harrison Dunn, one of the booze sellers in town.
  • Steve Roush 17 December 2015
    Ghost Stories: The battle of Fort Dunn
    Earlier this month, we talked about how an army of women, led by Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson, “solemnly and unshrinkingly pledged themselves to each other, with God’s help, to overcome and vanquish the liquor-sellers with love and kindness alone.”
  • Steve Roush 9 December 2015
    Making memories with my best man
    I firmly believe that good dogs go to Heaven, and that my best man is there right now, running, playing, watching over us and waiting for us.
  • Steve Roush 9 December 2015
    Making memories with my best man
    I firmly believe that good dogs go to Heaven, and that my best man is there right now, running, playing, watching over us and waiting for us.
  • Steve Roush 9 December 2015
    Making memories with my best man
    I firmly believe that good dogs go to Heaven, and that my best man is there right now, running, playing, watching over us and waiting for us.
  • Steve Roush 2 December 2015
    Ghost Stories: The Battle of Fort Dunn
    As the army of Hillsboro ladies gear up for another siege and Brigadier General W.H.H. Dunn prepares a counterattack, let’s pause for now, and we’ll continue next week.
  • Steve Roush 18 November 2015
    Ghost Stories: Now he belongs to the ages
    George Washington Barrere served as a lieutenant colonel in the Civil War, and on April 19, 1865, his family and residents of Highland County picked up their local newspaper and saw the headline, “A Nation in Mourning,” under a photo of an American flag.
  • Steve Roush 5 November 2015
    Ghost Stories: Stand by for news
    George Washington Barrere, one of the pioneer settlers of Highland County, had several close calls in battles in the 1700s and early 1800s. His son, John Mills Barrere, at the age of 62, lost an arm in the Battle of Harpers Ferry.
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