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Farmer-tanned golfers smoking cigars and swigging beer are gleefully swatting their ball in and around the Octagon Earthworks, built 2,000 years ago by Native Americans in what is now Newark.
The Octagon is arguably a massive lunar temple considering it tracks the moon’s major cycle of 18.6 years. Some experts believe it is twice as precise as Stonehenge and equally impressive as the Great Pyramid. Nevertheless, the Octagon has been besieged by a private golf course for over 100 years.
The Free Press and others have witnessed golfers tee off on the Octagon’s mounds instead of designated tees. The golfers also drive their carts on the mounds themselves. Such blasphemy would inspire many Native Americans to call on their moon goddess Hanwi to smoke them into oblivion.
However, ending golf at the Octagon could soon be a reality, where it will be open to the public and restored to its prehistoric glory as a ceremonial pilgrimage site built by the Hopewell culture (100 BC to 500 AD).
Columbus’ original beatnik and prime hippie #1 Charlie Einhorn passed into the cosmos in April 2019. So central was Charlie to Columbus’ budding counterculture of the 1960s is that the first headshop took its name from his musical instrument, Charlie’s Guitar. His good friend and co-conspirator Stan Bobrof told the Free Press Charlie’s Guitar was “where it’s at.” Charlie is now drinking coffee and reminiscing with Stan in paradise.
One of the most interesting and unknown aspects of Charlie’s life was his escape from the holocaust and journey to Belgium and eventually the United States. He later relished teaching new immigrants English as a Second Language, because he could relate from his own experiences.
The Freep itself owes a huge debt to Charlie Einhorn and his wife Lynn Stan for the uncountable hours they put in – way into night laying out the paper in the 1990s. Charlie moved the Free Press out of the paste-up stone ages into the desktop publishing era. His creative ideas for the cover were some of the best in Freep history.
Sunday, April 28, 1-3pm
Exhausted by the onslaught of anti-woman legislation coming out of our statehouse? Feeling helpless to fight back? No worries! Come on down to the Sunlight Market this Sunday. Listen to local music, check out some art from local artists, pick up some free emergency contraception, and bring your donations for Women Have Options - Ohio, an organization keeping abortion accessible no matter what laws our state passes.
All tips and half of all art proceeds will go toward WHO/O.
Nineteen-sixty-eight was the like the runaway carousel in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train. The Vietnam War, the assassinations of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and United States Senator (D-MA) Robert F. Kennedy within two months of each other, the chaos at the Democratic convention in Chicago, urban rebellions and their attendant horrors in black enclaves across the United States, the black gloved fists at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the election of former Vice President Richard Nixon to the presidency–these things and more made it an annus horribillis. Yet at the same time, sports magic was happening in Columbus, Ohio.
While modern warfare may consist of a hefty dose of drone strikes and off-site technology, it doesn’t change the fact that post-traumatic stress disorder has been and continues to be a genuine threat to veterans returning from the battlefield.
Many solutions to PTSD involve medical treatment. However, over time an interesting element has crept back into the treatment conversation: the fact that people with PTSD are human beings. PTSD is a profound mental struggle that can’t simply be “turned off” with a pill. It’s a challenge that requires a complicated response, something that music is uniquely equipped to deliver.
Veterans in the U.S.According to the University of Nevada, Reno, there are nearly 20 million veterans in the United States. That’s a significant portion of a population that, as of 2016, consisted of around 330 million people. To put it another way, on average, just over one in every 16 people you meet is a veteran.
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Keynote Speaker: Michael Lighty, Sanders Institute Fellow. Conference fee: $40.00. Workshops and lunch provided. Scholarships available. Location: Quest Business and Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place, Columbus, Ohio. Register at www.spanohio.org.
Fri, April 26-Sun, April 28
Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
A variety of topics including: Medical Issues and Developments, Healthcare and Safety, Partners, Spouses, and Family, Legal Issues and Employment, Youth and Aging Needs, Homelessness, Mental Health, Legislative Updates and more. Tickets: transohio.ticketleap.com/symposium2019. transohio.org.
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Open to all, this meeting is to coordinate our activities, discuss chapter business, and hear committee updates. Location: Northwood High Building, Room 100, 2231 N High St Columbus, OH. For more information, contact columbusdsa@gmail.com.
The resurrected Columbus Destroyers open the season this Saturday night on the road against the Albany Empire (7 pm broadcast on CD102.5), but Destroyers’ head coach Matt Sauk isn’t letting on who will be under center and their starting quarterback could be a game-day decision.
“We’ll name a starter when we line up for the first play of the game,” said Sauk, who himself played quarterback for Utah State and in the Arena Football League (AFL).
The Destroyers have two quarterbacks in camp at the Bo Jackson Dome in Hilliard. Rookie Grant Russell from Newark, Ohio, and 36-year-old AFL veteran Danny Southwick. In the AFL it’s all about the quarterback all the time, where 98 percent of the plays are passing attempts.
On a recent weekday at camp the 6'4″Russell took the majority of snaps with the first-team offense. Barely recruited out of Newark High School, Russell found a home at Division II Ohio Dominican University where he started three seasons and excelled, completing 72.5 percent of his passes in 2017, and was named Great Midwest Athletic Conference player of the year.
Spring is finally here, the time of year when most people go outside and treat their lawn for noxious weeds. This is so commonplace, that many overlook potent medicine right in their own backyard. There is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that summarizes this well, “A weed is a plant, whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”