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We must end golf at the Newark Octagon Mound for Native Americans
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…
In Memoriam: Charlie Einhorn
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,…
Book Review: Tigerland: 1968 - 1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood
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…
How Music Helps Veterans Cope With PTSD
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.…