Minford High School is located in Southern Ohio’s Scioto County. This is Ohio’s southernmost county in the state situated notably in the greatly wooded area often said to be the foothills of the Appalachian mountains! Camp Vienna, A local unit of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil…

The church bulletin said, “Let your light shine bright before others that they may see your good works and glorify.” It also quoted the verse: Your Father in Heaven (Matthew 5). It was March 8 and we by chance visited the Central Church of Christ at 1211 Grandview Avenue, Portsmouth…

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church The theme for our weekend began on a Saturday night as we attended the Notre Dame Bid Your Heart Out in support of Christian Education. Actually Beverly and I have done this for several years. As we also support public education we support Christian…

Driving beside the old canal path along Rt. 104 from Lucasville we knew we would be passing several churches we had not visited but didn’t know their start times. We had missed our planned 10:30 a.m. target church. At this point Beverly and I weren’t sure we would find a…

Until recently a tree stood just outside a local rural church where residents coming by horse and wagon would tie them securely during their service. Even the new church is a seasoned but beautiful structure inside and out. Across the road is the old church but it looks equally cared…

Seventh Street Baptist Church Ephraim Squier along with Edwin Davis explored, mapped and excavated many Southern Ohio Native American mounds. A map by H. G. Squier can be found showing the Portsmouth Mound Works. This was drawn by him in 1867. It shows an embankment wall that ran from two…

As we approached church this morning Beverly discussed a conversation she had with her father Leonard B. Thompson in his kitchen shortly before he passed away in 1992. In a religious discussion at the time he said, “believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.” …

A few weeks after we attended a local church we found ourselves in a period of rain! Well actually we picked up a lot of rain. First came a surprise snow followed by lots of rain. What made me think about this was Pastor Shannon Bowling’s comment concerning the spirit…

In 1875 Indian wars in the West were still being settled. It was in that year the Kiowa Indians under Chief Lone Wolf surrendered to soldiers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This was the same post where Beverly’s Grandfather John W. Thompson, a U.S. …