Cincinnati – Lynn Doxon

The History of Cincinnati

ByLynnDoxon51 June 18, 2021June 18, 2021

We all spent the morning in the Cincinnati History Museum. The current main exhibit is transportation in Cincinnati, with a fantastic scale model of the streetcars in the city of the 1940s. In my soon-to-be-released book Ninety Day Wonder, Gene Sinclair passes through Cincinnati, is delayed, and watches a baseball game at the stadium close…

Research trip, St. Clair

On the Trail of St. Clair

ByLynnDoxon51 June 16, 2021June 17, 2021

Today we are ensconced on the twentieth floor of the Cincinnati Hilton in a room overlooking the Ohio River. Tomorrow the research begins in earnest at the Cincinnati Museum Center Archives. Arthur St. Clair named Cincinnati after Cincinnatus, a Roman soldier who put down his sword and turned to farming, and after the Society of…