David Meyers: 12 books

Book cover of Carrying Coal to Columbus

Carrying Coal to Columbus

Mining in the Hocking Valley

by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker & Nyla Vollmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017

As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled into Columbus in 1830 and has continued ever since. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded...
Book cover of Look to Lazarus

Look to Lazarus

The Big Store

by David Meyers, Beverly Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

For more than 150 years, F&R Lazarus & Company was the heart of downtown Columbus. Headed by the "first family of American retailing"? with an eye for flair and a devotion to the customer, this uniquely midwestern institution won the hearts and minds of a community. Look to Lazarus draws on the memories...
Book cover of Historic Columbus Crimes

Historic Columbus Crimes

Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More

by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010

A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included.   In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem culled from city history, both the distant and the more recent past. There’s the rock star slain...
Book cover of Inside the Ohio Penitentiary
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking his victims' blood five years before Bram Stoker's...
Book cover of Central Ohio's Historic Prisons
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009

With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first...
Book cover of Kahiki Supper Club

Kahiki Supper Club

A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

Inspired by Florida's famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. Patrons lined up for hours to see the celebrities who dined there--everyone...
Book cover of Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted—some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In...
Book cover of Columbus

Columbus

The Musical Crossroads

by David Meyers, Arnett Howard, James Loeffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008

Columbus has long been known for its musicians. Unlike New York, San Francisco, Kansas City, Nashville, or even Cincinnati, however, it has never had a definable �scene.� Still, some truly remarkable music has been made in this musical crossroads by the many outstanding musicians who have called...
Book cover of Saint Patrick's Day 162 Success Secrets - 162 Most Asked Questions On Saint Patrick's Day - What You Need To Know
by David Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014

New, enriched Saint Patrick's Day. 'Saint Patrick's Day', either the 'Feast of Saint Patrick' (, the Day of the Festival of Patrick), is a social and devout festivity happening yearly on 17 March, the demise date of the most commonly-recognised sponsor Saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick ( AD 385–461)....
Book cover of Wicked Columbus, Ohio
by David Myers, Elise Meyers Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015

Ohio's capital city once teemed with crime bosses, rampant corruption and unpunished perversion. The Bad Lands of Columbus was a nationally recognized slum controlled by "Smoky" Hobbs. Columbus native Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, the world's most successful snake oil salesman, was almost single-handedly...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of Georgia

Georgia

A Brief History

by Christopher C. Meyers, David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, GEORGIA: A BRIEF HISTORY surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly.
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