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Lecture May 3: Walking Ancient Ohio with Buck Niehoff and Hope Taft

  • The Denison Room at the Granville Inn 314 East Broadway Granville, OH, 43023 United States (map)

Buck Niehoff and Hope Taft at the start of the Grandma Catewood Memorial Hiking Trail in the Hocking Hills.

Please join us (in person or online) for an evening talk with Buck Niehoff, retired lawyer, author, and Denison Alum, and Hope Taft, former Ohio First Lady. Mr. Niehoff and Mrs Taft, along with several friends, walked 160 miles to eight ceremonial Hopewell Earthworks and explored the architectural achievements at each site. 

The walkers followed in the footsteps of the ancient people who, like them, made pilgrimages between these venerated sites. They discovered that the spaces between the earthworks’ locations—where both ancient and modern pilgrims walked—may have been as important to the sacred experience as the earthworks themselves.

When: May 3, 7pm
Where: Denison Hall at the Granville Inn OR online via livestream
This event is free and open to the public