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For Press Freedom at the Grass Roots |
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The Main Street Free Press Museum |
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Current Programs and events |
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(Except the Museum will close from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thurs. Sept. 6 for its program “Politics and the Hometown Press” a few steps away at First Baptist Church.) ▪▪▪
The Central Ohio Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and The Main Street Free Press Museum invite you to… “Politics and the hometown press”7:15 p.m. Thursday Sept. 6, 2012 Fredericktown First Baptist Church One block east of Public Square at Sandusky and Pleasant streets A special feature of the one-hour program will be a showing of one of the most unusual newspapers ever published—the “Calico Edition” of the Fredericktown Free Press—by Mansfield historian and author Bob Carter. The Oct. 18, 1879, edition was printed on calico instead of paper to celebrate the election as Ohio governor of Charles “Calico Charley” Foster. Mr. Carter’s copy of the edition was handed down in his family.
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The Main Street Free Press Museum |
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Phone: 917-693-7664 |
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The Main Street Free Press Museum |
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The Museum will be open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 5, Thursday Sept. 6, and Friday Sept. 7, and from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday Sept. 8, 2012. |
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Main Street at Second Street, Fredericktown, Ohio |
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Bob Carter |