Hi Judy (Dennis too)-------

A real good record is the old LP on Folkways called OHIO STATE BALLADS by Anne Grimes. (FH 5217) I'm sure you can get a tape of it (or maybe a CD) from Smithsonian Folkways these days. Great historical ballads like :

"The Pleasant Ohio" (a pioneer song on the beauty of the place)



"The Battle Of Point Pleasant" (1774-- Lord Dunsmore's War")


"Logan's Lament" (also from Lord Dunsmore's War-1774)


"St. Clair's Defeat At Fort Jefferson" (from Indian wars--Nov. 4, 1791) Bob Gibson did a good version of this.


"The Copperheads" (a song of the possible election of a Copperhead Governot of Ohio--but he was defeated. Prompted Lincoln to say, "Glory to God...Ohio has saved the Union."--1863-----Copperheads were midwesterners with southern sympathies.


"Ohio Guards" (1864---Ohio National Guard were called up to be "One Hundred Day Men" in the Civil War. Especially important in the Wilderness Campaign. Within 16 days 40,000 men were put into Federal service.


also songs of the Ohio-Erie Canal that connected the Ohio River to Lake Erie with it's North-South passages between Cleveland and Portsmouth. The Miami & Erie Canal connected Toledo to Cincinatti. There were offshoots to Atens and Marietts, Ohio. Captain Pearl R. Nye sang many songs of these waterways.

songs like:

Get That Boat
The Old Canal
Last Trip In The Fall
The Clever Skipper
A Canal Dance
The Gospel Boat