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• Neil Rector, Thou Shalt, (October, 2024)

• Mark Real, Finishing the Job,  (April 2024)

• Sean Allen, Dystopia Now,  (March 2024)

• Brent Mulgrew, Really?!,  (February 2024)

• Ed Sadar, Tito:  Not Just Vodka,  (January 2024)

• Jack Beeler, A Philanthropist's Journeys,  (December 2023)

• Jim Carpenter, Aria - An Angel in my Ear,  (November 2023)

• Walter Zinn, Battling Cracks in a Deluge:  Food Insecurity in America?,  October 2023)

• Tom Katzenmeyer, Possible Spam,  (April 2023)

• Greg Browning, Connections,  (March 2023)

• Ewout Leeuwenburg, Managing a Perpetual Struggle by Befriending the Enemy,  Slides,  (February 2023)

• Michael Schoedinger,  The Most Important Man in America,  (January 2023)

• Richard Herrmann, For Whom the Bell Tolls?  (December 2022)

• Richard J. Helmreich,  Velocipede:  Who Knew?,  (November 2022)

• John Soderburg, Jacketing Ohio, (October 2022)

• Bruce D. Judd (Guest), A Flaneur's Guide to Secrets of the City of Light,  (May 2022)

• Resume​

• Paris Bibliography

• Paris Visitor Tips and Observations

• Patrick Osmer, A Genius of a Different Kind,  (April 2022)

• Tom Hayden, What Happens to a Dynasty?,  (March, 2022)

• Allen Proctor, The Biggest Toy,  (February 2022)

• John Schuman, The Missing Links, (slides),    (January 2022)

• Phil Schneider, Go West, Young Man,  (December, 2021)

• Tom Rieland, The Path to Pearl - 100 Years in the Making,  (slides),  (November 2021)

• Neil Rector, Western Sun, (October 2021)

• Dr. Andy Thomas (Guest Essayist),  The OSU Experience with COVID 19, (May 2021)

• Gary Ness, That Young Lieutenant, (April 2021)

• Glen Miles, Someone's Knocking on the Door, (March 2021)

• Ryan Burgess, The Chief Fellow, (February 2021)

• Kevin Malhame, Steamships and Coyotes, (January 2021)

• Dick Burnett, Not This, But That, (December 2020)

• Tom Johnson, And That's All She Wrote , (November 2020)

• Bill Klatt, Who Woulda Thunk It?, (October 2020)

• Michael Rosen (Guest Essayist), It's Lighter than You Think, (September 2020)

• ​Rick Richards,  You Bastard!  (February 2020)

• Walter Zinn, Military Dictatorship: A View from Below (January 2020)

• Ron Pizzuti and Tom Katzenmeyer, A Conversation  (December 2019)

• Herb Brown, Did It Really Happen?  (November 2019)

• Tom Katzenmeyer, Do Something  (October 2019)

• Steve Steinberg,  Jolly Old England!  (April, 2019)

• Ernest Perry, The Star Spangled Banner  (March 2019)

• Ty Marsh, Tales of a Bleeding-Heart Liberal -- Tourniquet Applied,  (February 2019)

• Greg Browning,  A Good Story (January 2019)

• David Staley, Reading the Earth  (December 2018)

• Bob Shook, The Business of America is Business (November 2018)

• Arnett Howard, Women (October, 2018)

• Sean Allen,  For Whom the Bell Tolls  (April, 2018)

• Ed Sadar,  Green with Envy  (March 2018)

• Roger Sugarman,  Back to the Future - Part 2  (February 2018)

• Bob Wandel, An Island Nation (January 2018)

• Mark Real, A Living Legacy:  America's National Parks (December 2017)

• Jim Carpenter, Who Slept in His Best Bed? (November 2017)

• Mike Abrams, Get Outta Here (October 2017)

• Sid Druen, peas & queues (May 2017)

• Mike Schoedinger, The Last Guy to Let You Down (April 2017)

• Bill Bennett, Grit, (March 2017)

• Rick Herrmann, Dimes (slides), (February 2017) 

• Todd Tuney, The Final Frontier, (January 2017) 

• John Soderberg, Species of Awe, (December 2016)

• Tom Rieland, Sky of Plenty, (November 2016)

• Artie Isaac, Agnotology & Gender, (October 2016)

• Terry Davis, The Meaning of “Life”, (May 2016)

• Scott Powell, Vérité, (April 2016)

• Warren Tyler, Got Almonds?, (March 2016)

• Ric Petry, The Best Laid Plans, (slides)  (February 2016) 

• Jim Ginter, Just Pick a Number, (January 2016)

• Dick Burnett, Brotherly Love (slides), (December 2015)

• Chad Readler, 923 (slides), (November 2015)

• Rich Simpson, Bibliology 101 (slides), (October 2015)

• Herb Brown, Life With Father, (May 2015) 

• Luke Feck, In the Nick of Timeless, (April 2015)

• Allen Proctor, 1640, (March 2015)

• Bob Loversidge, A Slow Comfortable Screw, (February 2015)

• Gary Ness, But For Ohio...?, (January 2015)

• Ted Thomas, The Queen of Hearts, (December 2014)

• Tom Katzenmeyer, When Harry Met Sally, Or Not?, (November 2014)

• Arnett Howard,  The Way It Used to Be,  (October, 2014)

• Denny Griffith, Song of the Goose,  (May 2014)

• Bill Klatt, I Like The Sound of That, (April 2014) 

• Dan Heinlen, Ready, Set, STOP!, (March 2014)

• Walter Zinn, A Loop in the Sea, (February 2014)

• Brent Mulgrew, The One, (January 2014)

• Greg Browning, A New Adventure (exhibits), (December 2013)

• Brent DeVore, 12.24, (November 2013)

• David Staley, Iterations, (October 2013)

• Ron Rosbottom, Moving Boney's Parts (plus slides), (May 2013)

• Jim Carpenter, American Idylls or Idols? (plus poem), (April 2013)

• Rick Richards, Out Of This World, (March 2013)

• Ty Marsh, Is The Prescription Worth The Medicine?, (February 2013)

• Denny Griffith, Celo, Happiness, and Intentional Community, (January 2013)

• George Meiling, Vignettes, (December 2012)

• Bob Wandel, Three To Remember, (November 2012)

• Mark Real, Club 45: No Easy Decisions, (October 2012)

• Ron Pizzuti, A Private Tour of the Collection (May 2012)

• Ric Petry, Links, (April 2012) (The essay has not yet been posted. Here's the flowchart.)

• Arnett Howard, Operation Happiness, (March 2012)

• Pat Osmer, The Road To Tucapel, (February 2012)

• Roger Sugarman, Back to the Future, (January 2012)

• Tom Rieland, Crimson Roses, (December 2011)

• Ed Sadar, Interpreting My Kit Kit Portrait, (November 2011)

• Bob Shook, Brand New, (October 2011)

• George Paulson, Time And Change Will Surely Show: A Century of Kit Kat, (Annual Meeting, May 2011)

• Al Kuhn, The Kit Kat Essay (Centennial Reunion), (April 2011)

• Mike Young, The Italian Navigator (1911-1928), (March 2011)

• Artie Isaac, What Now? (1929-1938), (February 2011)

• Dick Burnett, A Pillow Case (1939-1949) , (January 2011)

• Rick Herrmann, Becoming US (1950-1963), (December 2010)

• Don Shackelford, The Heffalump Trap (1964-1975), (November 2010)

• Jim Ginter, 35 Years of Accelerating Depletion -- OR -- Whose Fish Are They Anyway? (1976-2010), (October 2010)

• Terry Davis, annual meeting guest essayist, Fourth Quarter, (May 2010)

• Scott Powell, High Hopes, (April 2010)

• Chris DeRose, Keeping Up In A World All A Twitter, (March 2010)

• Rich Simpson, EFI, (February 2010)

• Bill Milligan, Was the American Revolution a Mistake? (January 2010)

• Sean Allen, Degenerative Retinal Disorder In Mures Musculi: An Update, (December 2009)

• Warren Tyler, The Samurai Had No Choice, (November 2009)

• Herb Brown, All In, (October 2009)

• Jack Chester, Seapower, (April 2009)

• Sid Druen, Tess, We Hardy Knew You, (March 2009)

• Tad Jeffrey, Manufacturing Matters: A Second Look, (February 2009)

• Bob Loversidge, Give An Inch, Take A Mile, (January 2009)

• Jim Carpenter, Amerigo's Niece, (December 2008) 

• Gary Ness, Old News, (November 2008)

• Allen Proctor, You Had To Be There, (October 2008)

• Arthur Nemitoff, Of Eyes And Hearts, (May 2008)

• Joe Reed, More Than A Gathering Place, (April 2008)

• Jon York, With My Little Eyes: The Outsider Men Who Dreamed and Built Hollywood, (March 2008)

• Rick Richards, When Did I Choose?, (February 2008)

• Ty Marsh, Got Milk?, (January 2008)

• Brent Mulgrew, Round and Round, (December 2007)

• Bill Laidlaw, Were the Chinese Here First?, (November 2007)

• Mark Real, Did I Learn Anything While Visiting 75 Countries?, (October 2007)

• John Mueller (guest essayist), Overblown  (May, 2007)

• Tom Moyer, Give Up The Ship, (April 2007)

• Rich Simpson, Where Have All The Great Men Gone?, March 2007

• Denny Griffith, Giving and Getting, (February 2007)

• Greg Browning, The Future Is Here, (January 2007)

• Phil Schneider, Was Kilroy Here?, (December 2006)

• Bob Wandel,  How Did We Get Here?  (November, 2006)

• Michael Scanlon, A Penny for Your Thoughts  (October, 2006)

• Steven A. Hawley, (Guest Essayist), 2 Aborts, 5 Flights, 28 Years, 1000 Stories (May, 2006)

• Warren Tyler, Homeland Security (April, 2006)

• Dan Heinlen,  BANG!  (March 2006)

• Tom Lurie,  The Mendoza Discovery  (February, 2006)

• Brent DeVore, How Do You Spell Diversity?  (January, 2006)

• George Meiling,  The Price of Loyalty  (December 2005)

• Richard Burnett,  No Place Like Here  (November, 2005)

• Herb Brown,  Richard Nixon's Greatest Game  (October, 2005)

• Susan Peterson (Guest Essayist), The 21st Century Media Revolution:  Confessions from a Recovering Reporter  (May, 2005)

• Dick Emens, Innate, Manufactured, or Serendipitous  (April, 2005)

• Ralph Lach,  Arghh!  He Just Wants to Be Different  (March, 2005)

• Jim Ginter,  The Lost Key  (February, 2005)

• Gary Ness,  de Tocqueville Revisited  (January 2005)

• John Easton,  Stay Tuned  (December 2004)

• Bill Milligan,  A Free Lunch  (November 2004)

• Fred Milford,  Gee Whiz  (October, 2004)

• David Deming (Guest Essayist),  The Balancing Act of an Artist/Survivor in Contemporary Times or "How Long Can I Keep All These Balls in the Air Simultaneously?"  (May 2004)

• Ed Clay, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing  (April 2004)

• Rowland Brown,  Why Greenspan Worries about Deflation and Inflation  (March 2004)

• Richard Petry,  How Did Everything Get So Complicated?  (February 2004)

• Chip Elliott,  The Other George Washington  (January, 2004)

• Artie Isaac,  Word of Mouth  (December 2003)

• Mike Young,  Shoot the River, Save the Land (November 2003)

• Pat Osmer,  Seeing Back to the Beginning  (October 2003)

• John Gobell (Guest Essayist),  Fiction and the Historic Thriller  (May 2003)

• Mike Curtin,  As It Is Written  (April 2003)

• Don Shackelford,  As Thy Purse Shall Bear  (March 2003)

• Bob Wandel,  When Is This This?  (February 2003)

• George Paulson,  Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Done Stole My Lover Away  (January 2003)

• Irv Lippman,  Architecture of the Manger  (December 2002)

• Jim Carpenter,  Colonel Johnson, Meet Allah Akbar  (November 2002)

• Mike Scanlon,  Always a Borrower or a Lender Be  (October 2002)

• Max De Pree, Guest Essayist),  (May 2002)

• Al Kuhn,  On Reading (April 2002)

• Allen Proctor,  The Road Not Taken  (March 2002)

• David Van Dyke,  Our Peculiar Institution  (February 2002)

• Tad Jeffrey,  Washington Gladden, Prophet of the Social Gospel  (January, 2002)

• Greg Browning,  Past Becomes Present  (December 2001)

• Warren Tyler,  To Protect and Serve  (November 2001)

• Fred Milford,  Confluence  (October 2001)

• Denny Griffith,  Looking Forward/Looking Backward  (April 2001)

• Richard Burnett,  Lightin' Out for the Territories (1893...and Regions Beyond)  (March 2001)

• John Chester,  An Old Subject Revisited  (February 2001)

• George Paulson,  Alas! Poor Yorick.  I knew him, Horatio...To what base uses we may return, Horatio!  (January 2001)

• Mark Feinknopf,  To Be or Not to Be  (December 2000)

• Brent DeVore,  And Then There Was One  (November 2000)

• Phil Schneider,  Much Ado About Nothing  (October 2000)

• Jerry Hultin (Guest Essayist),  (May 2000)

• Jon York,  X + Y = Z  (April 2000)

• Paul Otte,  The Journey Never Ends  (March 2000)

• Dan Heinlen,  Clubbing with Restraint  (February 2000)

• George Meiling,  Gary's Garden and Beyond (January 2000)