Charles Whittlesey

This early history covers the period up to about 1812 and is drawn from many years’ collection of documents and correspondence. The author’s approach was to let the pioneers speak for themselves wherever possible. He wrote in the preface that, “…I am more ambitious to preserve history than to write it, and have therefore freely transcribed from papers, letters, verbal statements, and casual publications, relating to the early times. The originals are certainly more authentic, and more entertaining, than a reproduction would be, in the language of another.”

This small archeological study contains descriptions and drawings of 18 ancient sites in Ohio. The Table of Contents lists the sites: -Introductory Remarks -Ancient Excavation, Big Bottom, Pike County -Ancient Work near Todd’s Fork, Warren County -Work near Newtown -Mound near Newtown -Work near Columbus -Ancient Works at Cincinnati -Ancient Works in Adams, Washington County -Work near Jacktown, Licking County -Stone Work, Perry County -Fortified Summit, three miles south of Newark, Licking County -Work near Medina Centre, Medina County -Fortified Position, Weymouth -Earth-Work, south-east of Weymouth -Work in North Field, Summit County -Ancient Work in Jackson County -Work between Jackson and Richmond -Work in Ross County -Work near Painesville, Lake County

In 2155 there are two Americas. Half the nation lives comfortably in the technology of the 22nd century; the other half lives trapped on pre-industrial Islands: the remains of America's collapsed cities. The two cultures collide when Galen Fairchild, an Islander, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family in the modern city of Stratis. But Galen's dreams fall apart when a startling event drives him out of Stratis and into the ghostlike ruins of downtown Minneapolis. Inside the crumbling skyscrapers, he discovers a mysterious power linked to his family's past, which not only changes his life forever, but also pits the two cultures against each other in a cataclysmic struggle that alters the course of the nation.