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Historical society plans annual banquet

Sept. 15 event to feature area native discussing steel industry of the Ohio Valley

STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson County Historical Association will hold its annual meeting and banquet on Sept. 15 at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres preceding a sit-down dinner served at 6:15 p.m.

The menu includes salad and a choice of either stuffed chicken breast with rice and mixed vegetables or roast beef with mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. Dessert will be served with tea and coffee. Cost is $30 per person. Reservations should be returned with menu choice by Thursday to JCHA, P.O. Box 4268, Steubenville, OH 43952.

The meeting is held annually to review the past year’s accomplishments and to announce goals for the next year.

It also is occasion to welcome a guest speaker, in this case area native Lou Martin, associate professor of history at Chatham University and chair of the department of history, political science and international studies.

The steel industry of the Ohio Valley will be the topic for the guest lecturer of 19th century industrialization who resides in Pittsburgh with his wife.

Martin graduated from Oak Glen High School and earned his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from West Virginia University. He has published articles in “Pennsylvania History” and “LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.” His book, “Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia,” is published by the University of Illinois Press as part of its Working Class in American History series.

Promotional material regarding the speaker notes:

“Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of the steel and pottery factories in the Ohio River Valley created a rural and small-town working class and what that meant for communities and for labor. The result is an illuminating consideration of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles and the erroneous but persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures.”

Officers of the historical association are: Judy Brancazio, president; Eleanor Naylor, first vice president; Charles Green, second vice president; Mike Giles, secretary; and Susan Probert, treasurer. Directors are Joan Anliker, Barry Bardone, Dr. Howard Brettell, Martha Freese, Mal Lilly, Robert Martin, Betty Masters, Robert Phillipson, Lois Rekowski, Dominic Teramana, Thomas Way and Linda Wells.

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