Visit CETconnect
Arts & Culture
Current Affairs
Lifelong Learning
Kids & Families
Around Our Communities
The Little Miami: River of Promise

Program Length: 11 minutes

The Little Miami River offers many opportunites to appreciate the beauty of nature as well as to enjoy activites such a paddling and fishing. Along the banks, Warren County Parks provide public spaces for such activites as biking and picnicking. The Little Miami is celebrating its 40th annivesary as Ohio's first National and State Scenic River. Video provided courtesy Warren County Parks and Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
International Year of Astronomy
Dean Regas, Outreach Astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory, talks with 91.7WVXU's Ann Thompson about the International Year of Astronomy. Celebrating the 400 years since Galileo first looked through a telescope, 135 countries will be promoting astronomy in 2009 with thousands of events. Cincinnati Observatory Center will be participating in an international webcast, holding classes on how to use a telescope, and hosting some sidewalk astronomy experiences as well as making free telescopes available for schools. For more information on the Cincinnati Observatory and their 40 Galileos program, visit the Cincinnati Observatory's website.
History Detectives: Cemetery Alarm
Wes Cowan, star of PBS' History Detectives, and Scott Gampfer, Director of History Collections & Preservation Coordinator for the Cincinnati Museum Center, discuss a recent episode featuring a cemetery alarm with 91.7WVXU News Director Maryanne Zeleznick. Cincinnati was a hotbed of illegal exhumation in the late 19th century and the John Scott Harrison case which brought about legislation ending grave robbing originated here. Photographs provided courtesy of Cincinnati Museum Center.
Lloyd Library: Catesby
Betsy Kruthoffer, curator the Catesby exhibit at the Lloyd Library, tells about the work of little known nature artist Mark Catesby. Catesby explored the wilderness of southeastern North America in the 1700s and created beautiful paintings which were complied into two books when he returned home to England.

The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. US Bank Foundation
Do you have an idea for a feature for CETconnect's History & Science area? Let us know!

Email Krystal Cleaver, Content Manager for History & Science on CETconnect.
LPK - Building Leadership Brands