OHI-YO

Ohi-yo, Great River

“It is not down on any map. True places never are.”

– Herman Melvillle

A single memory leads me back to my hometown to investigate what becomes a big Civil Rights story and multi-voiced document of history

The book as a tool and study guide to stage spoken history and create original multi-media documentary art for classroom or stage

Monologues and physical theatre arranged from outtakes and excerpts from The Hillsboro Story, soundtrack composed by David Ornette Cherry

Coded words in the 1864 diary of my Quaker great-great grandmother are the heartbeat of a story of resistance to slavery and war

A phenomenal 2000 year old earthwork in the Brush Creek watershed of southern Ohio is a multi-media study in energy, form, and storytelling