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Kalen Howell stands in Barbara Howell Park on Market Street in Urbana. He's working to restore the park to honor his grandmother's legacy.

One man’s mission to preserve his grandmother’s legacy – and the park she left behind

Kalen Howell wants to revitalize the small city of Urbana’s historically Black neighborhood and preserve the history hidden there.

Artist and Assistant Professor of Design and Black Visual Cultures at Oberlin College Michael Boyd Roman setting up his installation “No Return for Negus." The installation interprets a feeling of grief associated with the loss of connection to ancestry for Black Americans through transatlantic slave trade, and the desire for reconnection. Roman's installation is one of seven at The Nature of Healing Exhibit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden through a collaboration with Deep Roots Experience.

Nature as a spiritual salve for grief? Cleveland Botanical Garden looks at healing power of outdoors

A new exhibit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden uses art to explore the healing power of nature and pathways it can provide to overcome grief and trauma.

The Octagon Earthworks in Newark was a golf club for more than 110 years.

Two years after designation, UNESCO site sheds its golf course trappings

Eight ancient earthworks make up Ohio’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site. Until recently, one of them was a golf course.

people look at museum exhibit. a prison uniform is at center

Cincinnati is hosting largest Auschwitz exhibit outside of Europe

"Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." includes more than 500 artifacts and 400 photographs. Among them are shoes, eyeglasses, toys, clothing, and hundreds of other personal objects that belonged to survivors and victims.

Remembering Olympic gold medalist Florence 'Flo-Jo' Griffith Joyner

Olympic gold medalist Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner died in her sleep on Sept. 21, 1998. The sprinter's world records for the 100 meter and 200 meter events remain unbroken.

Designed by Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield in the late 19th century, the

Ghost stories of ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ prison live on in Mansfield

The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, best known as the location of the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," has its own story to tell.

Winging it: how a Northeast Ohio couple made birds their bandmates

Avimancy is a new project being led by a birding couple who are linking their ornithologic fascination to their art, exploring film, music, dance and more.

Historian Katherine Durack shows off a quilt she made inspired by a missing stained glass window once housed in the Mercantile Library. The window picturing a woman reading was commissioned by noted Ohio suffragist Augustine "Gussie" Ogden in 1904. It was partially a tribute to her late husband — but also a nod to the Mercantile's connections to the women's rights movement. The whereabouts of the window and another arts-themed one are currently unknown.

The Mercantile Library is trying to solve the mystery of its missing stained glass windows

Cincinnati's Mercantile Library is trying to solve a mystery involving stained glass, women's suffrage and a church in small-town Indiana.

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at in Dallas on Thursday.

5 Questions About Early Voting, Answered

Early voting makes casting a ballot easier for some people, but it might not boost turnout overall.

Six artists who have dyslexia find their words in art.

Finding Words in Paint: How Artists See Dyslexia

It's the most common learning disability, yet it's hard to understand. We asked six artists who have dyslexia to share their experiences in images.

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