Places

From the introduction: When Literary Club members were invited to write about "Places," theidea struck a welcome note. They responded with a veritable cornucopiaof prose, poems, a play, and even the start of a novel. Their talentedoutput is on display in this 2026 collection, the fifth in a current seriesof books from a club in its 176th year of celebrating the wonders of thewritten word.In this volume, readers will encounter warm profiles of life in small-town Ohio, disturbing memories of the terrors of war, journeys backto childhood homes from Mexico to Mother Russia, visits to familiarneighborhoods in the Queen City, and much more about "places" -and even in one instance about "no place."Of special note are twin essays constituting something of a tale oftwo cities-one a penetrating look by a native son who has watchedthe rise and fall and rise again of Cleveland, and the other a first-personaccount from the archives documenting how a Literary Club member ledthe civic uprising in the Cincinnati of the 1920's that threw out corruptboss rule.