SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – Historians, history teachers and history buffs hold keys to something precious: stories that can be preserved with care and honored with attention. They know human stories are worth telling and retelling. They have studied cultural events that were breakthroughs and inventions that bridge then and now.
They may have specialized knowledge of art, music, medicine, literature -- both its stellar expression and expansion as well as profound setbacks caused by war, disease, famine. History need not – and maybe cannot – be told in a linear fashion. Rather, it’s recursive.
Points of entry or of curiosity vary -- what interests one person leafing through an album (or in my case, a box of photos) may diverge. And to truly grasp the import, we need to allow the formation of, what a former science teacher of mine called “the chemistry of a thought.” Yes, there is both chemical and electrical activity in the brain.
No wonder we need sleep! That way, we have a way to invent our own tableau of stories. Read on for some upcoming events that might put history front and center. Then: make your own history and attend! A presidential program.
From Bob McKimm, president of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Historical Society: “Please join us at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct.
2 at the S. Euclid Community Center, 1379 Victory Drive, for a brief business meeting followed by Tom Strong presenting a program on our American presidents and how their various illnesses affected .
