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Life and Times of E arly Columbus

Life and Times of E arly Columbus. Thurber’s World. The New Capital. 1812: City created to be the state capital 1834: Population was 3,500 , officially a city 1910 : Population was 181,511 2000: Population was 787,033

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Life and Times of E arly Columbus

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  1. Life and Times of Early Columbus Thurber’s World

  2. The New Capital 1812: City created to be the state capital 1834: Population was 3,500, officially a city 1910: Population was 181,511 2000: Population was 787,033 Because of its invented and insecure status as the capital, Thurber says that “Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen and in which almost everything has.”

  3. Columbus circa 1914

  4. Flood of 1913

  5. Change • Post Civil War: previously a base camp, Cbus lost a large military presence • “Blue Jackets” named after this large presence • Industrial revolution • “Steelton” in South Columbus: industrial area where many immigrants lived, just South of German Village • Buggy factory capital (Firestone) • Land grant college • 1870 OSU (Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College) • In response to industrial rev; focus on engineering, agriculture, and science with compulsory ROTC

  6. James Thurber's Humorous HeartBy JONATHAN YARDLEY But "My Life and Hard Times" is more than a collection of laughs. It is also a book about the ties of family, about the connections between people and places…about the ways in which dogs insinuate themselves into families…Though Thurber does not dwell on it, the mood of the book is thoroughly Midwestern, i.e., bedrock American. Thurber never got over his love of Ohio and the Midwest, the points of his compass that directed his entire life. He's as genuinely American a writer as any we have, and a true national treasure.” Washington Post Saturday, May 12, 2007

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