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Cookie Table, The
9781467153065
Regular price $23.99 Sale price $17.99 Save 25%All you need is love and cookies.
Everyone loves cookies, but the people of the Steel Valley take this love to another level. Nowhere else in America will you behold hundreds—or even thousands—of cookies piled high for events of all kinds. This is the regionally famous cookie table. But how did this tradition start? Why do residents of the Pittsburgh and Youngstown areas always create them not just for weddings but for birthdays, graduations, fundraisers, community events, and so much more? How did this once quaint local custom become a social media phenomenon? How are the cookies made, and how is a cookie table organized?
Join author and cookie table enthusiast Alice Crosetto on a delectable journey through this beloved Steel Valley tradition.
Hollywood in Ohio
9781467159364
Regular price $24.99 Sale price $18.74 Save 25%Too few know of the screen legends from Ohio and the outsized impact the state had in establishing Hollywood as the filmmaking capital of the world.
Hollywood and Ohio are much closer than one might assume. Indeed, it could be argued that Hollywood is Ohio’s offspring. The original settlement was founded as a Christian community by a young lady from Ohio. That community was pushed aside when the fledgling New York City movie industry relocated to California to find refuge from Ohio’s own Thomas Edison and his monopoly on motion picture production. Native Ohioans such as Lillian Gish, Theda Bara, and Clark Gable also stepped into the early Hollywood spotlight. And the movie industry truly became that—an industry—when the Warner brothers from Youngstown introduced sound to films, making movies a significant form of entertainment worldwide.
Author Conrade C. Hinds unspools the deep and little-known connection between Hollywood and the Buckeye State.
