We are on the Air!
In a collaboration with WGTE Public Media, we are producing a weekly radio program on Toledo area history. Th program airs Wednesday eventings at 7:00 p.m. on FM 91. Timewalk through Northwest Ohio, hosted by veteran broadcaster and Toledo History Museum president London Mitchell, reflects on events and activities that have not only shaped our culture and heritage but also have had a major impact on the lifestyle of America. The program is also distributed by WGTE as a podcast dropping every Wednesday at WGTE.org/Timewalk.
Speakers Program Continues on November 10
The Toledo History Museum speakers program continues with a look at pre-prohibition Toledo by author Doug Tracy. He’ll discuss his book Times, Crimes and the Tenderloin, a collection of true accounts that paint a vivid picture of the Tenderloin era in Toledo during the two decades before the passage of the 18th and 19th Amendments. Please accept this invitation to join us on November 10, 6:30 p.m., at the Sanger Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 3030 W. Central Ave., Toledo, Ohio 43606. Admission is free. For more information click here.
Did you know the first successful test of dispatching police vehicles by radio happened in Toledo in 1921? 
Aviator Paul Rinaldo Redfern was trying to make history as the first pilot ever to fly nonstop from North America to South America. 
Written by Lou Hebert, the true life story behind one of the biggest Post Office robberies in history. And, it happened in Toledo. 
His life offers an insight into the lives and experiences of Blacks in Toledo at the turn of the century. 
London Mitchell's podcast interview with Barbara Floyd on her in-depth book on the history of the University of Toledo. 
Here is the story of a man they called Toledo's "radio wizard" written by Lou Hebert.