We are on the Air!
In a collaboration with WGTE Public Media, we are producing a weekly radio program on Toledo area history. It will premier October 14 at 7:00 p.m. on FM 91. Timewalk through Northwest Ohio, hosted by veteran broadcaster and Toledo History Museum president London Mitchell, will reflect 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 will also be distributed by WGTE as a podcast dropping every Wednesday at WGTE.org/Timewalk.
Guests on the first episode include award-winning journalist and local history enthusiast Lou Hebert, the Executive Director of the Toledo Police Museum Shirley Green, and FLOC founder Baldemar Velazquez. There is some deep diving here and insights you may have never heard before. Toledo history buffs will love this program.
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.