<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1028" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter" />
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" />
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" />
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" />
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="soa-new-logo-200px" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:150pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:251659264;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text'>
<v:imagedata src="cid:image001.jpg@01D8ED44.3DFDC570" o:title="soa-new-logo-200px" />
<w:wrap type="square"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="200" height="74" style="width:2.0833in;height:.7708in" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D8ED44.3DFDC570" align="left" hspace="12" alt="soa-new-logo-200px" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Archives
Month and Spooky Season </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">By A&O Committee member Natalie Fritz, Clark County Historical Society</span></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">This month during American <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/archives_month/">
<span style="color:black">Archives Month</span></a>, the Society of Ohio Archivists
<a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/committees/advocacy/"><span style="color:black">Advocacy and Outreach Committee</span></a> decided to spend most of the month sharing
<a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/category/archives-month/spotlights/"><span style="color:black">three blog posts</span></a> that highlight medical collections found in Ohio Archives. This theme was in keeping with the
<a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-2022-poster-reveal-9-8-22/"><span style="color:black">2022 Ohio poster</span></a> theme for Archives Month:
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ohio Healthcare: The True Heart of it All</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color:black">Our final blog post for Archives Month</span></b><span style="color:black"> is more in keeping with the spooky October season, focusing on spooky and scary things found in the archives. The committee invited other Ohio archives
to share stories and items from their collections online using <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ScaryOHArchives%5C&src=typed_query&f=live" target="_blank">
<span style="color:black">#ScaryOHArchives</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Today, while I may be highlighting some things that I personally find spooky or scary from the collections of the
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Clark County Historical Society at the
<a href="https://heritage.center/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Heritage Center</span></a> in Springfield, Ohio</span></strong>, I also wanted to point out the subjective nature of what one may find to be scary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Several years ago our collections staff here in Springfield decided to put together an exhibit based around scary stuff. We quickly found that each of us had different ideas about what specifically we found creepy in our collections.
We decided to lean into the subjective nature of creepiness and allowed members of the staff to determine their objects of choice and write their own text to explain the scary factor, eventually coming up with thirteen objects or themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Color photo of a photographic portrait of Congressman Samuel Shellabarger" href="https://ohioarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/am2022-spooky-clarkchs-young-shellabarger-1024.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:174.75pt;height:225pt;z-index:251658240;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' o:button="t">
<v:imagedata src="cid:image002.jpg@01D8ED44.3DFDC570" o:title="Color photo of a photographic portrait of Congressman Samuel Shellabarger" />
<w:wrap type="square"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/am2022-spooky-clarkchs-young-shellabarger-1024.jpg"><img border="0" width="233" height="300" style="width:2.427in;height:3.125in" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D8ED44.3DFDC570" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Color photo of a photographic portrait of Congressman Samuel Shellabarger" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3"></a><![endif]><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">My number one choice? <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Creepy eyes</span></strong>. Maybe it stems from my four-year-old self’s fear of the Wicked Queen/Old Hag from
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Snow White On Ice</span></em>. Could have been that ill-advised screening of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Children of the Corn</span></em> during a middle school sleepover. Whatever the reason, I’ve never been a fan of big spooky eyes. You may be familiar with the “following-eye” portraits seen in haunted houses
and scary movies. They make you feel as if someone is always watching you, not in a reassuring way, but more in a “make-you-hair-stand-on-end” kind of way.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">Read more on the blog at <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-spooky-2022/">
<span style="color:black">https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-spooky-2022/</span></a></span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Congressman Samuel Shellabarger. Maybe a great guy…perfect for a haunted house wandering eye portrait. Clark County Historical Society.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Questions or stories to share? Contact the
<a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/committees/advocacy/"><span style="color:black">Advocacy and Outreach Committee</span></a>.</span></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Janet Carleton</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> &
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:erlockh@uakron.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Emily Gainer</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Cochairs, </span>
<span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fohioarchivists.org%2Fmarketing%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ccarleton%40ohio.edu%7Caca4965f3a9746d78c4608d92b9d854e%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C637588777813862851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OWOMzQ2tUFXnFniSLWKQeOzngfUfbcCC7fKEzES1IkU%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Marketing
and Communications Committee</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">,
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fohioarchivists.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ccarleton%40ohio.edu%7Caca4965f3a9746d78c4608d92b9d854e%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C637588777813872849%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uIWQv7LC8Q5s8Yl2EO4nQbq1bumnBT8SIqQTDjy6ewE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Society
of Ohio Archivists</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Connect with</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ohioarchivists"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/society-of-ohio-archivists"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">LinkedIn</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fohioarchivists.org%2Flistserv%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ccarleton%40ohio.edu%7Caca4965f3a9746d78c4608d92b9d854e%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C637588777813882842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uSzpLW8Zn0v8a1P%2BR1v1sMGJoCcrCsuIbT%2FdfrL9U6k%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Listserv</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
| </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/ohioarchivists/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Pinterest</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://twitter.com/ohioarchivists"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Twitter</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4XEQwaiQ2yINYjGIM5B-Yw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">YouTube</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="200" height="74" style="width:2.0833in;height:.7708in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D8ED44.3DFDC570" alt="soa-new-logo-200px"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">______________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Janet Carleton | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation and Digital Initiatives | OHIO University Libraries | Alden
333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 | </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">carleton@ohio.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> |
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://media.library.ohio.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">http://media.library.ohio.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | she/her/hers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>