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The Ohio Country

A few special announcements about WYSO's 'The Ohio Country' podcast!

By Chris Welter,
Neenah Ellis
Published February 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM EST
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Hi everyone!

Chris Welter and Neenah Ellis here. We co-produced this podcast, The Ohio Country.

We have a couple of exciting announcements:

1. Next week, on Saturday, March 1, we will release a bonus episode of The Ohio Country on all podcasting platforms. We don't want to ruin the surprise, but it will be a fairly high-profile guest.

2. Chris, Dr. John Bickers, and Talon Silverhorn will speak on a panel about The Ohio Country at Denison University this Thursday, Feb. 27. The event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Denison Museum (240 W Broadway #101, Granville, OH 43023). It is open to the public and free to attend. If you can attend, please introduce yourself to Chris, John, and Talon.

The panel is part of Denison Museum’s spring 2025 exhibition, Echoes of Ohio’s Indigenous Legacy: Bridging Past and Present.

More information here: Indigenous pasts, present, and futures: The enduring story of Native Ohio

John is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and was our cultural and historical advisor for this podcast. He's also a professor at Case Western University. Talon is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the cultural programs manager for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. He was a guest in several episodes of The Ohio Country and has been instrumental in developing Ohio's 76th State Park, Great Council State Park, which was built in collaboration with the three federally recognized Shawnee Tribes.

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Best,

Chris & Neenah

This in-depth podcast from WYSO Public Radio is the result of more than a year of reporting, made possible with support from Ohio Humanities.

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Chris Welter
Chris Welter is the Managing Editor at The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO. Chris got his start in radio in 2017 when he completed a six-month training at the Center for Community Voices. Most recently, he worked as a substitute host and the Environment Reporter at WYSO.
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Neenah Ellis
Neenah Ellis has been a radio producer most of her life. She began her career at a small commercial station in northern Indiana and later worked as a producer for National Public Radio in Washington, DC. She came to WYSO in 2009 and served as General Manager until she became the Executive Director of The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices where she works with her colleagues to train and support local producers and has a chance to be a radio producer again. She is also the author of a New York Times best-seller called “If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians.”
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