Yellow Springs

Jonas Bender is a former Yellow Springs resident who became one of the first Black Marines. He was stationed at Funafuti and the Ellice and Marshall Islands during WWII.

This week's episode of Poor Will's Almanack has notes from Bill Felker's archives of forty years of observation of what happens in nature in the Miami Valley and beyond.

Orlando Brown, a Black real estate developer in Ohio, dealt with backlash from his church and family when he built an apartment complex in his small village in the 60s.

Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later participated in the D-Day invasion in France.

The Brown v Board of Education decision concluded that racial segregation had no place in public school. Leanora Brown taught at Dayton Public Schools when that happened.

The Ohio Department of Development has contributed $1.6 million toward the Ohio village’s water infrastructure updates since 2021. Now, the Ohio EPA is contributing over $176,000 for additional improvements.

Through an initiative called Light Up Navajo, outside visiting utility workers come to install equipment so dozens of homes can be connected to the electric grid for the first time.

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature.

In this week's episode, notes from Bill Felker's 40 years of observing what happens in nature.

A legendary punk band that came out of Yellow Springs.

A Yellow Springs Film Festival Preview with its Founder Eric Mahoney and Oscar-winning Director Steven Bognar. Also, a conversation about the status of art-house-cinemas.

Yellow Springs Hardware in downtown Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been hosting blues concerts, improv comedy and gardening lessons, making it an unexpected gathering place in the village.