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Summer Moon Festival features two movies highlighting Ohio's space exploration heritage
WAPAKONETA, OH (WLIO) - Wapakoneta's annual Summer Moon Festival brought the stories of Ohio astronauts to the silver screen. The Wapa Theatre held a special double feature for festivalgoers on Friday night. Before the showing, there was a special VIP meet and greet with people from behind the scenes of each movie.
Completing the mission: Documentary bookends local painter's place in Ohio's outer space history
When Bill Hinsch set out to paint a 9-by-12 foot painting of Ohio’s most famous astronauts commissioned for the statehouse rotunda in 2023, he wasn’t sure if he could complete the job. He was 69 years old. He had just had two hip replacements. The painting would require him to stand on a scaffold for hours a day, working at a scale much larger than he had worked before. Yet one year, and some 1,000 hours of work later, Bill Hinsch, a Perrysburg resident, finished Ohioans in Space. The painting now hangs in the statehouse, in homage to Ohio’s remarkable astronaut legacy. Now, Bill Hinsch’s son, Alex Hinsch, has directed a documentary about his father’s painting. The documentary, titled Cradle of Astronauts, will highlight Bill Hinsch’s work on the painting and also tell the story of Ohio’s role in the history of NASA – bringing focus to the state’s “small-town heroes” who left their mark on U.S. space history.
Laber of Love offering pet memorial plaques
Laber of Love Pet Rescue is offering memorial signs for pets ahead of National Pet Memorial Day, which falls on Sept. 8. Custom signs will be displayed in the Pet Memorial Garden on the greenspace of Gay Smith/Associates in downtown Sidney for an entire week staring the morning of Saturday, Sept. 7.
Photography class helps kids develop a marketable skill
Student participants in the Snapshots Photography Class utilize their newly-learned skills. (Susie Jarvis Photo) Susie Jarvis has long held a passion for photography, which, eventually, led her to open The Photo Booth in downtown Bellefontaine. And, she’ll be quick to tell you, it’s an art and a skill that goes beyond point-and-shoot.
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