Gallery of 2008
A Night at Heritage Hall
A Night at Heritage Hall takes its cue from the movie "A Night at the Museum," where the displays come to life.  The Marion County Historical Society has the displays at their museum, Heritage Hall, come to life.  The displays are people from Marion's past, and the 121st Ohio represented different soldiers from Marion. 
Jared Haudenschield portrayed Revolutionary War Surgeon's Mate Ebenezer Ballantine, who served in the 6th Massachusetts Continental Line from May 1780 to June 1783.  He became Marion's first permenant physician in 1820.  In portraying a harsh winter of 1782, he shows the typically under supplied Continental Army by wrapping his feet in old rags and tying a wrap around his ears.  He inspected the visitors for diseases and described all the modern cures of bleeding and mercury. 
Lew Holland as Private Joel Straube, who served in the 4th and 5th Ohio Volunteer Infantries during the Civil War.  A radical abolitionist, Straube went to Kansas to fight along side John Brown against Missouri Border ruffians.  He then fought through 4 years of Civil War.  Afterward, he became a drunken wife-beatin' hoolligan.  Mark Melroy portrayed Private Shirley Eugene Kane, who served in the 166th Infantry Regiment of the famous Rainbow Division.  Mark wears Kane's actual uniform.  He talked about trench life and mainly of about the fears of gas and how their protective masked worked to counteract the deadly haze.  Save your peach pits, folks!
Joe Young stands in the uniform and equipment of a member of the 502nd Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, which jumped into Normandy, France on the morning of June 6, 1944.  Joe talked about jumping out of airplanes, being lost in France, and taking out German anti-aircraft gunners. 
Mic Szabo is a World War II B-19 bomber ball turret gunner.  With all the equipment he needs, well except a plane and a .50 caliber machine gun, he explained how skeet shooting from the back of a moving duce-and-a-half prepared bomber gunners for the rigorous firing at Luftwaffe planes over Germany in 1943 and 1944. 
Fairbanks Middle School, Milford Center
The 121st fires a volley in a firing demonstration.  From the Marysville Tribune. 
Mic Szabo, Jeff Craig, and Stephen Melroy stand by their station on camp life. 
"Support!  Arms!"  Students of Fairbanks go through the manual of arms with wooden practice muskets. 
"Right Wheel!  March!"
Hardin Historic Farm and Village, Kenton
The students advance in battleline during the infantry drill demonstration.
Our display at Kenton.  Look at the variety!
An arms stack.
What do you have there, Captain?
Memorial Day,
Galion
Our mascot: Fightin' Dick in his cage.  Don't touch; he may bite!
Our musicians: Stephen Melroy on the drum and Mic Szabo on the fife.
Down the road they come.  About half a dozen men came from the Galion area in the original 121st.
The 121st enters Fairview Cemetery in Galion at "Reverse Arms," a position of morning, while the musicians play a funeral march.
For Pictures of At High Tide: Gettysburg, please see the Army of the Ohio web site.
Hale Farm
Priming the gun for fire
Help!  My thumb is stuck!
Prepare to Fire!
Ooops!  It didn't go off.  Well, that's why we have drill.
The James with its One-Night-Stand.  They made a beautiful, but brief, couple.  We were graiously offered the use of another battery's limber for the the event.  Thanks to those "Texas Boys."
Preparing to take out that Rebel gun, who  . . . nicely lent us their limber. 
Colonel Waffler's infantry advances with strong artillery support.
And there goes the infantry. 
The gun crew at Hale Farm.  From left to right: Mark Melroy, Pete Haudenscheild, Joe Young, Mic Szabo, Jared Haudenschield (acting sergeant), Whitney Rose, and Stephen Melroy.  Jeff Craig (acting corporal) is not pictured. 
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