Conrade C. Hinds\, author of Made In O hio\, will share stories of inventions such as the Etch-A-Sketch and products like Quaker Oats that came from Ohio. Hinds worked as an architec t\, and has lived in Central Ohio for 46 years. He's a board member of the Columbus Landmarks Foundation\, and retired from the City of Columbus\, w here he worked as a Project Manager at the Columbus Dublin Road Water Plan t. He is a storyteller who focuses on forgotten history.
\nC onrade C. Hinds is originally from Nashville\, Tenn. and a gradua te of Ball State University in Muncie\, Indiana where he studied architect ure and industrial technology. He has lived in Central Ohio for 42-plus ye ars and is a registered architect licensed in Ohio and New York. He retire d as a Facilities Project Manager with the City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities. He also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Engin eering Dept. at Columbus State Community College for 28 years.
\nAs a licensed Auctioneer\, he likes to give back to the community by donating his services to a variety of charitable fund raising events such as Opera tion Feed. Conrade and his wife Janet have four adult children and 4 grand children and enjoy visiting historic sites in America and Europe.
\nConrade is the author of the books \;Made in Ohio: A History of Bu ckeye Invention &\; Ingenuity\, \;Lost Circuses of Ohio\, Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913: The Disaster that Reshaped the Ohio Valley\, and \;The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908: Waterwo rks that Changed the World. \;As an author he enjoys researching and writing about forgotten history.
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