Writers meeting

Writers meeting
CANTON -- The Greater Canton Writers Guild will hold it's regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Amateur Sports Hall of Fame, 1414 Market Avenue N. Guest speaker will be Kathryn J. S. Long, who will discuss her books, "Oklahoma's Gold," a mystery set in Chickasha, Okla., and "A Pleasant View," her second novel due out in April. Long, a Barberton native, is a resident of Green and is a special education teacher at Green High School. In addition to her two books, Long has written short stories, poems and song lyrics. For additional information contact Bill Rischard at (330) 699-3340.
Barnes & amp;Noble events
BOARDMAN -- Upcoming events planned at Barnes & amp;Noble Booksellers in The Shops at Boardman Park, 381 Boardman-Canfield Road, include:
Children's storytime, 10:30 a.m., Wednesday and Thursday.
Eclectic Book Group meeting, 7 p.m., Thursday. Discussion will focus on George Orwell's "Animal Farm."
American Girls Club, 7 p.m., Friday. Activities include stories, games and crafts. Participants also may bring their favorites "American Girl" doll for show-and-tell, and they may stay afterward for a trading card session.
Poland Book Club meeting, 12:30 p.m. March 13. Discussion will focus on "The Tortilla Curtain" by T. Boyle.
From KSU Press
"British Buckeyes: The English, Scots & amp; Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900" by William E Van Vugy (Kent State University Press, $55 clothbound)
KENT --Because of their similar linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds, English, Scottish and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the "invisible immigrants," assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants, the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions to farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery and engineering.
Historians have all but ignored and neglected this group of industrious settlers -- until now. In "British Buckeyes" William E. Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies gleaned from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify the occupations, settlement patterns and experiences of these early settlers and explain their role in Ohio's history.
Van Vugt, a professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., is the author of "Britain to America: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States " and co-author of "Race and Reconciliation in South Africa: A Multicultural Dialogue in Comparative Perspective." He has written numerous articles which have appeared in "The Encyclopedia of the Midwest" (forthcoming), "The Encyclopedia of New York," "Making It in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans," and "The Reader's Guide to British History."
Combined dispatches