Today’s entertainment picks:

October 14, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

v “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 7:30 p.m.: Timeless tale of tolerance opens at Youngstown Playhouse, Glenwood Avenue, Youngstown; 330-788-8739.

v “A Light in the Darkness,” 7:30 p.m.: World premiere of play based on life of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss. Victorian Players Theater, 710 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown; 330- 746-5455.

v “Rent,” 7:30 p.m.: Musical about a group of young Bohemians at New Castle Playhouse, 212 E. Long Ave., New Castle, Pa.; 724-654-3437.

v Canfield Scaregrounds, 7 p.m. to midnight: Monsters roam the midway, haunted house and hayride. Canfield Fairgrounds, state Route 46, Canfield; canfieldscaregrounds.com.

v Fear Forest, 7 p.m. to midnight: Haunted hayride and Insane-Atarium haunted house on Route 45 in Lordstown, behind Dairy Queen; fearforest.com.

Program on Ohio women in Civil War

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Kelly Selby will give a free program titled “Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Melnick Medical Museum, 655 Wick Ave.

Parking is available behind the museum and in the Arms Family Museum lot across the street.

Ohio’s political and military importance to the Union victory are widely known, but often less understood is the vital contribution made by the state’s female population.

This presentation demonstrates the importance of Ohio’s women by exploring their wartime activities on the home front, focusing largely on the Soldiers Aid Societies and the Sanitary Fairs in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Selby is an assistant professor at Walsh University and has done extensive research in the history of 19th-century war and society.

For more information, contact the Mahoning Valley Historical Society at 330-743-2589.

WYSU-FM will have annual fund drive

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Listener-supported WYSU 88.5 FM, Youngstown State University’s public radio service, will have its annual fall fund drive Tuesday through Oct. 21 with a goal of $115,000 — its highest ever.

For the second drive in a row, the on-air portion of the WYSU membership drive will be just 72 hours long.

Everyone who pledges support — either as a new member, a renewing member, or with an additional gift — between now and the end of the fall fund drive will be entered into a drawing to win a pair of tickets on an 11-day tour of Vienna, Budapest and Prague.

Contributions to the fund drive can be made until Oct. 21 by phone at 330-941-1481, or through a secure online server at wysu.org.