THE GREAT MIAMI RIVER
CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION
HAMILTON, OHIO • March 1 to May 4, 2013
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Friday, November 2, 7:00 p.m., Heritage Hall Museum, 20 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio, Exhibit Opening Presentation
The Destruction of Industrial Hamilton During the 1913 Flood, November 2012 to April 2013
Kathy Crieghton, Executive Director, Butler County Historical Society, The 1913 Flood in Hamilton
Tuesday, January 8, 2:00 p.m., Hamilton Lane Library, 300 North Third Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Jim Blount, Hamilton Historian, Flood Warning! Was Hamilton Prepared for 1913 Disaster?
Tuesday, March 5, 7:30 p.m., Wilks Center, Miami University Hamilton, 1601 University Blvd., Hamilton, Ohio
Trudy E. Bell, Science & Technology Writer, Lakewood, Ohio
Ohio’s Greatest Weather Disaster: The 1913 Flood in Hamilton and Beyond
Tuesday, March 12, 2:00 p.m., Hamilton Lane Library, 300 North Third Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Jim Blount, Hamilton Historian, Hamilton in Crisis: Who Came to City’s Rescue after March 1913 Flood?
Registration will be required. Call 894-7158 to register. Seating is limited.
Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m., Miami University Hamilton Downtown Center, 221 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Hays Cummins, Department of Geography, Miami University, Geologic History & Flooding in the Miami Valley
Monday, March 25, 12:00 Noon, Butler County Courthouse Gazebo, 315 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
City of Hamilton Centennial Commemoration of the 1913 Flood
City officials, speakers, schools, guests of the City commemorate Hamilton 1913 Flood on 100th anniversary of high water
Tuesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., Wilks Center, Miami University Hamilton, 1601 University Blvd., Hamilton, Ohio
Jim Blount, Hamilton Historian, A Hamilton Community Symposium
The Dam Lie That Saved Lives: Hamilton Family Stories of the 1913 Flood
Images from the Rob Wile, Jack Armstrong and Eckert Family Collections of 1913 Flood in Hamilton
Thursday, March 28, 7:00 p.m., Smith Library of Regional History, 15 South College Avenue, Oxford, Ohio
Valerie Elliott, Smith Library & Curt Ellison, Colligan Project, Towns on the Tributaries in the Flood of 1913
Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 p.m., Miami University Hamilton Downtown Center, 221 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Julia Dian-Reed, Service Hydrologist, National Weather Service, Wilmington, OH
1913 and Today: Forecasting for the Extremes
Monday, April 8, 7:00 p.m., Ballroom, Fitton Center for the Creative Arts
Dan Finfrock, The Bridges of Hamilton and the Floods that Affected Them
Tuesday, April 9, 2:00 p.m., Hamilton Lane Library, 300 North Third Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Jim Blount, Hamilton Historian, Remember the Promises We Made in the Attic! Obstacles to Preventing Another 1913 Flood
Registration will be required. Call 894-7158 to register. Seating is limited.
Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m., Wilks Center, Miami University Hamilton, 1601 University Blvd., Hamilton, Ohio
A Talk with Tom Rentschler, Hosted by Jim Blount, Hamilton Historian
Achievements and Legacies of the Miami Conservancy District
Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., Butler County Historical Society, 327 N. 2 nd Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Kathy Creighton & Richard Piland
The Lutie Gard Letters During the 1913 Flood: A Dramatization
Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m., MUH Downtown Center & Butler County Historical Society, 221 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Dan Antenen, Hamilton, Ohio, How a New River Was Built in Hamilton: Engineering the Miami Conservancy District
Friday, April 26, 7:00 p.m., Heritage Hall Museum, 20 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Video Documentary Premier: The 1913 Flood: Shadow Over the Miami Valley
Sam Ashworth, Heritage Hall, Middletown Historical Society, Butler County Historical Society
Friday, May 3, 7:00 p.m., Miami University Hamilton Downtown Center, 221 High Street, Hamilton, Ohio
Hamilton Civic Leaders Forum: The Future of The Great Miami River in Civic Life
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WALKING TOURS
A Guided Interpretive Tour of Hamilton 1913 Flood Sites
Walk Downtown Hamilton 1913 Flood sites where costumed interpreters tell first-hand accounts of the disaster.
Tour groups form at Hamilton Visitors Center, High and Monument Streets, Hamilton, Ohio.
Sunday, March 24 @ 2:00 & 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 30 @ 2:00 & 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 6 @ 12:00 & 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
View museum exhibits telling the flood story: at Heritage Hall about industry, Fitton Center about bridges, Butler County
Historical Society about neighborhoods, Hamilton Lane Library about Downtown, the Courthouse about the government response,
Partners in Prime about Rossville, and in Oxford, at Smith History Library about regional flooding.
COMMUNITY FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 4, Community Festival, RiversEdge Park & Amphitheater, Hamilton, Ohio
Celebrate the Conservancy District and Hamilton’s future as a river city at a public concert of Songs and Stories of River Life with
the Rabbit Hash String Band, Songs and Stories of River Life, and other performances inaugurating RiversEdge Amphitheatre as a
community resource.
The 1913 Flood Commemoration is an initiative of the City of Hamilton and Miami University
Hamilton via the Michael J. Colligan History Project. Partners include the Butler County Historical
Society, Butler County Courthouse, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton City Schools, Hamilton
Community Foundation, Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Visitors Center, Heritage
Hall, Lane Public Libraries and Partners in Prime, with support of the Hamilton Community
Foundation, Miami University Hamilton, Cox Media Group Ohio and many community volunteers.