Bexley Public Library is closed on Tuesday, October 22nd due to a power outage
Conrade C. Hinds, author of Made In Ohio, will share stories of inventions such as the Etch-A-Sketch and products like Quaker Oats that came from Ohio.
Conrade C. Hinds, author of Made In Ohio, will share stories of inventions such as the Etch-A-Sketch and products like Quaker Oats that came from Ohio. Hinds worked as an architect, 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, where he worked as a Project Manager at the Columbus Dublin Road Water Plant. He is a storyteller who focuses on forgotten history.
Conrade C. Hinds is originally from Nashville, Tenn. and a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where he studied architecture and industrial technology. He has lived in Central Ohio for 42-plus years and is a registered architect licensed in Ohio and New York. He retired as a Facilities Project Manager with the City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities. He also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Engineering Dept. at Columbus State Community College for 28 years.
As 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 Operation Feed. Conrade and his wife Janet have four adult children and 4 grandchildren and enjoy visiting historic sites in America and Europe.
Conrade is the author of the books Made in Ohio: A History of Buckeye 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: Waterworks that Changed the World. As an author he enjoys researching and writing about forgotten history.
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Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
The library is located at 2411 East Main Street, at the intersection of East Main Street and Cassady Avenue. Parking is available in our parking lot on Euclaire Avenue and in front of the library on Main Street. Main Street is a No Parking Tow Zone from 4:00-6:00 p.m. weekdays.