ATHENS — Unrest in the coal fields of Hocking County will be the subject of a discussion in the Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series at noon Thursday at the Southeast Ohio History Center, 24 West State St., in Athens.
Jobie Seimer, a former Green Beret, author and military historian will discuss his book “The Clash at Sunday Creek: Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” about the Battle of Corning on Sept. 19, 1880, the 144th anniversary of the first battle of the Ohio National Guard.
Seimer describes Southeast Ohio as a rugged region in the 1800s with an influx of migrants and immigrants who changed the landscape, the nature of life and the economy. Nowhere was this truer than in Corning and Rendville, mining towns reminiscent of the Wild West era with gun duels, scandals, lynchings and murders…