2017 Contest Entries

At the radioman's station behind the bomb bay, Frank Girman reminisces with his son-in-law, who has put together a video about the B-17 flight engineer and top turret gunner's war career. It was Frank's first hop on a B-17 since the Battle of the Bulge in early 1945, and though he's 93, he had better "air legs" than anybody else on the flight.

The moon was nearly full Saturday night as it rose over Athens (seen here next to the steeple of First United Methodist Church on College Street). But when it rises tonight -- Monday night -- it will be something special. It's the "Supermoon" -- so named by astrologers, not astronomers -- and it will be closer to the Earth than it has been since 1948. It will be a little bigger and a little brighter. Its real scientific name is "lunar perigee-syzygy," and when it happens Monday our only natural satellite will be a mere 221,524 miles away. The most distant the moon has been this year is 252,688 miles -- which happened on Halloween. If it's cloudy tonight and you miss it, the moon will be even closer on Nov. 25, 2034.

The author at work, economist Richard Vedder in the middle of book writing in his Ohio University office.

Devil's food cake with fluffy frosting makes politicians more interesting -- or at least that seems to be the experience of little Emily, 5, at the Athens Republicans Lincoln Day dinner Thursday evening. Even Abe himself seems to agree.

Due to bird flu, poultry had been banned from the Athens County Fair. Now the threat had passed and they were back, to the delight of this young man.

A demonstration on Court Street in Athens, Ohio.