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Hamilton, Ohio – Life pushes and pulls. Hence the name of the current exhibition at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts. Artist John Sproul of Salt Lake City offered an example of the dichotomy “When my youngest son started driving a couple of years ago, there was a certain freedom I had,” Sproul said. “Time I used to spend taking him everywhere in the car was mine again. But there also was a feeling of loss. There was a period of about 20 years I had in the car with my boys

Hamilton, Ohio – A love triangle. Sex. Murder. False confessions. Political intrigue. Nope, not a plot summary for the long-running Broadway musical hit Chicago or the latest Lifetime Movie Network original thriller. But it’s an easy mistake. Instead, it’s the story of Edythe Klumpp, a Cincinnati seamstress and night school home economics teacher who became the central figure in one of the region’s most sensational mid-century scandals. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Am

Hamilton, Ohio – The famous chandelier garners a lot of attention at Cincinnati Music Hall, but the Muses of the Arts mural painted above it tells a story many people miss. Thea Tjepkema, Friends of Music Hall board member and historian, brings those Muses to life during the March 4 Celebrating Self luncheon speaker series at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts. Celebrating International Women’s Day, Tjepkema – a historic preservationist – shares stories of women vital to t