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MOV Climate Corner: COP(out)29

The United Nations Security Council is the only organ of the United Nations that has the power to make decisions that member states are obligated to implement. Their five permanent members have veto power and are China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and the United States. There also are ten non-permanent members which are elected each year for a two year term by the U.N. General Assembly. The Presidency of the Security Council rotates monthly among the members. The United Nations Secretary-General is appointed by the Security Council. That ...

Harmar secedes: No war declared!

Secession: the act of becoming independent from another organization, state, or country. Sort of like a divorce. It can be negotiated, as when West Virginia separated from Virginia in 1863. Or it can be unilateral when 11 states left the Union in 1861 and war was declared. The Harmar ...

For much of Marietta’s history those traveling from one side of Marietta to the other depended on the Putnam Street Bridge to get across the Muskingum. When the Washington Street Bridge opened 71 years ago this week it not only provided a second way across the river, it also provided a route ...

Life on the Rivers

The Ohio River ferry PIONEER CITY approaches the landing at Marietta in late 1800’s. Yes, it’s properly called a landing, not a levee. There was no bridge then. Without bridges, ferry boats were the connections across rivers. When the Williamstown Bridge opened in 1903, the ...

Thanksgiving 1788

One of our nobler human traits has been the periodic public expressions of gratitude. Thanksgiving Day is an example of that. In the Bible, Exodus 23:16, God directed Moses to institute the Festival of Harvest, “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first fruits of the crops you sow in your field.” There have been many other festivals of thanksgiving, most notably in England and Europe dating from the 1500’s. In the United States, the popular Thanksgiving tradition is the 1621 harvest feast with Pilgrims and Natives at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. But there were other ...

MC students pitched in to help France in time of need

Before the United States decided to go “over there” and help our European allies win World War I, a group of Marietta College students volunteered to go to France and serve in an Ambulance Corps to evacuate injured soldiers from the front lines to hospitals. Beman G. Dawes, a Marietta ...