Cincinnati, Oh. — Author Kathryn Witt will hold a presentation for her guidebook, Secret Cincinnati: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, at Roebling Point Books, 306 Greenup St., Covington, KY 41011. This event is set for Saturday, April 13 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Kathryn will be introduced by John Witt, the photographer for the book. She will discuss six “secret” venues from the book, show some artifacts, and share details about why they are located in the greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area.
Is it safe to photograph bobolinks at a once-contaminated nuclear weapons plant? Is it possible to channel a medium from whatever realm she inhabits in the afterlife? Is that really a bathtub hanging from the ceiling?
Did you know you can watch an unscripted star show with an audience of only eighteen? Find pieces of an exquisite old castle-like building all over the city? Hear a free concert outdoors in the dead of winter? Conduct your own paranormal investigation at a honky-tonk? See the world’s largest steam engines? Browse and buy animal skulls?
Told with wonder, humor, and a big dose of sentimentality, here is a travel guide that lauds those little (and little-known) treasures all over town. From a tower missing its church and a maze you can meditate your way through to a book relating to a real-life beheading and a memorial to the last passenger pigeon, Secret Cincinnati is an exuberant shout-out to all that makes Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky the sometimes weird and always wonderful place it is.
Secret Cincinnati: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure is available at reedypress.com and wherever books are sold.
