08/18/2026
How does history help us navigate the present? How can we handle uncomfortable chapters of our past?
A free panel discussion, open to the public at the CCHS Museum, will tackle these and other questions at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 29.
Please join us for an engaging discussion, moderated by CCHS Board President Dusty Hurst. We’re fortunate to have a panel of four local professionals who have made history their life’s work:
• AMANDA GOODWIN, seventh grade social studies teacher and department chair at Urbana City Schools. She holds degrees in political science and social studies education, grades 7-12, and has been honored to attend teacher institutes at Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, and Salem, Massachusetts.
• SCOTT MARSH, middle school world and American studies, freshman world studies, and research methodology teacher at Mechanicsburg Exempted Village Schools.
He has served as Education Advisory Committee Co-Chair with Friends of Flight 93. In 2023, he and his team, including members of the Flight 93 National Memorial, were awarded the National Parks Service Northeast Region of Excellence in Education Award: Teach to Remember 9/11.
He authored a chapter, "Understanding Children's Visits to Difficult Heritage Sites: Children's Sense of Place,” in the 2022 book “Children, Young People and Dark Tourism” (Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series).
• MARGARET PIATT, who began and is ending her career at her family’s museum, Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek, in Logan County, where she works with a professional staff and a board for the Mac-A-Cheek Foundation.
She worked her way from museum teacher to Associate Director of Education at the living history museum Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. She also served as site manager for Historic Hudson Valley in New York, as a nationwide consultant in museum education and interpretation, living history, and theatre, and taught speech and theatre at Urbana University.
• KANE STRATTON, playwright and projects manager with Caesar’s Ford Theatre (CFT) of Xenia, an American Indian-led performing arts nonprofit organization. CFT is dedicated to improving American Indian historical drama and lifting the standard of historically accurate interpretations.
Stratton wrote and directed “Caesar: An American Maroon,” the first film produced in Ohio with a cast of Shawnee Tribal citizens and dialogue in the Shawnee language.
More recently he wrote and directed “Stomping Freedom,” which premiered earlier this year in Yellow Springs. The film, he says, shares the “other side” of history that took place in Ohio 250 years ago, before this land was a part of the United States. Specifically, it captures the tension between Shawnee villagers and American settlers in 1778, during the American Revolution.
