Author and paper scientist Scott Mingus enjoys a recent Cincinnati Reds victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Great America Ballpark on Tom Browning Perfect Game Night.
I have spent much of this year on temporary assignment to our paper mill in my native southern Ohio. Ironically, I worked at this same mill (three ownership groups ago!) when I was a 19-year-old newlywed. Debi and I rented an old house for the summer between my junior and senior years at Miami University, where I was majoring in Pulp & Paper Science and Engineering. Little did I realize I would be back three decades later as an executive with a different company that bought the mill.
Great America Ballpark – home of the Reds.
I have had plenty of time this summer to see area baseball teams (Columbus Clippers and my beloved Cincinnati Reds!) and to visit my mother in a nursing home a couple hours away from here. After my evening walks, I have been researching and writing another human interest book on the Battle of Gettysburg. I have primarily been using old regimental histories, newspaper accounts, and journals (some from local libraries and historical societies, but many on-line at Google Book Search). I have just completed and submitted my latest manuscript: Gettysburg Glimpses: True Stories from the Battlefield. There are a few new York County, Pa., stories in this book.
Watch for it in 2009 from Colecraft Books, which is becoming one of the region’s best botique publishers.
Scott L. Mingus, Sr. is a scientist and executive in the paper and printing industry, as well as the author of several books and magazine articles on the Civil War, including some that deal primarily with York County during the Gettysburg Campaign.
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