The Village of Yellow Springs Public Arts & Culture Commission invites the community to join us on Saturday, April 11 at 7:00 PM at the Yellow Springs Senior Center Great Room for the next installment of its America 250 Speaker Series.

This program welcomes Jeremy Turner, Vice President of Caesar's Ford Theatre,  cultural educator and storyteller whose work calls us to look more closely at the ground beneath our feet—and to ask who has known it longest. Turner was also featured in Ohio Country on WYSO, where he contributed to conversations about place, memory, and the layered history of our region.

In this talk, Turner will speak to the enduring relationship between the Little Miami River and the Shawnee people, a relationship not confined to the past, but alive and insistent. Long before roads and property lines, the river carried life, language, and story. It shaped our movement and sustained communities. It witnessed histories that are too often forgotten, or worse, overwritten.

This event is part of Yellow Springs’ participation in America 250, a national commemoration marking 250 years of American history. Through this speaker series, the Village seeks not just to celebrate, but to add depth to the story so that it begins to resemble the truth. The program will conclude with a screening of "Stomping Freedom" a production by Kane Stratton, Caesar's Ford Theater resident playwright and project manager.