World War II POW Camps in Ohio olha org memberships THE DAY ALICE CAME TO

THE DAY ALICE CAME TO TOWN

APRIL-JUNE 1991

a night telescope

but this was never her dream

Stick and drop candies appeared here long before their Civil War popularity

World War II POW Camps in Ohio olha org memberships THE DAY ALICE CAME TODuring World War II, more than six thousand prisoners of war resided at Camp Perry near Port Clinton and its branch camps at Columbus, Rossford, Cambridge, Celina, Bowling Green, Defiance, Marion, Parma and Wilmington. From the start, the camps were a study in contradictions. The Italian prisoners who arrived first charmed locals with their affable, easygoing natures, while their German successors often put on a serious, intractable front. Some local