Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company (Series on Ohio History and Culture)
Kropf, John Whitworth
ISBN 10: 1629222275 ISBN 13: 9781629222271
Published by University of Akron Press, 2022
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This is the story of the crayon. Following the Civil War, three entrepreneurial families took their innovative ideas for school chalk from the kitchen stove and transformed them into the American Crayon Company. Color Capital of the World tells this story through the eyes of one of the founding family's descendants, tracing the cycle of build, boom, and bust. Readers will come away feeling a greater appreciation of the human story behind the crayon and the Ohio town that produced more crayons and paints than anywhere in the world.
Winner of the 2023 Local History Publication Award from Bowling Green State University’s Center for Archival Collections in the book category Independent Division.
About the Author:
John Kropf is the author of Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World’s Most Isolated Country, which Publishers Weekly praised as a fascinating narrative bound to hook adventurers. His writing has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Kropf was born in Sandusky and raised in Erie County, Ohio. He is an attorney in the Washington, DC, area.
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Title: Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with ...
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good