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  • Color Capital of the World

  • Series on Ohio History and Culture
  • By: John Kropf
  • Narrated by: John Kropf
  • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

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By: John Kropf
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Publisher's Summary

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. Listeners 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.

©2022 John Kropf (P)2023 John Kropf

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