Other than the group tours,
the Mishler Weaving Mill is open
to visitors on Wednesday afternoons
1:30 to 4:00 year round.  Please visit!
381 East Main St, Smithville, OH

Society Meeting

Blacksmith Shop Pioneer Log Cabin  The Sheller House Mishler Weaving Mill The Carriage Barn Lydo Barn Exhibit no picture yet The Historic Church of God no picture yet   Check this out!  Our special events will also be listed at WayneCountyEvents.com Links to Map & other Wayne Co. sites

The Weaver by Edgar A. Guest The patter of rain on the roof, The glint of the sun on the rose; Of life, these the warp and the woof, The weaving that everyone knows. Now grief with its consequent tear, Now joy with its luminous smile; The days are the threads of the year-- Is what I am weaving worth while? What pattern have I on my loom? Shall my bit of tapestry please? Am I working with gray threads of gloom? Is there faith in the figures I seize? When my fingers are lifeless and cold, And the threads I no longer can weave Shall there be there for men to behold One sign of the things I believe? God sends me the gray days and rare, The threads from his bountiful skein, And many, as sunshine, are fair. And some are as dark as the rain. And I think as I toil to express My life through the days slipping by, Shall my tapestry prove a success? What sort of a weaver am I? Am I making the most of the red And the bright strands of luminous gold? Or blotting them out with the thread By which all men's failure is told? Am I picturing life as despair, As a thing men shall shudder to see, Or weaving a bit that is fair That shall stand as the record of me?   Published in 1917 in the book  of his poems called Just Folks

Questions go to glhold@ameritech.net  On Saturday April 26, 2003   a Dedication was held for The Ohio Bicentennial Historical Marker at the John Mishler Weaving Mill in Smithville and the Grand Opening of the Historical Society Reception Center at 391½ East Main Street [State Route 585] Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio.

Other Special Events

July

Smithvillle Heritage Days
July 10, 11 and 12. 
Our hours for this event:

            Friday, July 10  - a couple tours of the Pioneer Village will be scheduled and Thymbles will be having a quilt show

            Saturday, July 11 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and

            Sunday, July 12 from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.   (our usual hours for open house)

August

Signing In God's Name (S.I.G.N.) will present The Gospel in Sign

at The Historic Church of God on Sunday, August 9 at 4:30 p.m.

The Church is at 147 North Milton Street, Smithville. 

Donations will be taken to cover expenses.

The S.I.G.N. Ministry Choir of the First Friends Church, Canton, Ohio

will present the Gospel in Sign.  The 25 choir members will share the love

of Christ through sign and song.  Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing

persons are all welcome and encouraged to attend. 

Sign interpretation will be provided.

The Historic Church of God is handicap accessible. 

October

Wayne County Farm Tour:  

                        The Tour this year is in our section of the county and Smithville Historical Society is one of the stops.

        Saturday, October 10 from 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and

        Sunday, October 11 from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. 

December

2009 Christmas in the Village
Saturday, Dec 5:  6 to 8 pm
Sunday, Dec 6:  1:30 to 4 pm