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David P. Mitzel

David P. Mitzel

Profession:

Director, AHoOT (Appalachian Hills of Ohio Territory)

Five Words About Me:

Community member, Luddite, doer, Dewar’s

One Surprising Skill:

I game shopping. I recently saved $1200 on an $89 purchase at Kohl’s

AHoot
Zanesville Prize
PSZ Clay

An Ohio native, I graduated from Williams College and left for Spain where I ran with the bulls and perched over Barcelona from Gaudi’s Park Guell and his La Sagrada Familia. Crossing to Africa, I met Loren Jenkins (Newsweek and NPR) who pitched Columbia University for journalism.  Stateside, I became a field editor for college textbooks at T.Y. Crowell and Praeger publishers abutting Columbia experience. After breaking up with a diplomat’s daughter, I drifted and ran into some drifts cab-driving and bartending. Regrouping, I served George Washington University before landing at Ohio University-Zanesville. Thirty-nine years later: a Ph.D; founding and directing a community foundation, the Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics and the All Ohio; the Foot by Foot on the Winding Road event for 100 artists; and AHoOT. I perch in Pioneer School above downtown Zanesville.

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