LIBRARY: John Kropf at the Hudson Library [10/5]
Join the library for a live in-person author event with Ohio author John Kropf, to discuss his book, Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company.
*Please note, this is an in-person event and will not be available to attend virtually. To register, click here.
This is the story of the crayon and the Ohio town that produced more crayons and paints than anywhere in the world. 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.
John Kropf is the author of Color Capital of the World. His previous book, Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World’s Most Isolated Country that Publisher’s 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.
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.
