About the Book Ohio historian Robert A. Carter interviewed many of the Old-Timers in Lexington and recorded their stories in their own words, providing a rich tapestry of local Lexington history. Book Synopsis Tales of The Old-Timers - A History of Lexington records small portions of life in Lexington, Ohio, over the last two centuries. The interesting words of early writers are used just as they put them to paper. The stories are based simply on facts dug up by the author and written down with only his own understanding of times past and the perspective of old-timers used as a guide. In some cases, information supplied from fading memories may have been embellished or remembered incorrectly by the old-timers, but it provides a rich tapestry of local Lexington history Review Quotes This place is in fact a microcosm of an American history writ large. Many of the conflicts and changes central to our history played themselves out in Lexington, from frontier strife to the many men sent off to war to disagreements over slavery to spectacular alcohol consumption in the nineteenth century that gave rise to the temperance movement to industrialization to the Great Depression to the postwar suburbanization.