My Buckeye Lake Story: A Memorable History of "The Playground of Ohio"

Donna Fisher Braig was born in 1927 in Perry County. Later the family moved to Hebron, Ohio where she entered Hebron School in 1933. She spent her Junior High years, first at Millersport School and then Glenford School, before returning to Buckeye Lake and graduating from Hebron High School in 1945. Donna attended Capital University in Columbus for two years before beginning her teaching career at Jacksontown High School in 1947. She continued teaching and going to college, receiving her Bachelor's Degree from Capital twenty years later, in 1965. She completed thirty-five years of teaching at Lakewood High School in 1982, where she was then teaching second generation of former students. Throughout her life, she has been involved in journalism, teaching it in high school, where she says her students prepared twenty-one yearbooks; writing for the Newark Advocate and the Thornville News, and she also wrote a weekly column for several years in the Hebron Trubune, featuring local people and stories of interest. During those years, like many folks, Donna kept scrap books and research papers from her many articles, and has drawn from these for the content of her book. She was married to the former Buckeye Lake Postmaster, Jim Braig, for over thirty years. They had three children. Their oldest daughter, Beth Ann, drowned in the Ohio Canal in an automobile as a teenager. Donna has a son and a daughter and two granddaughters.Donna Fisher Braig is the author of 'My Buckeye Lake Story: A Memorable History of "The Playground of Ohio"', published 2002 under ISBN 9781887932844 and ISBN 1887932844.