About: Jack Gieck

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Author, filmmaker, engineer, and historian Jack Gieck passed away on June 4, 2015. Mr. Gieck was an engineer and past-president of the Canal Society of Ohio and founder of Cinemark, Inc., a producer of technical and historical films including the award-winning video series Ohio’s Canal Era. He is the author of the popular A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, 1825–1913 (Kent State University Press, 1988) and of Early Akron’s Industrial Valley: A History of the Cascade Locks (Kent State University Press, 2008).

Books by Jack Gieck:

A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, 1825-1913

in Regional Interest

Early Akron’s Industrial Valley

in Regional Interest

DIG (DVD)

in History & Regional Interest

Dawn of Hope

in Regional Interest

City at the Summit

in History & Regional Interest

Coming Home, 1865

in Civil War Era & Regional Interest

Ohio’s Canal Era-DVD

in Regional Interest