Reddit reviews First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

Some non-food ideas:

Calvin and Hobbes books! Definitely one of the best comics created. Bill Watterson still lives in Ohio. Calvin rampages through Chagrin Falls.

Books and pictures of the Bicentennial Barns.

History on the Wright Brothers, John Glenn or Neil Armstrong

Ohio art pottery can be really nice but you can sink some serious money there. Roseville, Zanesville, Hull.


Dayton Dragons are fun too--shirts or other stuff.

I always like Amish style quilted hot pads and trivets for gifts. Pretty, small and ship well.

Of course, cardinals are beautiful! They translate well as stained glass, notecards or prints. Lot of possibilities...

Edit: remembered something else fun, depending on your relatives....Haunted Ohio. There's a series of books now and the author lives near Dayton.

> Any good books about that period you could recommend?

Sure. Here is a link to a list of a bunch of good books written by or about astronauts and the space programs, and just about every book on this list I would recommend.

Eugene Cernan's "The Last Man On The Moon" is a great and candid read in my opinion, and he goes into some great detail about his almost fatal spacewalk during his Gemini-9A mission. Neil Armstrong's "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong" is excellent as well, and in addition to talking about being the first man on the Moon, it has some interesting storytelling about the "stuck thruster" emergency that he and Dave Scott experienced during their Gemini 8 flight that almost killed them both.

Really, ANY of the astronaut auto-biographies are fantastic reads, as most of the guys are pretty candid and open about their experiences in the early days of the Space Race.