Chalk It Up

14/ Chalk It Up. The story of the American Crayon Company began deep in the holds of 19thC sailing ships coming from England to America. They carried rough hewn blocks of chalk carved from the Cliffs of Dover used as ballast and then repurposed as school chalk. The unrefined chalk crumbled easily and made harsh scrapping sounds on the blackboard. Sandusky’s school superintendent Marcellus Cowdery asked his brother in law William Curtis to create a new refined chalk. His kitchen experiments started the ACC. This and other stories in my book Color Capital of the World available here https://blogs.uakron.edu/.../color-capital-of-the-world/