On Thursday a symposium is being held at Northern Kentucky University entitled "Girls, Guns and Gambling: How Ordinary Citizens Drove Vice out of Newport," Apparently this is in the Cincinnati area.

Go to Dave Schwartz's new weblog http://www.dieiscast.com/ for links to several Cincinnati Post articles about Newport and its gaming history and the symposium. Scroll down to "New Thing At Newport" What was that that Gene tells us about 1961... The Newport Airlift... with all the gamblers heading to Las Vegas!