Dover student designs logo
Kevin Raymundo
After more than a year of collecting ideas and entries, the Gnadenhutten Public Library has a new logo designed by Kevin Raymundo, a senior at Dover High School and Buckeye Career Center.
Raymundo is a student in the graphic arts program at Buckeye Career Center and plans to continue in the field after graduation. He works part-time in the graphic design department at Robert’s Medical Uniforms in Dover.
Staff member Tina Kissinger came up with the idea for the logo based on the village name, which means “tents of grace” in German. The village was named by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger.
“Kevin understood my idea perfectly and brought it to life,” Kissinger said.
The stylized book and tepee pays homage to the village founded in 1772 by Moravian missionaries in order to evangelize the peaceful Delaware Indians in the region. Ten years later the village became infamous as the site where 96 Christian Indians including 39 children lost their lives in a senseless massacre.
The Gnadenhutten massacre orchestrated by Capt. David Williamson and carried out by his Pennsylvania militiamen is a dark blot on the history of the American Revolution. The outdoor drama, “Trumpet in the Land,” memorializes the fate of Moravian Delaware on March 9, 1782, at Gnadenhutten.