If I thought summarizing Morgan's Raid within a 90-second script was a tremendous editing and performance challenge, doing the same with Commodore Perry's 1813 victory on Lake Erie was even tougher. But this was on our back doorstep. A trip to Put-In-Bay Island to shoot on-site footage helped put the thing in perspective.

This particular video won us what is, to date, the only Society for News Design Digital Award of Excellence in Advance Publications history.