Ohio is one of the more active states when it comes to magic and for a very long time (prior to "the cinema" you might say) it was one of the "Capitols" of magic. In my home town of Springfield there is a now falling apart theater that was once the main booking house for Vaudeville acts. Backstage on one of the corridor walls you would find the signatures of Bess & Harry Houdini, Blackstone and numerous other greats of the magic world as well as people like the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields and so on. Columbus, Ohio was the home of Howard Thurston & Robert Nelson and remains so in death.
If you cannot travel that's one thing, if you think folks should feel honored to meet you and thus, come to your door. . . sorry, but they will rarely do that for old farts that have the stink of history on them. . . not that I would know of such people. . .
It's difficult, at best, to live in Ohio and not have access to other magicians. . .