A festival that’s either set in a particular time period or springs from some aspect of history.
This post documents my experience on May 17, 2014. I headed to Grand Rapids for what was called the Lost Arts Festival… …although the online flyer referred to it as a “rendezvous.” I bring this up because, in the end, the food, refreshments and some other necessary festival elements mentioned … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 22, 2013. I finished my huge festival weekend in the town of Centerburg… …carefully parking in the saturated parking lot… …walking toward the street… …and finding a tiny bridge… …that led me here… …to the Oldtime Farming Festival. As I entered the grounds… … Read more
2023 DATE: September 15-17, 2023This post documents my experience on September 20, 2013. I started my festival weekend early Friday morn en route to Thornville… …where I got caught up in festival traffic 4 miles from the entrance gates… …and crawled for over 40 minutes to the super-loaded parking lot… … Read more
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In 2016, the festival was renamed to Hands On Heritage. This post documents my experience on September 15, 2013. ******************** At the end of a trail in the Rocky River Reservation… …people were heading to the Frostville Museum… …for a good ole Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration and Music … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 8, 2013. Way back when, after the British burned some land in Connecticut during the American Revolution, the Americans who lost their homes were able to move west to the Western Reserve of Connecticut in present-day Ohio… …on land that would eventually become … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 29, 2012. As I left the Ohio Gourd Show, I didn’t have to drive far to attend my second festival of the day. In fact, I drove less than a mile to find one of two festival parking areas, where I was shuttled to … Read more
This post documents my experience on August 19, 2012. If you’ve ever been to Grand Pacific Junction in Olmsted Falls… …not only should you recognize this stationary train… …but you should also be familiar with these old-fashioned-looking businesses. At first, it looks like fun… …a Wild West town to freely run wild … Read more
This post documents my experience on August 18, 2012. A long, long time ago, probably before Findlay’s gas boom of the 1880’s and definitely before I went to college there… …the back end of the city’s development was marked by Back Street. But now that the city has gone through so much … Read more
2023 DATE: June 23-25, 2023This post documents my experience on June 24, 2012. Put-in-Bay is a village on Lake Erie’s South Bass Island where thousands migrate for some summertime fun and occasionally rent a house for some R&R… …even Johnny Depp.* At least, that was the rumor when Julia and I … Read more