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Oldtime Farming Festival – Centerburg, Ohio – My Experience

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

Backwoods Fest – Thornville, Ohio – My Experience

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

Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration and Music Festival – North Olmsted, Ohio – My Experience

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

Pioneer Days – Bellevue, Ohio – My Experience

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

Back Street Festival – Findlay, Ohio – My Experience

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