Festivals that are no longer with us.
This post documents my experience on September 29, 2012. As I finished my festival day from Columbus to Greenville to Tipp City to Dayton and back to Columbus again, I was lucky enough to make it in time to finish my day… …at Smith Farm Market‘s Fall Festival. It was a … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 28, 2012. When I arrived near the Riverfront Arts Festival in Columbus, I wasn’t sure where I was supposed to park. Since it was located right next to COSI (Center of Science and Industry)….…there was plenty of paid parking in the area… …(even … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 22, 2012. Deep within the controlled wilds of Oberlin’s Tappan Square…. .…Julia, my mom, my aunt and I followed people toward the gazebo…. .…resisting the Obama volunteer who tried to lead us in the opposite direction (nice try, buddy!)…. . …and joining everyone at … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 15, 2012. Martin Van Buren Bates was born in Letcher County, KY in 1837, born a normal-sized baby to normal-sized parents and living the first few years of his life…well… …normally. . But when Martin was six years old, all that normalcy went … Read more
This post documents my experience on August 4, 2012. Eastlake is the “Crown Jewel of Lake County” and where you can find the Lake County Captains minor league team, the Boulevard of 500 Flags Memorial, the First Energy generating plant that shut down and led to the Northeast Blackout of 2003… …and the Eastlake … Read more
This post documents my experience on July 9, 2012. If you’ve read many of my other festival posts, you may have noticed how culturally diverse the city of Lorain is through such festivals as… …St. Anthony’s Pierogi Fest… …St. Nicholas Greek Festival… …Russian Food Festival… …Hungarian Day… …Las Fiestas Patronales… … Read more
This post documents my experience on June 23, 2012. Not only is the historic city of Bedford the birthplace of Archibald Willard, painter of the The Spirit of ’76 (he later lived and died in Wellington)… …it has a jewelry shop that sells local pasta sauce… …a Gionino’s Pizzeria branch right across the street… … Read more
This post documents my experience on May 12, 2012. One day, while mindlessly checking festival feed on the Ohio Festival Facebook page, a kind soul shared that there was a festival starting up in the NW Ohio village of Ottawa… …called Festival in the Flats. Of course, The Flats is a reference to Cleveland … Read more
This post documents my experience on October 11, 2011. When you have a relatively old building (1906) where there used to be a basement mortuary for a number of years (20), its reuse could be rather limited. Perhaps you could hold some ghost tours there or even duplicate a Victorian … Read more