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1 month ago | 
ohio.org | Anietra Hamper |Theresa Russell |Vince Guerrieri |Damaine Vonada
{} By Ohio.org Staff Posted On: Feb 27, 2025Discover so many wonderful upcoming festivals and events this Spring in Ohio, The Heart of it All.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Damaine Vonada
The centerpiece of the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce is an 1830s farmhouse, and mounted on its front door is a patriotically themed door knocker that depicts an American eagle holding both the arrows of war and olive branch of peace in its talons.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Damaine Vonada
Why would you go to a tiny college town in northwest Ohio to tour a factory? Because it’s the Wilson Sporting Goods football factory, and for 70 years and counting, Ada, Ohio, has been the only place in the world where the National Football League’s official game ball is manufactured.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Damaine Vonada
Lebanon practically oozes history. The Warren County seat was founded before Ohio became a state, is home to the Golden Lamb (Ohio’s oldest continuously operated business) and neighbored an important but long-gone Shaker settlement called UnionVillage. With that venerable heritage, you’d expect Lebanon to have an impressive museum, and it does. The Harmon Museum sits in the heart of town and boasts three time-honored buildings that offer far more than slices of local history.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
ohio.org | Damaine Vonada |Meg Berno |Alyssa Adkins |Wendy Pramik
{} By Ohio.org Staff Posted On: Sep 4, 2024 The word "Ohio" takes its name from the Iroquois word 'ohiːyo', which means "the great river." Our state's Native American heritage is deep, from the hunter-gatherers who explored its fertile grounds thousands of years ago to the moundbuilders whose earthen monuments remain today as a quiet testament to times past. Though life has sped up since the days of the Iroquois, many sites throughout the state still stand as an invitation for visitors to...
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
ohio.org | Columbus Zoo |Damaine Vonada |Meg Berno |Alyssa Adkins
{} By Ohio.org Staff Posted On: Aug 30, 2024Ohio's charming towns offer the perfect weekend getaway this fall. As the weather cools, the leaves change colors, and pumpkins – and pumpkin-flavored treats – become a part of the landscape, there's no better time to visit these majestic locations.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
ohio.org | Michael Pramik |Damaine Vonada |Meg Berno |Alyssa Adkins
{} By Ohio.org Staff Posted On: Aug 27, 2024Summer is ending and soon the crisp air will blanket Ohio, bringing a vibrant canopy of fall colors across the state. Ohio's diverse landscape offers a variety of places to enjoy the radiant orange, burning red, and golden yellow foliage during the cooler autumn months.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Damaine Vonada
After Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, he went to Dayton to visit Orville Wright. It was supposed to be a private meeting between the world’s latest aviation hero and the world’s first aviator, but word leaked out and droves of Daytonians descended on Hawthorn Hill, Orville’s mansion in suburban Oakwood.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
lakelandboating.com | Christy Bauhs |Damaine Vonada
From the lofty observation deck of Perry’s Monument at Put-in-Bay, the world looks wide and peaceful. On clear days, it affords glimpses of Detroit and Cleveland, and verdant islands seem to float timelessly out on the water. Shaped by nature and rich in history, the Lake Erie islands have many stories to tell. Glaciers carved gigantic grooves on Kelleys Island. Ballast Island supposedly supplied rocks that stabilized Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s ships during the War of 1812.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
ohio.org | Damaine Vonada |Heather Rader |Michael Pramik |Nick Dekker
By Damaine Vonada Posted On: Jun 3, 2024Bugs are little, right? Not at The Dawes Arboretum, a botanical oasis near Newark where ten sculptures of super-sized insects – think 725-pound ants and a 17-foot-long dragonfly – currently inhabit its lush and lovely landscape. With nearly 2,000 acres and more than 15,000 plants, The Dawes is Ohio's largest arboretum.
