iFly – Indoor Skydiving
When I was in my twenties, I thought I’d love to go skydiving. I wasn’t sure I could actually jump out of a plane, but I thought I’d like plummeting […]
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Category Archives: OKI – Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
Talk at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Ponder this: a roomful of people have congregated to discuss the issue of slavery and whether the slaveholders in the southern states of the U.S. were civil and humane. Some […]
Rookwood Pottery – A Piece of Cincinnati History
It was raining this afternoon, and the temperature dropped. It seemed like the perfect time to spend a few hours with my daughter-in-law on a Rookwood Pottery Tour. The tour […]
The Tri-State Warbird Museum
Just like the times I visited Dayton’s National Air Force Museum with my son, I knew I wanted to tour Cincinnati’s Tri-State Warbird Museum with him, too. I wanted to see […]
Cutting-Edge Cincinnati — Things That Happened Here First
1793 – First settlement to publish a newspaper. 1853 – First city to establish a municipal fire department and first firemen’s pole. 1865 – First train robbery in the U.S. […]
Airstream – (Hand)made in America
With Airstream, every day has a silver lining As soon as I approached the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio, all I saw was a field of silver glinting in […]
Shoot! Thinking Annie Oakley is from the Wild West is Way Off the Mark!
Born Phoebe Ann Moses, Annie Oakley’s persona is one of a Wild West American sharpshooter who could out-shoot any man. For the most part, that’s true, but Annie Oakley is […]
1919 – The Year That Changed Baseball
I think you all know by now that I love Cincinnati. I also love baseball. And Cincinnati loves its Reds. What I didn’t know was how pivotal events in 1919 […]
Planning to See Ohio Off the Beaten Path
As mentioned, I am an avid journaller when I travel, but I recently got a new travel journal that allows me to start journalling before my trip. I love it! […]
Want to be a Bad Axe? Spend An Hour at Urban Axes
Got an axe to grind? One might think that axes are only for chopping wood. Or pulling a Lizzie-Borden. But not anymore. Axe throwing is the latest craze and I […]
