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. […]
Category Archives: Ohio
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
Cincinnati Reds 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 […]
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 […]
The Legendary Lights of Clifton Mills
I’d never heard of Clifton Mills before I saw a press release for it. I saw that it was near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a cute little artsy town that Tri-Staters […]
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
It’s wonderful to venture out and see all the light displays of the Christmas season. But at Heritage Village Museum in Cincinnati, they decorate a little differently: the historical houses […]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
On the strike of the hour, the bells of this glockenspiel (a clock tower with animated figures) ring out and the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin unfolds. It […]
Gotta Get Some Goetta!
If you don’t know what goetta is, you probably haven’t been to Cincinnati. Even a lot of Cincinnatians don’t know exactly. They’ve likely heard of it though, even if they […]
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