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ARBOR DAY FESTIVAL
(Admission is Free)
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When: April 26, 2008 from 10am to 4pm
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Location:
Dawes Arboretum at
7770
Jacksontown Road SE
in Newark,
Ohio
43056
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Phone: 800-
443-2937
This
is a long-awaited event for both man and tree. Think about it; trees give us
fruits, nuts, wood for homes, fuel, paper, medicines, shade and beauty. This
Arbor Day Festival gives us an opportunity to give appreciation to Mother
Nature. An array of activities and educational displays go on all day, including
tree climbing and kids’ crafts.
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The Bellbrook Sugar Maple Festival is one of the
first outdoor festivals of the year in southern Ohio. Nestled in the Little
Miami River valley, historic Bellbrook is small town America at its most
patriotic and picturesque. In addition to all of the expected arts, crafts,
concessions, children's activities, and entertainment (this is serious bluegrass
country), the Sugar Maple Festival includes a 5K run (9am Saturday), 10-mile
bicycle time trial (8:30am Sunday), maple syrup cooking contest, dog show
(6:30pm Friday) and a pie auction.
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When: April 19, 2008
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Location: Philo, Ohio
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Phone: 740-674-4300
Ever thought about building a
house out of tires, or cans or bottles or blazing the trail for blue birds?
Blue Rock Station has and they will be offering tours of the house as well as
workshops on recycling, spinning llama wool, solar power and creating blue bird
trails. Representatives
from Muskingum County Recycling, Shew’s Orchard at Hickory Ridge, the Blue Bird
Society and Third Sun Solar of Athens County will provide workshops. Children
can participate in the Creative Waste Fun Workshop taught by Annie Warmke to
learn how to make a whirly gig for the garden, or a bird feeder.
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BUCYRUS MODEL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION TRAIN
SHOW
(Admission = $3.00 for adults and Children
under 12 are Free)
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When: Saturday, April 12, 2008 from10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
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Location: Crawford County Fairgrounds in
Bucyrus, Ohio
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Phone: 1-866-562-0720
Along with the Swap Meet the Model Railroad
Club Room will be open with their model trains operating for all to enjoy.
Exhibit tables are available for selling, trading and swapping.
BUTTERFLY SHOW AT KROHN
CONSERVATORY
(Call for admission prices)
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Open: April 19 - June 15, 2008
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Location: 1501 Eden Park Drive · Cincinnati, OH 45202
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Phone: 513-421-5707 (TTY 513-352-3380)
Join the Cincinnati Park Board in Eden Park for an up close and personal
look at a remarkable collection of butterflies.
Printout:
Krohn Conservatory
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COMMUNITY GARDEN CONFERENCE
(Admission: $25.00 a day $45.00 for both days, includes lunch)
The Ohio Community Garden Conference, “Growing Neighborhood Leaders”, is
part of the Franklin Park Conservatory’s Growing to Green Community Gardening
Program. Growing to
Green is Columbus' largest organized effort to promote and provide free
community resources for community gardening and city beautification.
The annual conference brings participants from
across the regions, which are engaged in all aspects of gardening and greening.
The conference includes presentations, hands-on workshops, keynote speakers, and
garden displays. Franklin Park Conservatory’s
community gardening program, Growing to Green, other major Ohio Community garden
programs and the American Community Gardening Association will present programs.
It promises a diverse group of presenters to share a wide range of
information about gardening and greening, including: community gardeners,
horticultural therapists, horticulturists, teachers and other educators,
landscape designers and architects, parks and planning staff, open space
advocates, nutritionists, organizers and leaders, community food security,
public employees, artists and filmmakers, and youth.
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CONCERT EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
FAIR
(Admission is Free)
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 When: Saturday, April 26, 2008
from 12:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
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Location: Miami Whitewater
Forest at 9001 Mt. Hope Road in Harrison, OH 45030
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Phone: 513-686-0234
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Web Site:
www.concertearth.com
The goal of this event is to
bring people together that share a concern and respect for our planet and all
living things on it. It is for those who want to protect and benefit from its
resources by educating individuals and families on how they can make a
difference. There will be exciting exhibits and displays on alternative sources
of energy such as solar and wind power, solar and geo-thermal heating,
alternative fuels, hybrid vehicles, recycling, conservancy, healthy living, and
much more. There will be a celebration of music by local musicians hosted by
SOL Records. The music will run all day from 12:00pm – 11:00 pm. Craft vendors
will be there displaying their beautiful creations made from natural materials
from our great earth. There will be fun activities and educational
demonstrations for the children. The park will provide food and beverages
including alcohol. Bringing in alcohol is prohibited. Be creative and enter the
recyclable art contest, just visit
www.concertearth.com and email the listed
information. The park also offers many activities so come and ride a bike,
float a boat, fly a kite, and hike a trail. Bring your lawn chairs. Come
celebrate what our beautiful earth has to offer!
 CROSSROADS
OF DESTINY
Crossroads of Destiny, Indians, Settlement, and Treaty
of Green Ville
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When: Opens Sunday,
April 20 at 1pm and will be on display throughout 2008 and beyond.
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Location:
Garst Museum and Annie Oakley Center, located at
205 North Broadway in Greenville, OH 45331.
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Phone: 937-548-5250
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Web address:
www.garstmuseum.org
The largest stockade fort ever
built in North America can now be seen for the first time ever, as it was in
1795 when it hosted one of the most significant treaties ever negotiated with
American Indians.
The fascinating story of one of
the most pivotal times in American history has been largely neglected until now.
Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio is unveiling artifacts never before seen by the
public in the exhibition, Crossroads of Destiny, Indians, Settlement, and
Treaty of Green Ville. It spans four rooms, includes about 1,000 artifacts
and took nearly 100,000 hours to assemble. The grand opening of this epic
journey is April 20, 2008.
“This is the only exhibition I am
aware of that deals exclusively with the entire scope of the Indian Wars and the
subsequent Treaty of Green Ville,” said historian Floyd Barmann, former director
of the Clark County Historical Society in Springfield, Ohio.
To tell the story accurately, it took several historians
and archaeologists to come together and share decades of independent research.
They were bound by a quest to discover and share the truths that correct many
errors perpetuated in history books.
The chronological walking tour includes 28 display cases.
Each case has authentic artifacts and weaves a story that begins with
prehistoric Native Americans and climaxes as America’s Crossroads of Destiny
in 1795 with the historic signing of the Treaty of Green Ville that included 12
Indian nations and the United States. The Treaty was signed at Fort Greene
Ville. Surprisingly, there are no known images in existence of this massive
fortress.
Today, downtown Greenville and its surrounding area are
built over top of the old fort. Most of the artifacts have been discovered in
just the past 20 years. When sidewalks get dug up, they often reveal musket
balls and soldier buttons. When farmers rotate their crops, flint types or arrow
heads regularly surface. Greenville is an archeological goldmine for the
Federalist Period 1789 -1801, also referred as the
Critical Period in this nation’s history. Each piece in the Crossroads exhibit has been
authenticated by expert archaeologists and means such as carbon dating. The
oldest relic on display dates back 14,000 years.
The quest for an accurate reflection of this chapter in the
nation’s rich heritage came with years of difficult work and sometimes pure
luck!
Archaeologist Tony DeRegnacourt
and Dr. David M. Cox met and shared their discoveries to begin mapping, for the
first time, where Fort Greene Ville stood. Since much of it is underneath the
city, they pinpointed where they believed Block House 8 stood. Blockhouse 8 was
larger than many forts in and of itself. With the permission of a farmer, they
began excavating and made the stunning discovery of earth stained by logs that
used to be the blockhouse. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, historian Dave
Heckaman was doing research at the University of Michigan’s Clements Library in
Ann Arbor. He opened a drawer and discovered the first ever map of the
Greenville wilderness area. It showed creeks and the order of camp for troops,
including the Kentucky Militia, commanded by Major General Arthur St. Clair in
1791. It is the first known map of the area and has never before been seen by
the public. A copy of this map will also be displayed at Garst Museum’s
Crossroads of Destiny exhibition.
Once combined, the independent
research started revealing puzzle pieces that told a different history than was
being taught. The location of Blockhouse 8, places where officer and
foot-soldier belongings were discovered, a map showing the topography of a 1791
wilderness and other clues were assembled to produce Crossroads of Destiny.
Notes and discoveries were turned
over to master model maker Andrew Janicki. With it, he produced the first ever
historically accurate replica of the Fort at Greene Ville. The original fort had
a manuscript plan drawn up by a quartermaster at the order of General “Mad”
Anthony Wayne. But no images of the actual fort have ever been discovered and as
suspected, the finished fort wasn’t exactly as planned. Modifications were made.
But in addition to the modifications, other discoveries reveal what no
manuscript plan (or blueprint) ever could. For example, where the soldier huts,
blockhouses and pickets were erected as well as the eight squares where
regiments camped. The model accurately reflects not only where these stood but
also where there were bake houses, citadel, sutler stores, gardens, shops and
more. The scale is 1/64” = 1’. Keep in mind, the original fort’s capacity was
4,000 troops, it had interior walls measuring 900 feet by 1,800 feet, the picket
spanned 50 acres and this was the headquarters of the United States Army from
1793 – 1796.
The walk through this time
concludes in the fourth room dedicated to the Crossroads exhibit and is
highlighted with the Class of 1795 describing the famous Americans that took
part in the Treaty of Greene Ville. Future President William Henry Harrison was
present as were Chief Little Turtle and “Mad” Anthony Wayne. Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark met here for the very first time.
Each exhibit case has
extraordinary detail, wide variety of authentic artifacts and vivid artistry to
recreate a compelling story in a historically accurate way that will teach not
only about historic events but Indian and soldier lifestyles, cultures, tools,
documents and weapons. It doesn’t just reflect the period of Fort Greenville but
goes into great detail beginning with the Paleo Tradition to properly set up the
chain of events that led to the Treaty of Green Ville’s opening of the Northwest
Territory making Ohio the Gateway State and Greenville this nation’s
Crossroads of Destiny.
Printout:
Crossroads of Destiny
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Elvis Presley the "Original" American Idol
and the Fabulous Fifties and Sixties exhibits (Admission is $3
adults, $2 seniors, $1 children 6 and up)
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When: Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 PM, November, December,
March and April and by appointment only in January and February
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Location: Heritage Hall Museum, 169 East Church Street,
Marion Ohio 43302
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Phone: 740-387-4255
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Web address:
www.marionhistory.com
Visit the Marion County Historical Society museum Heritage
Hall and tour the “Elvis – the Original American Idol” and “The
Fabulous 50’s & 60’s” exhibits. Featured is a large collection of Elvis
memorabilia on loan to the Historical Society from the collection of Jon Daly
a local collector and president of the Elvis Memories Loop Fan Club as
well as a nostalgic trip down memory lane into the world of soda pop, early TV,
record albums, Howdy Doody and aluminum tumblers! Tours of the Wyandot
Popcorn Museum and the Marion County Historical Society's Warren G. Harding
collection are also included with admission to Heritage Hall.
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HERB
FAIR
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When: April 26-27, 2008
from 10am - 4pm
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Location: Vermilion River
Reservation, Lorain County Metro parks at 51211 North Ridge Rd. in Vermilion,
Ohio 44089
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Phone: 440-967-7310
Start your planting season out right, and join the annual Mill Hollow Herb
Fair. The Carriage Barn will be full of local vendors selling potted herbs
and various herbal products. Many food vendors will also be selling an array
of appetizing treats.
There will be a variety of exciting
activities for kids and adults; this event is fit for the whole family. The
children’s activity corner will be full of fun herb crafts as well as other
kid-friendly garden ideas. Adults can learn more about useful wild plants found
in this area by joining a naturalist on a medicinal plant hike through Bacon
Woods. Don’t miss this great opportunity to buy some nice herbs and products
while also learning more about gardening and herbal use.
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LAKE ERIE WING WATCH WEEKEND
- When: April
11-13, 2008
- Location:
Huron, OH
- Phone:
1-800-255-3743
This weekend of educational and entertaining activities is for anyone interested
in birds or birding. Activities include Friday night and Sunday bird hikes. On
Saturday, there will be a Breakfast with the Birds at Old Woman Creek, sessions
on a variety of topics, bird walks, exhibitors, vendors, and a raffle plus lunch
and keynote speaker Bill Thompson III.
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MAPLE SUGARING FESTIVAL
(Admission is $5 Adults and $4, 14 and under)
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When: April 6, 2008 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Location: Olander Park in Sylvania, Ohio
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Phone: 419-882-8313
It’s delicious on
pancakes, sweet in candy and fabulous as fudge, but where does maple syrup come
from? Let’s start at the source. We will begin our journey at a sugar maple tree
and take a stroll through the past. Discover how important maple sugaring was to
natives, pioneers and even soldiers. Help out with boiling off the sap and take
a wagon ride back to the Maple Market to indulge your sweet tooth. Printout:
Maple Sugaring Festival.
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When: Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 10 a.m. until
4 p.m.
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Location: Century Village at Fryer Park in Grove
City, OH 43123
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Phone: 800-539-0405
Relive the period from the American Revolution
through the Civil War. Troop encampment, field hospital, frontier life, one
room school, furnished log home, discharge of black power rifles, tomahawk toss,
live music from this period.
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