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The fossil coral reefs exposed at the Oakes Quarry Park in Fairborn, Ohio are among the oldest Silurian fossil reefs in the United States. These reefs formed during the important transitional time in the history of reefs, when corals were becoming more important as reef frame builders. The coral-stromatoporoid reef…
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Car Collector magazine was not wrong when Dayton, Ohio’s America’s Packard Museum was picked as one of the “Top Ten” Auto Museums in The United States. This museum, located inside the 1917 original Packard dealership building, boasts as the “largest public collection of Packard automobiles and memorabilia anywhere in the…
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Ruggedly beautiful – that’s how I call the Temple of Tolerance in Wapakoneta, Ohio. The owner, Jim Bowsher, started building this on his backyard in 1981. Its purpose is to help troubled kids find peace and keep them from ending behind bars. What is this exactly? It’s a collection of…
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The year 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing (yes, that was 1969)! I had been planning to visit this museum after I read an article online about its story. And finally, in October 2019, I got to see what Armstrong Air and Space Museum has to…
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Have you traveled and visited the Fallsville Wildlife Area located in New Vienna, Ohio? It has a small but pretty waterfall. The trails are well-marked and, although it could become hilly at times, it is still easy to traverse. Where is it located? 10211 Careytown Rd, New Vienna, OH 45159Google…
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Wilbur and Orville are the famous Wright Brothers who invented the plane. They are the pioneers of aviation! Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867. His younger brother Orville was born in 1871. Do you know that Wilbur was the middle child in a family of five children? The…
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It was a nice Friday late afternoon at the Xenia Community Festival in Xenia, Ohio! I arrived with the Shawnee Park already full of spectators, mostly families with young kids. The vendors had their night lights on already as dusk could hit the horizon any sooner. Many visitors were seated…
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The first settlers in the Ohio area were the Adena Native Americans (800 BCE–100 AD), who were known for their mounds. I traveled around Southwestern Ohio visiting these mounds and learning about the Adena Culture and those that followed, such as the Hopewell (200 BCE–500 AD), and Fort Ancient (1000–1750…
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