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Now that holiday season is on, you would definitely wish to make the best out of your holiday shopping experience! While in Ohio there is nothing to worry of that since this state is not certainly shy of flaunting its allure as a lucrative commercial center. A lot of exchanges go on during the holiday season attracting tourists, internationally. This holiday too Ohio has a lot of attraction packed up through its various shopping programs arranged through its myriad and diverse malls. The special packages include surprise holiday discount cards for family as well as individual ventures! There are a lot of gift cards on sale, such as the Gift of Easton. So there lays the scope to please every member of the family through your wonderful and considerate gifts of thoughtful shopping cards. Why not choose gift cards for your friends and family and let them pick their own sensible needs during these times of crisis. It is surely a great way to truly showing your kindness to your dear ones! There is potential for making everyone happy through this great bargain of gift giving. It also saves a lot of time on your part, in order to do your own holiday shopping and enjoy your special break! Gift giving stresses are also forgotten when you just hand your folks the gift cards and let them have their own choosing. More stores utilize this wise offer to expand their sales as well!

Lap up the great bargain offers on the racks of Ohio shopping malls this season. It is surely a great way to satiate your desire to splurge on yourself and those you love! There is a wide range of special sales on at every important shopping destination. Make sure that you take full swing out of these!

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Ohio and welcome to the biggest food festival held in the country of USA. Taste is one of the biggest and the longest running food festivals in Ohio. Held at Cincinnati, Taste is also one of the most popular food festivals around. Taste is to be held on Memorial Day Weekend: on six blocks of Fifth Street, from Race Street to Broadway in Downtown Cincinnati.
The greatest part of this great food festival is that it is all free and it gets immense publicity. The prestigious Best of Taste Award is given each year to the winner after a judgment procedure that goes on for weeks. More than 40 restaurants of USA participate in the glorious food festival. What better way to spend the summers then. Just pack those bags and all those culinary items and come down to Ohio for an absolute blast of a summer.

Timings
Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, 2009, 12 noon to 12 midnight;
Monday, May 25, 2009, 12 noon to 9 p.m.,

Contact

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
lsalzarulo@cincinnatichamber.
coxley@cincinnatichamber.com.
chooven@cincinnatichamber.com.
Or call up Lori Salzarulo at 513-579-3187, Cynthia Oxley at 513-579-3193 or Chris Hooven at 513-579-3124.
Website - http://www.tasteofcincinnati.com/

Ohio has several festivities and events they celebrate the whole year round. One of the most popular is the Zoar Village’s Lantern Tour’s of the Ghosts.

This event is available to visitors every Friday’s and Saturday’s for the whole month of October. The whole tour starts at 7:30 pm. Visitors are taken through a haunted stroll to Zoar Village by ghost-costumed guides.

One hundred ninety years ago, a batallion of German Separatists founded the Village of Zoar in Tuscarawas River Valley of Ohio. As the clamor for religious freedom became widespread in Germany, several members of this separatist group came to migrate to the United States sometime in 1817. As they settled in Ohio, many of them formed communal societies that lasted for a good 79 years. These communal societies soon became one of the renowned communal societies ever recorded in the history of the United States.

Today, the Zoar community still stands with the old buildings and the town hall which became a popular landmark therein. Ghost stories abound in the village. These edifices believed to have become haunted by the founders and forefathers of this ghost village.

To learn more on how to have a chilling experience at the Village of Zoar:

Call 330-874-2170 or visit here.

Want to go back to the 1600s for a few days? No, you don’t need the time machine. You just need to visit Harveysburg in Ohio as they are having this Renaissance Festival. They turned their little town into a real Medieval English Village.

The whole event is taking place over a thirty acre land. Lots of things happening there. They have built twelve stages and more than hundred shows are taking place on these stages. There are also hundred and thirty skilled crafters ready to show you their skills. They bring items that are only suitable for that era. They are all handmade items and the materials they have used to build the items are all the same materials used in the Medieval times.

But first, you may want to take a look at these knights and what they are up to. Wearing their shiny armours and armed with their lances they get engaged in jousting. This will get your adrenaline going and hurt pumping faster. Pure excitement. You can also watch the pirates battling and the fire eaters showing their skills.

As for the crafts and arts, you will see how blacksmiths used to do their job. Glass blowing, leather crafting ,woodworking and jewellery making will be demonstrated along with many others. This is one of those unique experiences that everyone in the family can enjoy together.

Contact Information
Renaissance Park
Harveysburg, OH
Phone-(513)987-7000

Date - August 30- October 19

For more information visit here

A very fun and energetic event is coming up this fall. Kinetic Cycling club of Millersburg arranged this cycling event. It is called the Holmes 100 Cycle Fest. This is the third time they are arranging it. In this event the riders will ride through the beautiful Homes County.

Little bit about the Holmes county. It is in the Eastern part of Ohio. If you divide the state by an imaginary line through the middle, from east to west, it will be just north to that line. Holmes county mainly have steep hills and narrow valleys. It is located between Lake Erie and Ohio River. All the streams of this area grains into the Ohio River.

Northern section of this county is glaciated while he southern part is more scenic and full of irregular features. While you will be cycling through this small town Ohio, which has around forty thousand friendly people, you will be enjoying the long stretches and winding roads in the beautiful valleys and fields.

After this ride you will be enjoying food and beverages with you fellow riders. There will be live entertainment al well. Bring your family members with you even if they are not riding, they can enjoy the shops and sights.

Event- Holmes 100 Cycle Fest
When- 13 September 2008
Location- Downtown Millersburg; Ride is through Holmes county

Contact Information-
Jeff Alexander
Kinetic Cycling Club
1245 Glen Dr.
Millersburg, OH 44654
Phone- (330)674-0444

You can visit their website here- http://spine-sport.com/

Remember the Quaker Women. The society of friends from early seventeenth century who used to have the most progressive about women. Their efforts later in the nineteenth century gave birth to the women’s rights movement. It has been over hundred years since those plain dresses of were worn. But Clinton County History Centre is bringing in that seventeenth touch by organizing a clothing exhibition.

 

More than forty one designer dresses will be displayed in this show. Ladies that time commonly wore plain gown, fichu or neck chief, day cap and bonnet with shawl. All these different clothing items are in the exhibition.

Contrary to what most people thick, Quaker Women did not have any strict uniform. Plain Quaker was the most popular, but there were other styles as well. The style of plain Quaker also changed over time. Red was the most popular color. Brown, Grey, Olive Green and many other dark colours were also popular. Enjoy this exhibition of colour and style rest of this fall and winter.

Simply Quaker, Women in plain dress
When-April 2 2008- December 31 2008
Hours- Wednesday-1:00 PM-4:00PM
Thursday-1:00PM- 4:00 PM
Friday 1:00PM-4:00PM
Special tours can be arranged upon request.

 

Tickets: $5 for all
Payments-checks or cash
Parking is free

Contact Information
Clinton County History Centre
149 E. Locust St
Wilmington, OH 45177
Phone- (937)382-4684
For more information you can visit here.

Pack you picnic bags and zip all you need necessary at the event of Bead International 2008 where the artistic and historic techniques of old-aged art to form basketry and beyond it the contemporary bead making. The exhibition will be held at the Sauber Gallery at The Diary Barn Arts Center. Around 135 workers and 95 artists from round the world will showcase their talents and some hidden truths of artistry. The artwork will vary in sizes, motto, and creativity. It’ll change the whole perspective of people about bead making and waving baskets since this is something the best one can showcase and let the hidden talent of people burst out in front of people resulting in respect and fame. This event is organized by Dairy Barn Arts Center on the International platform.

Also, Ohio University Press will publish a full colored magazine for the Bead International and Beyond Basketry 2008 collections and the behind the curtains pictures of workers and artists, showcasing their hard work and dedicational depth.

The event started on 13th of August and would go on till the 1st of September. So its your last chance to visit this amazing event in Ohio.

Entry Fee:

Tuesday to Saturday:
General- $5
Students-$3.50
Senior’s-$3.50
Children: Free

Contact:
The Diary Barn Arts Center
8000 Dairy Lane,
P.O. Box 747
Athens, Ohio
Website: http://www.dairybarn.org

Columbus in Ohio is famous for its artistic, cheesiest, classiest, creative and vibrant things. Salsa Mania is organized at the Bar of Modern Arts, Columbus organized by JC Entertainment. It’ll have all glory lights, shining performances, sizzling ambience and the long lasting night of dance, fun and frolic glee. Various DJ’s only the popular ones, dance bands will make their presence at the place to entertain and cherish people with their sonic sounds and wavy music. But Salsa will maintain the classy look and you’ll find the whole running crowd of people dancing tip, tap toe and striking moves by ladies, surly embrace your pulses.

The place will be open only between 9:30 p.m to 2 a.m. so, there is no limit to non-stop fun and magical dances. It is only in weekdays and the price for this glee entertainment and loving event is very economical and it varies $7 to $10 depending upon the food and drink packages. The place has some really exciting food and astonishing flavored drinks. But only people above 21 years of age are allowed. The days are August 22st and August 23rd.

The place can be reached and contacted at:

Bar of Modern Arts
595 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Website: http://www.babalusalsa.com

Ohio offers varieties of special events, exhibitions, and even occasions. When you are in Ohio, there are so many events that you can experience to entertain yourself. The exhibition which is held occasionally is the Native American Indian Art Exhibit. The visitors can enjoy the aesthetic values of the Art of the Ancients: The Ohio Valley. Visitors will be exposed to 10 000 Native American artefacts. Besides that, for music lovers, you can join the Open Mic Night for Music which is held on every Tuesday night. You will be enjoying the musical performance by local and regional musicians.

In order to give you the opportunity to learn the Ohio’s special recipes, Heini’s Thursday Evening Cooking School is opened for public. The famous and expert chefs of restaurants, inns, bed, and breakfast will share the recipes of Ohio’s delicacies. For those who love bridal gowns collection whether classic or modern, you can go to Belle Epoque Brides exhibition. The bridal gowns of 1878 to 1914 are exhibited during Belle Epoque Brides exhibition. To enjoy the finest wines of Ohio, a wine tasting event is opened for public on Saturday. The weekly wine tastings or summer hours is open for public, except Christmas and New Year.