Touring-Ohio Fall Magazine
Fall Harvest -- Pick Your Own
One of the best benefits of living in Ohio are the 4 seasons, with each phase signaling a life changing transition. Fall represents one of the more dramatic times of change. It is harvest time in a state where agriculture is a major industry. More than half of all the land use in Ohio is devoted to farming. Although most families are long removed from the day-to-day chores of farm life, there seems to be some deep seated yearning to once again experience the thrill of harvest. One of the easiest ways to do that is by visiting a pick-you-own farm.
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Ohio's Beautiful Hill Country
What a combination: great year-round outdoor beauty, incredible hiking opportunities, extraordinary shopping and dining venues, plus hundreds of inns, bed and breakfasts, and hotels that will fit anyone's taste and budget. This describes Ohio's Hocking Hills area. Located about an hour southeast of Columbus, the Hocking Hills are the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. No matter how many times you visit the area, there's always something new to find.
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Ohio's National Road
The National Road holds a special place in Ohio's history as well as the nation. The National Road was the first federally planned and funded interstate highway. Crossing 6 states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois), the road linked older eastern communities with the emerging frontier settlements of the Northwest Territory. In a generation of use, the populations of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois grew from 783,635 to over 3.72 million people.
George Washington was an early supporter of a road to the west. Even before the Revolutionary War, his extensive western travels, experiences as a military commander, and land speculating convinced him that a "smooth way" was needed to "open a wide door" to the west. After the Revolutionary War, with increasing numbers of settlers moving west, Washington soon realized there was a danger of these pioneers forming political ties with Spain and England who still had influence in the Northwest Territory.
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World Class Earthworks of Ohio
One of common features of the pre-historic civilizations is that they created large mounds of earth. Some of these mounds were extremely large. Others were much smaller and on a human scale. Some mounds were used as graves for multiple generations, one on top of the other. Other mounds, now called earthworks, were built in complex enormous geometric shapes that covered 1000s of acres. Still others were built in intriguing shapes such as the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio.
Their scale is imposing by any standard: the Great Pyramid of Cheops fit inside the Newark Earthworks; four structures the size of the Colosseum of Rome would fit inside the Octagon; and the circle of monoliths at Stonehenge would fit into one of the small auxiliary earthwork circles adjacent to the Octagon.
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Ohio's Really Big Gourds
CAUTION: Giant gourd fever can strike anyone at any time. Extreme care must be taken when visiting these events lest you too may become one of the contestants next year! All it takes are few magical seeds that are freely given like the pods in that old 1950s movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Ohio has become a hot-bed of amateur agronomic study into growing giant gourds. Supporting these growers are a number of festivals and commercial nurseries that have made it a point in attracting these part-time gardeners who have spent the last 6 - 9 months of their lives nurturing their baby giants.
