Category Archives: Ohio

I visited Taft’s house back in 1994. When I mentioned to my wife that we’d be close to it on this trip, she said she’d like to see it. I warned her that it wasn’t all that impressive and was … Continue reading →

We didn’t want to make the trip home from Gatlinburg in one day, so we looked for somewhere to stop along the way. Which, for us, of course means dead president stuff. Point Pleasant is a small town on the … Continue reading →

We took the ferry across Lake Erie to South Bass Island. Oliver Hazard Perry won an important naval victory over the British off the island in September, 1813. The victory enabled the United States to keep what was then the … Continue reading →

We took the ferry from the Ohio mainland to the island to visit Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial. While there, we walked the short distance to the South Bass Island Lighthouse. It is owned by Ohio State University and, … Continue reading →

We visited the Cleveland area on a hazy, humid day full of summer thunderstorms. One ended about an hour before we arrived at Garfield’s house and another one rumbled through 20 minutes after we left. We were the only ones … Continue reading →