The Hartford Apple Festival, a long time tradition in Hartford, Ohio, returns the weekend of September 16,17,and 18. It has food and rides, parades and games, crafts, history, apple peeling and pie eating contests and apples, apples, apples. Go join the fun and share a bit of Hartford History! We’re told this years apples couldn’t be better!
Conkle’s Hollow State Nature Preserve
Some of the best colors of the season will be on display at Conkle’s Hollow State Nature Preserve (about four hours from Youngstown near Rockbridge, Ohio) for the 18th Annual Fall Foliage Event. Coordinated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), this open-house styled event runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, October 16-17.
Visitors will have the opportunity to see and hear stringed instruments played by fiddlers of many skill levels. An old time fiddling contest will take place on Saturday, Oct. 16.
The 15th Annual Forest Heritage Festival will be held at the Tuscarawas County Fairgrounds in Dover (just about 1.5 hr. from Youngstown) on October 15-16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Forestry. The festival features entertainment, food, games, craft booths, demonstrations and an old-time fiddling contest. Admission and parking are free.
Netcher Rd. Bridge over Mill Creek in Jefferson Township
As well as being a great place to take in colorful fall foliage, Mahoning Valley’s neighbor to the north, Ashtabula County is also home to many authentic and restored covered bridges.
Need to get away? How about a romantic weekend? Escape to a place where you can forget that the rest of the world exists and while you take in Ohio’s breathtaking fall foliage. Escape to Yeowza Resorts less than two hours from Youngstown in Dundee, Ohio in the heart of Amish Country. (Not far from Sugarcreek, Ohio home of the Ohio Swiss Festival.)
Picture courtesy www.ColumbianaMazeCraze.com.
The good folks at Columbiana Maze Craze have transformed nearly 12 acres of corn stalks into a life-size seven foot tall maze. Over five miles of professionally designed twists, turns, and dead ends will frustrate and invigorate all at the same time.
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens. A country estate, with gardens, located at 714 North Portage Path in Akron, Ohio. It ranks sixth on the list of Largest Historic Homes in the United States.
Less than an hour from Youngtown, in Akron, Ohio is the Stan Hywet (hee-wit) Hall and Gardens, a magnificent historic house museum and country estate. Wikipedia explains that the estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. He gave it the name Stan Hywet, Old English for stone quarry, to reflect the site’s earlier use and the most prominent feature of the estate. Architect Charles Sumner Schneider designed the Tudor Revival house, with Hugo F. Huber as interior decorator.
The Steintossen, at the Sugarcreek Ohio Swiss Festival, Friday, Oct. 1 (7:30 p.m.) and Saturday, Oct. 2 (4:30 and 7:30 pm).
The Ohio Swiss Festival, was conceived way back in 1953 with the dual purpose of promoting the Swiss cheese industry and the Village of Sugarcreek. It has since become one of the state’s leading outdoor events. Sugarcreek is known as the center of the Swiss cheese industry in Ohio. Events include music, rides, crafts, food, and wine & cheese tasting from our local cheese makers and Ohio wineries. Festival hours are 6pm to 10pm Wed & Thurs, Noon to 11:00 pm on Fri. and 8:45 am to 11:00 pm on Sat. The Kiddies Parade is Friday starting at 2:00 pm and the Grand Parade is Saturday at 2:00 pm.
The Banded Wooly Bear (Pyrrharctia isabella). Top - the familiar larva stage. (Folklore has it that the the smaller the length of rust-orange band around the caterpillar – the more severe will be the winter.) Bottom - few people will recognize the Isabella Tiger Moth as the adult or ‘imago’ stage of the Wooly Bear.
The Woollybear Festival is the largest one day festival in the state of Ohio. Cleveland’s Fox 8 Meteorologist Dick Goddard hosts the fun-filled events when the 38th Annual Woollybear Parade & Festival takes over Vermilion, Ohio on Sunday, September 26th, 2010.
The woollybear wackiness all started more than three decades ago. Northeast Ohio TV weatherman Dick Goddard of Fox8 TV in Cleveland talked with some friends and co-workers about his idea of a celebration built around using the woollybear to forecast what kind of winter is ahead.
The first Woollybear Festival attracted perhaps 2,000 people but now the event attracts an estimated 15,000 and features the Woollybear Parade, one of the largest parades in the state of Ohio. It starts at 1:30 pm and lasts approximately 2 hours. It includes the Woollybear kids and pets, over 15 marching bands with nearly 2,000 musicians, radio and TV personalities, vintage automobiles, floats animals, festival queens, clowns and much more!
The Twelfth Annual Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival returns to Lincoln Park (site of two Union Army camps during the Civil War) in Tremont, one of Cleveland’s oldest neighborhoods where the architecture alone evokes its rich cultural heritage and fascinating past. Tremont has been called “A small town in the heart of the city,” and it’s easy to see why. The mission of the Festival is to celebrate the cultural and artistic diversity of Tremont and Greater Cleveland by encouraging the artistic and cultural endeavors of its visual and performing artists.
Hartford Apple Festival, September 18-20.
The Hartford Apple Festival, a long time tradition in Hartford, Ohio, returns the weekend of September 18. It has food and rides, parades and games, crafts and history and even apple peeling and pie eating contests. Go join the fun and share a bit of Hartford History! There will be a new look now with the old school gone, but we’re told this years apples couldn’t be better!