The previous weekend, we went to Mansfield Prison as part of Grace’s local college alumnae seasonal get-together. While we missed the alum group because of a late start, we did go through the annual the Haunted Prison Experience run at the old prison. It’s the first time we went through one of those [...]
As our guide pulled the bus through the Jurassic Park-lite gate and electric fencing, she said that The Wilds nature conservancy is equal in land area to all the zoos in North America combined. About 3.5 hours south of Cleveland, its 10,000 acres was donated from an American Electric Power surface mine, and houses [...]
Cleveland’s 4th of July fireworks again, from the roof of a building in the west Flats. You know, fireworks photos more or less look the same, after you’ve seen, say, a dozen or two of them. The photos also aren’t particularly good representations of what you see with the naked eye: exposure times [...]
City Data looks like useful summary information for all sorts of US cities. Here’s the page for Ohio’s Bigger Cities (over 6000 residents) and Cleveland in particular. Lots of neat demographic, climate, economic, etc., information.
This past Saturday, we went to Blossom again, using our last two upgrades where we traded in lawn tickets for pavillion seats. Blossom was relatively empty that evening: it had been raining all day, though the sun had come out a couple of hours before nightfall. At the beginning of the concert, the [...]
In New York, it’s relatively hard to pick up tickets for Yankee games. In Cleveland, I stopped by the team store at Jacobs Field the week before Tuesday’s game and got two behind home plate, albeit towards the back of the upper deck. Much easier, and the ballpark is only a leisurely 20-minute [...]
This is a neat site on Cleveland skyscrapers, containing a lot of photographs, a bit of Cleveland’s architectural history and interesting facts. For example, the paucity of downtown skyscrapers — compared to Chicago and New York — is due as much to geology as well as smaller populations. Cleveland doesn’t have bedrock just [...]
Blossom is the Cleveland Orchestra’s equivalent to the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood: the weekend venue during the summer, when the Orchestra plays in an open-air pavilion and the audience sprawls out on the surrounding lawn with their picnics. I don’t think New York City actually has an equivalent: the Philharmonic’s parks concerts aren’t as frequent [...]
Here are the fireworks pics for Cleveland’s July 4th show.
The fireworks were shot from an area near the mouth of the Cuyohoga River, with the best viewing areas in the East Flats. Most spectators were camped out on the grassy slopes near the RTA station there, next to the vans from the radio station [...]
It’s been said that the formative years of Americans can be dated to their memories of Saturday Night Live eras. I’m pegged to the late ’80s/early ’90s, and, perhaps for that reason, Sting, despite all the albums before and since and all the pop trivia around him, is irrevocably associated in my mind with [...]