The August issue of the Ohio based PRIZM magazine includes a special section about LGBTQ Cleveland. The article focuses on LGBTQ owned, small businesses in our great city. Tours of Cleveland, LLC is one of those featured businesses! You may remember last month, author and editor of PRIZM magazine, Ken Schneck joined us on our […]
Today I wanted to highlight something outside the Cleveland area before it leaves Ohio. It is down in Columbus at COSI – the Jim Henson: Imagination Unlimited exhibition. COSI is the science center in downtown Columbus. They have a planetarium, a huge dinosaur gallery and tons of hands on exhibits and special exhibits such as […]
Every once in a while we venture outside our great city to look at some of the other cool things Ohio has to offer. Today, we take a trip down to Akron to visit Stan Hywet Hall. This was the home of F.A. and Gertrude Seiberling. F.A. and his brother, C.W. Seiberling were the founders […]
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a mission “to inspire, through science and education, a passion for nature, the protection of natural diversity, the fostering of health and leadership to a sustainable future”. The Museum traces its roots back to a simple wooden structure on Public Square from 1830s. It was full of mounted […]
“Love Letter to Cleveland” is a 58 foot mural drawn by Gary Dumm and colored by his wife, Laura Dumm. The mural had originally been installed the side of the Orange Blossom Press building in Ohio City, near the West Side Market back in 2013. But several years of Cleveland’s winters got to it and […]
On our Downtown Highlights walking tour of Cleveland we visit the mall (the green space not a shopping mall) and talk about the buildings that surround it, like the Cleveland Public Library and the old Board of Education building. We also talk about the Group Plan of 1903, which basically created most of what we […]
Join us on Sunday, August 25 2019 as we partner with ZENworks Yoga for a yoga + Cleveland history tour event! We will offer an abbreviated version of our popular Downtown Highlights walking tour, followed by our all-levels yoga class! The walking tour will concentrate on Public Square and the buildings on the Square and […]
Today we wrap up our series on Lake View Cemetery with a look at the James A. Garfield Memorial. Garfield was the 20th President of the Untied States. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1831. He represented Ohio in the House for nine terms. His term as President was only four months long, […]
We having been looking at Lake View Cemetery over the past couple weeks. Today we look at a collection of some of the famous Clevelanders buried at the cemetery. John D. Rockefeller – Rockefeller was of course the founder of Standard Oil, the largest corporation on the planet and the richest man on the planet […]
One of the more famous graves in Lake View Cemetery is the Haserot Angel, actually named “The Angel of Death Victorious.” The life-size bronze angel holds an extinguished torch upside-down. Her wings are outstretched and she gazes straight ahead as she sits over the graves of Francis Henry Haserot and family. The Haseort Angel’s most […]
