Odds and Ends Summer Wine Overview

To do something different and to acknowledge that summer (July 4th) has arrived, I have put together some wine sources (book and not book) for tourism, shopping, business, and general knowledge.  Returning readers may know that I looked at Roger Gentile’s Discovering Ohio Wines, which looked at all of these aspects of the grape industry from [...]

Sandusky

Ashar, Linda C. Sandusky: A Guide to Ohio’s North Coast Playground.  New York; Channel Lake, 2010. I was initially surprised to see a nationally published guide for Sandusky published by the Tourist Town Guides series.  Does Sandusky, Ohio deserve to be canonized along Atlantic City, Myrtle Beach, and Niagara Falls?  Probably not.  But if you [...]

The Great Ohio Roundabout

Traylor, Jeff and Nadine Disabato.  The Great Ohio Roundabout: A Circle Tour of Ohio Towns and Country Along Scenic and Historic Highways.  Monroeville, Ohio: King of the Road Press, 1998. Here is a slightly older travel guide of Ohio that outlines a suggested motoring trip around Ohio.  The authors break their trip around Ohio into [...]

Building Ohio

Ware, Jane. Building Ohio: A Traveler’s Guide to Ohio’s Rural Architecture. Wilmington, Ohio; Orange Frazer Press, 2002. I have a rule of thumb about towns in Ohio. If the municipality had 10,000 residents in 1950, there will be a few amazing streets of Victorian houses near the town square. I call it the “10,000 Residents [...]

A History and Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway in Ohio

Buettner, Michael G. A History and Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway in Ohio.  Fourth Edition.  Lima, Ohio; [M.G. Buettner], 1998. I came across this guide when searching for National Road/ U.S. 40 books related to Ohio [more on this in some future posting] in the CLEVNET catalog.  The joys of subject searches. Originally conceived [...]

The Ohio Guide

Federal Writers’ Project. The Ohio Guide. New York; Oxford University Press, 1940 (1946 printing). There is a good chance that your local library may have The Ohio Guide, which was compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and originally published in 1940. This book is part of the American Guide [...]

Moon Cleveland

Trattner, Douglas. Moon Cleveland. Berkeley, California; Avalon Travel, 2009. The Moon Handbook for Cleveland is somewhat of a landmark. That being, I am not familiar with any other national publisher who had designated Cleveland with its own travel guide. The other major Ohio cities (Cincinnati and Columbus) have received at least minimal coverage for book-buying [...]