The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Behold the Buckeye! When William Henry Harrison successfully ran for president, his campaign created souvenirs carved out of Ohio’s state tree, the buckeye. Since that time, Ohio residents have been called “buckeyes,” though it seems …
Cincinnati Museum Center The Cincinnati Museum Center was of interest to us more for the building than for the museums located within it. But since it was free with our museum membership, we still took …
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House The Harriet Beecher Stowe House was not the most visually exciting of our stops, especially since they had just refinished the inside but were still waiting for the furniture to …
Woo-hoo, we checked another Presidential site off Doug’s list with a visit to the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio! Though the site is named after our 27th president (and 10th chief …
We visited the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio on a hunch. We weren’t sure there was anything there that would particularly interest us, but something about it said we should do it, so …
Doug was traveling, so of course –– of course –– when I found myself alone I went to see some flowers. Krohn Conservatory is located in Eden Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Art Deco style …
Covington sits just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the other side of the Ohio River, and is considered to be part of the “Greater Cincinnati Area.” It did feel like one big city as we …
We ventured outside the Indianapolis city limits to explore a few sites, as we like to do. Celery Bog Nature Area Let’s just jump in with the most exciting thing that happened to us on …
Sure, everyone’s heard of Columbus, Ohio – but Indiana? Never knew it existed. But it came up on my radar for the wonderful Miller House, so we wound up spending a night there. It turned …
We were both absolutely delighted with the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. It was commissioned in 1953 by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Mille. They hired Eero Saarinen to …
