Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
As a kid in the 1970s, my baseball team of choice was the Cincinnati Reds. This was the era of the Big Red Machine, winners of two World Series, with roster of future Hall of …
Tag: Cincinnati
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum
Doug likes a nice sculpture park, so we decided to pay a visit to Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum in Hamilton, Ohio (about 30 miles northwest of Cincinnati). For extra fun, we decided to …
American Sign Museum
We had a great time at the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. Even though it is home to “just” a bunch of signs, the museum is high energy and was fun to amble through. The …
Cincinnati Art Museum
The collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum didn’t align with our interests as much as some others, but it is home to a few paintings by some of our favorite artists, so it was well …
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
I always suffer moral pangs about zoos. I feel terrible for the animals who don’t have proper room to run and play. Zoos often come up as a “must do” in an area where we …
Amusements / Art / Food / US Presidents
Good Eats and Good Statues in Cincinnati
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 …
Architecture / Art / Museums
Immersing Ourselves in Art & Architecture in Cincinnati
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 …
Two Sites on the Fight Against Slavery in Cincinnati
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 …
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
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 …
Taft Museum of Art
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 …