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Published: August 23rd 2007
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Vermilion Replica Lighthouse
This was rebuilt based on the original 1847 wooden one. Some people will travel from the other side of the world to come see our country and we truly believe there is beauty everywhere, even a couple of hours from our home in Columbus.
It might not be as impressive as other areas but I see beauty when I walk through an Ohio state park and see the rolling hills below rows of matchstick tree trunks as far as the eye can see creating a quiet and cool canopy. I can picture the native americans enjoying the beauty and peace of this environment long before europeans came through and brought it under the plough. Things have been lost of considerable significance in places that are overlooked like Ohio.
Norwalk . . .
. . . founded in 1815, seat of Huron County, just over 16,000 residents, and its greatest claim to fame - home to the caged kids.
So Jennifer knew this place before I did, and we didn't know until we got there and she recognized places from when she had reported on the caged retarded kids from a nearby village and the going-ons at the county courthouse. Sadly the caged kids didn't bring the revitalization the
national media can sometimes bestow on a place. That said, Norwalk is still a great quiet town that is amazingly peaceful and picturesque, especially in the winter time. We love to stroll down to
Berry's Restaurant and enjoy some of Lake Erie's fried cod or just about anything else fried.
Victorian Lady Bed & Breakfast This is our favorite little place that we visited no long after it had opened for busines which helped make it even better. I discovered it on the internet and it was more appealing than the Four Diamond Georgian Manor (and after stopping by that place, was confirmed). It's a Victorian Queen Anne design in Norwalk's mansion row, owned by a couple, Tim and Vickie Dauch, who live in the third floor of the house and are very hospitable and because they are new to the trade a cautiously unobtrusive.
We stayed in the Graham Suite, named after the original owner who was a small pond railroad bridge contractor. The room is on the second floor and a small christmas tree was setup in the tower corner of the room.
I have read other bloggers say that they will hold back nice places that they find
Graham Suite
Hands-down the nicest suite in the house. for fear that they will get spoiled when others learn about it. I have also wondered on my own how much I should reveal, but in the end I believe that some places simply will not survive with time unless they are given the opportunity to make the money they justly deserve. If tourists don't come in and exercise their dollar votes properly, either a PR campaign will be mounted make them start doing so or some other industry will come in and do their thing, for that reason . . .
Mystery Park
I can't seem to find the name of this park anymore but it was north of Wakeman along the Vermilion River. A small little thing with some very well groomed trails through the woods and along the river. Because of the continuous snowfall and biting cold, the trail was slush free and the river was a torrent. Apart from the even snow cover, the ice and snow coated branches of the trees were beautiful and the gentle clinking of the the iced branches made it one of our favorite park visits.
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