Collecting My Thoughts

1.  I wore my new Christmas sweater 2. in a cheery royal blue 3. to a Conestoga Party 4. at a lovely venue I've never been to 5. with a ...

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, traveling to Ted Lewis Museum, Green Lawn Abbey and Orange Johnson House Museum As part of Conestoga’s focus this...

Conestoga is the "Friends" group of the Ohio History Center, and we do interesting tours within the state, and  also do a Spring f...

We had a great trip to Fort Ancient Earthworks and Nature Preserve to see the 2,000 year old, human-built earthen walls in the Little Miami ...

Today our Conestoga group toured the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a visit with the CEO Greg Harris, ate in the new lunch area, ...

Our Conestoga group supports the Ohio History Connection, and this year we took an all day bus trip on May 18 to Ripley, Ohio, to visit the ...

Spending time with old friends is one of the joys of retirement and my age. However, meeting new people and hearing their stories is fun to...

Yesterday our Conestoga group (friends organization for the Ohio History Connection) met at the Ohio Historical Society, got on a bus and en...

We had a great time on our bus tour of Columbus today. The Columbus Historical Society offers this tour and can make special arrangements fo...

  Today I visited Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, with the Conestoga group. Many famous people await the resurrection here, many ...

I have never tasted beer. Not once. The smell puts me off. But yesterday our Conestoga (Ohio history) group attended a fascinating lecture o...

We had a wonderful trip to Parkersburg, WV yesterday with our Conestoga group to visit the Blennerhasset Island and Museum. Conestoga is a ...

And then after that breath taking show , our Conestoga group went to the new Hilton, had a fabulous lunch in the  Gallerie Bar & Bistro,...

We're members of Conestoga--a friends group to support the Ohio Historical Society. It seems to me that if you don't grow up in a st...

Christmas  these days seems to begin around Halloween when Christmas themed merchandise appears in the stores, although for some retailers...

Hope to have some good photos to post when I get back, but it is very gray and rainy. Conestoga is a great group which supports the Ohio Hi...

After lunch in the cafeteria we attended the IMAX showing of "Fighter pilot, operation red flag" about the final training of a yo...

There's no way to describe how BIG the museum at Wright Patterson is; but here's an idea--there's an early years of air flight g...

On Wednesday, April 21, our Conestoga group (an organization that supports the Ohio Historical Society) toured the National Museum of the Un...

Soiree. Doesn't that sound classy? Well, it was a lovely event, and I learned a lot of history. Conestoga is sort of a "friends...