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The Barn Artist continues bringing color to Ohio

You can’t look at Ohio barns without seeing the work of Scott Hagan, The Barn Artist. Hagan, of Jerusalem, Ohio, painted Ohio Bicentennial barns in all 88 counties for 2003 and has hand-painted unique, colorful designs on dozens of other barns in Ohio and other states.

Fairfield County’s Baltimore is growing quietly

Baltimore, Ohio, located in Fairfield County about halfway between Buckeye Lake and Lancaster, is one of those quiet, peaceful, nondescript towns that is a good place to raise a family but otherwise seems pretty common.

Try this great Ohio ice cream trail

Looking for great ice cream from family-owned businesses and don’t know where to start? Try this “ice cream trail” in central and east-central Ohio.

Ohio’s jewels of nature, wildlife areas along Lake Erie

Old Woman Creek State Nature Preserve is one of the most unique natural areas in Ohio. (Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources) By Ken Drenten Arranged like a string of pearls across Ohio’s Lake Erie coastline are some of the state’s most diverse wildlife and nature preserves. These wildlife areas and state nature preserves contain…

Southern Theatre shows its age well

The Southern Theatre at 21 S. High St. in downtown Columbus is the oldest surviving theatre in central Ohio and one of the oldest in the state.

Dusty’s Short Stories – short fictional stories written by Ken Drenten

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