This weekend!

At first I thought there was not a lot going on this weekend, but in addition to the usual concerts and farmers markets, there is:

Lancaster Festival

The 10th Annual Pickerington Violet Festival

Creativity Camp continues in Worthington  (ExperienceColumbus.com has details)

King Lincoln District Summerfair (ExperienceColumbus.com has details)

The 14th Annual Lazy Daze of Summer Festival - (Saturday only - Grandview Heights ExperienceColumbus.com has details)

Westerville's Fourth Friday July Jubilee 

New Event Saturday Evening German Village Art Crawl

Blast From the Past Cruise-In Downtown Delaware (ExperienceColumbus.com has details)

Grandview Art Hop  Saturday only

There's also a Clipppers Game, an event for Arena Football (watching on a big screen)... a motor cycle event vintage mortorcycles?, Shakespeare in the Park....

Additional info on all Central Ohio events - Experience Columbus

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Summer in Columbus is Actors' Theatre in Schiller Park for me.  A blanket, chairs, a cooler of food, my dog often joins us..... for some outdoor theater in German Village. 

According to the Columbus Dispatch this season Actors Theatre Season:

" Performances: 8 p.m. May 18-Sept. 2. Mary Stuart, May 24-27 and June 7-10 and 14-17, co-produced with Ohio State University theater department; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), May 31-June 3, June 21-July 8; King Lear, July 12-Aug. 5; The Taming of the Shrew, Aug. 9-Sept. 2."

Above schedule is in a Columbus Dispatch article about outdoor theater, "Outdoor dramas: Fans come back for more"  Also Tecumseh!, Blue Jacket and other Ohio outdoor theater oppportunities... 

Actors' Theatre performs at Schiller Park in German Village.

 Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Wikipedia says of the ethnic history of the city of Columbus:

  "A wave of immigrants from Europe resulted in the establishment of two ethnic enclaves on the outskirts of the city. A significant Irish population settled in the north along Naghten Street (presently Nationwide Boulevard), while the Germans took advantage of the cheap land to the south, creating a community that came to be known as Die Alte Sud Ende (The Old South End). Columbus' German population is responsible for constructing numerous breweries, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Capital University, and for instituting the first kindergarten in the United States.^"

The Irish population is responsible for???  There almost ought to be an Irish joke there... 

German Village is a gem in the city.

Flytown is long gone....  

There's info on the local St. Patrick's Day celebration on Columbus Best Blog.

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

The cartoon is from Wikipedia and is in the public domain.

 Sausage links....  Italian sausage or bratwurst?  Italian Festival or German Village Oktoberfest.. there are lots of entertainment choices in Central Ohio this weekend including Italian Festival and Oktoberfest. 

 "SIMPLY ITALIAN" 

Italian Festival is at  St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church, 720 Hamlet Street in  Columbus, Ohio. 

German Village Oktoberfest in German Village

Also The Food and Wine Affair

 and

Fall Fun Days Harvest Festival in Grove City

There is more going on this weekend in Central Ohio, visit ExperienceColumbus.com

c. 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe