Posted in Northeastern Ohio

Punderson Manor Lodge & Conference Center

In May we stayed at Punderson Manor - an English Tudor style lodge located Punderson State Park. The lodge was comfortable and convenient to a variety of natural venues. Oh yes, and it is reputed to be haunted by a dozen ghosts. Haunted Punderson For those living outside Ohio, the following chart is a simple decision tree for determining if a given locale is haunted. Punderson Manor is located next to Punderson Lake - a natural glacial kettle lake that is unusually deep. Read more ➜
Posted in Past events

2013 Jack Hanna’s Pumpkin Carving Competition

We happened to be at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for the final day of a three-day pumpkin carving contest (it was held Sept. 20-22). On this last day the competitors were asked to carve a single, large, freestyle pumpkin. We enjoyed seeing the carvers at work and looking at pumpkins that were carved earlier in the contest, and it seemed like a nice topic to start of the month of October. Since the contest was being held at a zoo, many of the carvings explored the zoo and aquarium theme. In Read more ➜