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Columbus Days 2007 “Come Play in our Backyard “

By Maureen McCabe

Real Estate Agent with HER Realtors

September 26, 2007 05:59 AM

Columbus Ohio skyline

"Come Play in our Backyard " for Columbus Days 2007. Columbus Day (not a national holiday) is celebrated on Monday October 8, 2007 this year, but Columbus Ohio celebrates Experience Columbus Days all weekend.

"Columbus Ohio" is just one of many cities in the United States named after Christopher Columbus. Columbus Ohio is the biggest and best Columbus in the United States. It says so in Wikipedia!

Experience Columbus Days is the Columbus Day Weekend Celebration in the biggest and best city named after Christopher Columbus. There are special events and discounts at local entertainment venues including the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, COSI, Beulah Park Thoroughbred Racetrack, the Franklin Park Conservatory and more.

Experience Columbus Days means a lot of fun including:

Columbus Italian Festival in Italian Village

The North Market Harvest Festival

Herb Harvest Day (Saturday) in Gahanna

The Santa Maria on the riverfront in Columbus

A Columbus Day Gallery Hop in the Short North

There's special pricing available at museums, sporting events events, theaters...

Columbus Originals Restaurants, the list and discount flier - print out the discount flier!

Columbus Originals a group of Central Ohio Restaurants is offering discounts at some of our finest Central Ohio restaurants in Columbus neighborhoods like German Village, Victorian Village, the Brewery District, Clintonville, Northwest Columbus, the Arena District, The Short North and of course Downtown. Participating Columbus Originals restaurants are also in suburbs including; Bexley, Granville, Grandview, Dublin, Upper Arlington, Worthington.

Visit ColumbusBestBlog.com Experience Columbus Days for more details and links to websites for discounts, schedules, passwords for discounts and more.

Columbus is a nice place to visit and you really, really would want to live here....

This photo of the Columbus Ohio Skyline Photo above is from Wikipedia. "Skyline of Columbus, Ohio Photo shot by Derek Jensen (Tysto), 2006-01-23, Wikipedia says I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible:I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law." Thanks Derek

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Mary Warren

Las Vegas, NV

Didn't Columbus Day use to be a national holiday and they removed it and replaced it with MLK day? Or was that I dream I had?

Sep 26, 2007 06:14 AM

Maureen McCabe

HER Realtors - Columbus, OH

Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I am not sure if Columbus Day and Martin Luther King Day have anything to do with one another. I am not sure if Columbus Day was ever a national holiday, I don't remember it being one... I believe celebrating Columbus Day became unfashionable in the 70's... un P.C. I did a blog last year about some of the controversy about celebrating Columbus Day.

We had a Columbus Day parade in Columbus when I first moved here but we don't anymore. I know New York City has a big Columbus Day Parade. I kind of like the weekend events / discounts instead of a parade. It makes a lot of sense to celebrate the city to me.

Columbus Italian Festival has traditionally been this coming weekend but so is German Village's (a Columbus neighborhood) Oktoberfest. It makes more sense for the Columbus Italian Festival to be on the weekend of Columbus Days locally.

Sep 26, 2007 06:28 AM

Mary Pope-Handy

Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA

CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley

I have never been ANYWHERE in Ohio but if I ever manage to get close, I will definitely find my way to Columbus (and to meet you too!). Looks like a lot of fun. THanks for filling us in :-)

Mary

PS You mention moving there - where'd you come from??

Sep 27, 2007 03:50 PM

I moved here from Dayton and lived in Akron before that. I moved to Ohio from Wisconsin.

Sep 27, 2007 11:37 PM

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Clayton, MO

Hi Maureen! Great picture. I have never been to Ohio. :)

Sep 29, 2007 08:00 AM

It is a great photo thanks to Derek and Wikipedia for letting me use it. I read just within the past couple of days that Cinci and St. Louis have the same weather. That surprised me because I remember hearing how brutal St. Louis summers are. I don't think Cinci summers are that much worse than Columbus summers.

I have never been to MO. Thanks for the comment Pamela.

Sep 29, 2007 08:06 AM

Team Gagliardi Daytona Beach Real Estate

Re/Max Signature - Daytona Beach, FL

I always have remembered Columbus Day on Oct. 12th my sister's birthday. Sounds like Columbus, Ohio is going to have a great time the weekend of OCt. 8th. Let us know how much fun you had!

Oct 03, 2007 02:10 AM

I just noticed that I had not responded to the OJ people ( I think it is Janis ) comment. I can't remember what I did on Columbus Days this year! Yes I do. I went to Italian Festival at leasts one night... I think it was nice that the Italian Festival in Columbus was moved to the weekend of Columbus Day. I enjoyed it. I hope the Festival got more traffic, I am not sure if having things like the Gallery Hop at the same time would increase or decrease traffic. I had funny comments on both of my real blogs about the Italian Festival from someone trashing the Columbus Italian Festival for moving to that weekend because a band he enjoyed was not involved this year... I think he thought he was doing the band a favor spamming for them on Central Ohio sites. Oh well... There was great music at the Italian Festival this year. We may have done the Columbus Zoo that weekend too. Thanks for the comment Janis.

Dec 19, 2007 12:52 AM

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