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Columbus Day... I love a parade

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Real Estate Agent with HER Realtors

There is no Columbus Day Parade in Columbus Ohio.  There has not been a Columbus Day Parade in Columbus in years.*

Instead there is Experience Columbus Days... we can play in our own backyard... visitors can come play in our backyard... thanks to Experience Columbus, you can visit popular Columbus venues at discounted prices. Experience Columbus Days  - Come Play in our  Backyard Experience Columbus Days runs Friday through Monday.

If you need a parade to make your Columbus Day weekend complete there is a Parade on Sunday afternoon for the Columbus Italian Festival (Columbus was Italian....)  2:00 P.M. 

If you need to do something downtown on Columbus Day....

Go to the Columbus Day Wreath Laying Ceremony - the 53rd annual at the Columbus statue at City Hall.

Visit the Santa Maria on the Scioto River

Last year on ColumbusBestBlog.com on Columbus Day I posted "Happy Columbus Day"  and got a comment.

"I am here from NYC and there there is a huge parade this is the largest city in America named for Columbus where’s the beef!?  no celebration? no festivities ? nothing in the Dispatch?”

No whining about there NOT being a Columbus Day Parade... no matter what city you are from or how big your cities Columbus Day Parade is.

.* Who works in downtown Columbus? City Employees.... Franklin County Employees.  State Employees...  even Federal Employees... Columbus Day is a federal holiday many have the day off...they are not downtown because it is  Columbus Day.

 

 

 

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Comments (4)

Teresa Berry
Seattle, WA

Maureen, your blog is really a pleasant place here is these days

Visited your ColumbusBestBlog also and am impressed with EVERYTHING Columbus Ohio, you've included VERY NICE! - in a word, Expert!

Sorry I can't help with the parade but the comment from the NYC visitor last year was great, maybe worth forwarding to one of the city officials when they're back from holiday :)

....I would be totally fine with a trip to the Columbus Italian festival - thinking of it made me hungry so I guess that's my cue it's time for dinner :)

Oct 09, 2008 03:20 PM
Steve Shatsky
Dallas, TX

Hi Maureen... isn't every day like a parade when you live in Columbus, Ohio? :)

Oct 09, 2008 03:32 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Thanks for the comments.  A guy with one of the local newspapers (not the Dispatch) used to whine in comments on ColumbusBestBlog.com about why Columbus did not have parades... Holidays he complained about?  Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year... great holidays but probably not a lot of people in Central Ohio celebrate either....

My favorite local parades are the Doo Dah Parade in the Short North and the Worthington Memorial Day Parade.

Oct 09, 2008 10:41 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

ooooh my goodness and the St. Patrick's Day Parades in Columbus and Dublin!!!  How could I forget those?

Oct 09, 2008 10:45 PM