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Why do we celebrate Columbus Day in Columbus Ohio?

This was originally posted on Discover Columbus (a different blog) back in 2006... but it's name back then was Columbus Best Blog.

Why do we celebrate Columbus Day in Columbus? Because it is Columbus Day.  Because we are the biggest and best Columbus in the US,  Wikipedia says so.  Because until the state of Ohio changes the name of the state capital to something politically correct and oh so catchy like "Indigenous Resistance" we will remain Columbus Ohio.

We are just one of many US cities named Columbus after Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer... who sailed the ocean blue back in 1492... for the Spanish.  I saw an Ohio blog that called Christopher Columbus a "genocist."  I can not find genocist in an English dictionary or a Spanish dictionary... one online dictionary says:

"The spanish word 'genocist' was not found, have you entered the accents correctly?  If you think 'genocist' should be in our dictionary please contact us, and we'll try to add it."

I probably don't have the correct accent.  I don't think of Columbus being controversial  until a few days before Columbus Day each year.Instead of Columbus Day, some people prefer to celebrate "Day of Indigenous Resistance."  In Latin America some celebrate "Day of the Race" which if I am not mistaken is a celebration of the Spanish heritage. I think I always thought it was a celebration of the indigenous races.

A New York blogger, 'Brendan's Mommy' shares young Brendan's take on why to celebrate Columubus Day  on her blog:

"We celebrate Columbus Day because a man named Christopher Columbus sailed 3 ships - to Ohio to go to the capital. And the ships are called the Nina, the Panda and Santa Maria. "

According to Wikipedia:  "Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of Italian-American heritage."

Happy Columbus Day or whatever you celebrate... 

Ways to celebrate Columbus Ohio in 2009 include:

Experience Columbus Days -  through October 12*

50% off Central Ohio events like The Santa Maria, The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, COSI and more

The Columbus Italian Festival October 9, 10, 11 2009

Columbus Calendar of Events - October 2009

* There is no Columbus Day Parade in Columbus Ohio on Columbus Day....  if you need a parade this weekend there is a parade on Sunday afternoon at the Columbus Italian Festival!!!!!!

2:00 - 2:45 Columbus Italian Parade (Hamlet & 1st Streets)

Photo Credit 

The photo of the Santa Maria against the Columbus Ohio sky  -  tlarroww owner shared the photo with a Creative Commons license which allows commercial use.

Maureen McCabe - Trick or Treat 2009 in Central Ohio

I hate writing events posts and I was putting off going looking for Trick or Treat for Columbus, Dublin, Grandview Heights, Gahanna, Hilliard,  Lewis Center, Powell, Upper Arlingto, Westerville and Worthington.

Procrastinate long enough and you can just link to a site like Columbus Parent's Magazine's Kids Linked who has the list of Columbus area Trick or Treat times!

Kids Linked - Trick or Treat 2009  and more

Trick or Treat 2009 in Central Ohio

You really only care about the Beggars Night date for where you live don't you?  Mostly?  Most of the suburbs I really care about Dublin,  Gahanna, Hilliard, New Albany, Powell,  Upper Arlington, and  Worthington are having Beggars Night (Trick or Treat) on Thursday October 29, 2009.  City of Columbus is Thursday October 29, 2009. 

Grandview Heights and Westerville have their Beggars Night (Trick or Treat ) on Saturday October 31, 2009, Halloween!

Trick or Treat 2009 - the mystery of Lewis Center

Lewis Center area? Lewis Center is not on the Kids Linked list but lots of further out areas are.  Lewis Center is not a city... EDIT Wrong I would bet Lewis Center  has Trick or Treat in the Orange Township area on Thursday October 29, 2009 like Powell, Worthington  the nearby suburbs... but Lewis Center is near Westerville which has a Saturday Beggars Night and Galena and Sunbury's Beggars Night are Saturday...

The Orange Township website shows - the Orange Township Trick or Treat is Halloween, Sunday EDIT Saturday October 31!

Trick or Treat 2009 in Central Ohio - outlying communities

I wrote "Most of the suburbs I really care about" it's not that I don't care about further out... and Columbus Kids Linked has the scoop on further out and parts of Central Ohio.

Really visit the Kid's Linked site... they have links to many of the community websites on their  local Halloween  calendar, you will want to double check for your kids...  I went to double and triple check Westerville. 

The Kids Linked list also has pumpkin shows, corn mazes, haunted houses, haunted train rides...

EDIT - Channel 10 TV list of Trick or Treat 2009 - more outlying towns

More Central Ohio Events

Central Ohio Event October 2009 Calendar

Columbus SCAR-A-TORIUM  a NEW Columbus Haunted House

Maureen McCabe - The Columbus SCARE-A-TORIUM is on the corner of 161 and Karl Rd. in the former Big Bear Store,  A new "haunted house." 

The address is 1501 E Dublin Granville Road, Columbus, OH 43229

The web site makes noise...  not sure you'd call it music but there is sound so be prepared:

Columbus SCARE-A-TORIUM

Do  you like haunted houses?  I am trying to decide between Sunday 5 to 7 with th lights on or Sunday 7 to 9 Family Lite Fright , Call me a scaredy cat!

From the SCARE-A-TORIUM site

Q. "If I chicken out, will I get my money back?
A. Unfortunately we cannot refund any tickets."

I found out about the SCARE-A-TORIUM via Twitter.  @SCARATORIUM

Central Ohio Calendar of Events - October 2009

Oct 3  Fido Fest -Worthington Square Shopping Center - back parking lot

Oct 4  Worthington Fire Station Open House

Oct 4   Super Sunday Open House Affordable Housing throughout Central Ohio (priced under $125,000)

Oct 10  Olde Worthington Business Association Fall Festival

Oct 9 to 11  Columbus Italian Festival

Oct 9 to 12 Experience Columbus Days

Octr 29  Worthington Trick or Treat 6:00 to 8:00pm

Check the Experience Columbus Calendar of Events for more about Boo at the Zoo,  Haunted Statehouse Tours, The Haunted Ship (the Santa Maria),  HighBall Halloween in the Short North and a  Halloween Pet Parade at Easton.

Worthington Events Calendar  with links to Worthington Library and Worthington School calendars

Visit Experience Columbus for more  details about these events and others

OSU Bukeye Football 5 October football games in 2009! One each of those Saturdays

Columbus Crew

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium events including  Dine with Diego (Who is Diego?),  Colo's Classic Car (what a gorilla!) and of course Boo at the Zoo of course.

COSI events

Columbus Landmarks Foundation -  2009 Village Walking Tour Series continues through October with more village tours,  Village of Riverlea, “Ohio Village,"  and Greenlawn Cemetery, a village for after.

Columbus Metro Parks October is always a fabulous month for walks in the parks.

The picture on the calendar is High Banks Metro Park just north of Worthington in October 2008.  We are supposed to have a more colorful fall this year!

by Maureen McCabe  It's a poll about what is YOUR favorite Columbus Event this time of year. 

WaterFire, the Greek Festival, Native American Traditional Pow Wow, Gallery Hop, Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival, Patriot Day Ceremony, Taste the Future, Riverfront Arts Festival, Old Worthington Market Day Festival, Delaware County Fair, the Grandview Hop, Talk like a Pirate weekend, German Village Oktoberfest at the Ohio Expo Center, OSU football... Other?

Need a refresher of what to expect:  Columbus Calendar of Events - September 2009

Columbus Countdown to OSU Buckeye football season

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

Maureen McCabe   Central Ohio Calendar of Events -  September 2009

4 -  BalletMet and WaterFire  Genoa Park, downtown riverfront along Washington Blvd

4 to 7 -  Greek Festival The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral Presents

5 to 7 - Native American Traditional Pow Wow Hilliard
 
5 -   Gallery Hop in the Short North

7 -  Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival Northam Park

11 - Patriot Day Ceremony at Noon on the Worthington Village Green

15 - Taste the Future - Columbus State Community College

16 - Ohio Statehouse -  Commemorating Lincoln's first visit to Ohio Statehouse September 16, 1859

18 to 20  Country Living Fair Ohio Historical Center/Ohio Village 1982 Velma Ave., Columbus, 43211

18 to 20 - Riverfront Arts Festival Genoa Park

19 - Old Worthington Market Day Festival

19 - Waterfire,  Gena Park in partnership with Riverfront Art Festival; performance by Opera Columbus

19 - Independents Day - Downtown Columbus - EDIT

19 -  Talk like  a Pirate Day - Celebrate at the Santa Maria on the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus EDIT

19 to 26   Delaware County Fair Delaware County Fairgrounds  236 Pennsylvania Ave, Delaware, 43015

26  -  The Grandview Hop

26 to 27 - Talk like a Pirate weekend, Santa Maria 25 Marconi Blvd, Columbus EDIT

25 to 27   German Village Oktoberfest  at the Ohio Expo Center  thanks to Schmidts!

Central Ohio Calendar of events  throughout September 2009 also include:

Worthington Community Calendar  - September 2009

OSU Bukeye Football

Columbus Clippers Schedule Season Ends Sunday September 6

Columbus Crew

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium events including Jack Hanna's Fall Fest

COSI events including the Egypt in Columbus Exhibit only through September 7

Columbus Landmarks Foundation -  2009 Village Walking Tour Series continues do you know where "Babyland" is?

Columbus Metro Parks

Visit Experience Columbus for more  details about these events and others

Calendar photo taken September 11, 2008.

EDIT - check Experience Columbus for all events

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

Columbus is a football town.... or football city, really.

I was talking to a friend who manages a "restaurant" in the campus area who is counting down the days to the first football game at Ohio State.

Saturday, September 5th, 2009  Navy is in Columbus to play the Ohio State Buckeyes....

The USC game is the following week.  The Columbus Dispatch had a front page article Saturday that tickets for that game are going for as high as $4800? 

The official schedule - Ohio State Football Schedule 2009

OSU

Columbus where the guys are

Columbus College Hunks

Buckeyes VS. Badgers 2008

Countdown to OSU Buckeye 2008 Season

Buckeyes VS.  Badgers 2007

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER - Worthington

The image is a Real Living HER ecard.

Dublin Irish Festival - Dublin Ohio - July 31 to August 2

The Ohio State Fair  - July 29 to August 9

Gallery Hop - Short North - August1

OSU Day at the Zoo -  August 9

Festival Latino  - August 15 to 16

Sabor de Columbus August 20 Columbus Zoo

Pelontonia Tour - August 28 to  30 (starts at OSU round trip to Athens and back, bike Tour)

Via Colori   Ohio Histortical Center  - August 29 to 30

Grange Insurance Audubon Center Grand Opening Weekend - August 28 to 30

Grange Insurance Audobon Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 10 AM Friday August 28, 2009

Central Ohio Events throughout the Month of August 2009 include:

Actors' Theatre Company

• The Tempest through August 2
• As You Like It starts August 7
  

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium events including OSU Day, Sabor Columbus and more

COSI events including the Egypt in Columbus Exhibit (through September 7)

Columbus Clippers Schedule 

Columbus Landmarks Foundation -  2009 Village Walking Tour Series Continues in August with

• "Villages" of Milo & Grogan
• Merion Village
• Village of Marble Cliff
• Village of Old Arlington
• “Village" of Bronzeville is SOLD OUT
• “Village" of Westgate on the Hilltop
  

Columbus Metro Parks

Columbus Symphony - Picnic with the Pops last Concert August 1, 2009 OSU Marching Band

For more detail and additional events visit Experience Columbus' Calendar of Events

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

Will I see you at Red, White & Boom... probably not even if you go huh? We may go down early this year... we used to go to Front Street but we have been on Spring St. near North Bank Park looking at the Columbus skyline the past couple of years.

What's on your agenda for this weekend? 

Red, White & Boom on Friday?

A parade on Saturday?  Dublin? Gahanna? Hilliard? Upper Arlington? Westerville? Or the Doo Dah Parade in the Short North?

Need help finding fireworks near by for your family?   Also has celebrations, festivals, and parades listed... except my favorite parade, which is not really for kids:

Fireworks throughout Central Ohio - KidsLink.com "Find out when and where your Community Celebrates the 4th of July"

Red, White & Boom 2008

Red, White & Boom 2007

Columbus Calendar of Events for June 2009

Columbus and Central Ohio have a pretty Jazzy July coming up....

July 1 -Try to find a friend at the Condo at  Northbank Park Day - for the view for Red, White & Boom

July 3 -  Red, White & Boom - Downtown

July 4 -The Doo Dah Parade -  Short North and Victorian Village

The Upper Arlington Parade and Celebration The theme: "UA...There's No Place Like Home"  Grand Marshall Cameron Mitchell

Worthington Family Picnic - Worthington Calendar of Events

COSI Spider Man Appearance

Fireworks throughout Central Ohio - from KidsLink.com "Find out when and where your Community Celebrates the 4th of July" 

Gallery Hop - Short North

July 5 -  Worthington Ice Cream Social  and Music - Worthington Calendar  - The Village Green

July 11-26 - BIA Parade of Homes 2009 - Tartan Ridge in Dublin

July 13  to July 17 - Restaurant Week Columbus  Throughout Columbus

July 17 - Wex Drive-In: American Graffiti

July 18 to  July 25 -  Franklin County Fair Franklin County Fairgrounds - "The Best Family Fare Ever"

July 24 - JazZoo: Jazz Party at the Zoo

July 24 to July 26 - Jazz & Rib Fest   Arena District/North Bank Park

July 25 - LaNavidad Christmas at the Santa Maria

July 25 - The Grandview Hop

July 26 - Downtown Powell Street Market

July 29 to August 9 - Ohio State Fair Ohio Expo Center

July 31- Motown JazZoo: Memories at the Zoo

July 31 to August 2 - Dublin Irish Festival

Central Ohio Events throughout the Month of July 2009

July 2 to August 2-   Actors' Theatre Company: The Tempest

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium events including JazZoo

COSI events including Spiderman on July 4th, the Egypt in Columbus Exhibit (through September 7)

Columbus Clippers Schedule  I think I am going finally in July....

Columbus Landmarks Foundation -  2009 Village Walking Tour Series Continues

Columbus Metro Parks

Columbus Symphony - Picnic with the Pops and Popcorn Pops

For more detail and additional events visit Experience Columbus' Calendar of Events