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Traveling from Columbus, OH
Ohio has it’s perks for travel-lovers. It’s approximately halfway between Chicago and NY. Ohioans are within easy driving distance to places like Washington D.C., Toronto, Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, St. Louis, Nashville, Colombia and Memphis.
Living in Columbus, Ohio, smack dab in the middle of the state, means we are centrally-located enough to drive to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Kentucky and get back again in one day. That’s really pretty remarkable.
Day hikes from Columbus
My sister and I went on some of my favorite day hikes in Ohio. All of these hikes are less than an hour and a half from Columbus, and they offer some incredible views. Like most good Ohioans, I’ve been to Hocking Hills a number of times. I’m always amazed at how pretty it is. I travel far and wide for a good view, so being able to drive to a great viewpoint and get back home in one day is incredible.
Zoar Village
Lined up in a row, on top of a counter, are neat piles of coffee, sugar, flour and grain. Each pile contains enough food for every member of each family unit. At the end of the day, one member of each family would gather at the Assembly House and be awarded food for their family’s labors. Those ages 3-14 would spend the day in the community’s school. Everyone else was expected to meet once a week and find out what the family job would be; jobs were anything from threshing the wheat to baking the bread. These jobs were for the benefit of the entire society. No one was a lone island; everyone worked together, played together, lived together, ate together and worshipped together. They were part of one of the most successful communal settlements in American history. They were the Society of the Separatists of Zoar, aka “Zoarites”.
