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Do a quick Google search for the definition of Visitor Experience. Go ahead. You won’t find one. Primarily because we, as institutions, define what the visitor experience is for ourselves. Therein lies one of the most fundamental struggles we all face...

About this time every year Kris and I jump in the car and head about 3 hours south to Columbus Ohio to get a little head start on Spring. You wouldn’t think there would be much of a difference 200 miles south of here, but there is! We head out of town...

Folks may remember from last summer (a year ago) that I had a bit of a dilemma deciding whether to renew my membership in the Ohio Historical Society. I’d been a member for 10 years, but they’d made a recent change. Here’s what I’d written before, but...

One of my favorite childhood memories is going to the Ohio Village. I remember visiting the hot, smoky blacksmith’s shop, smelling the rich tanned skins in the leather shop, and playing with wooden hoops and stilts. When the Ohio Village reopened...

Every summer we make a bucket list of places and things we would like to do. I ask each of the children to contribute to the list by stating their top 3 things they wish to do over summer break.  Our 4th, soon to be 5th grader, stated that she would...