Today, March 3, 2003, marks the State of Ohio’s 200th Birthday. Happy Birthday!

I lived in Ohio during the formative years of my life – elementary school and high school – roughly from 1985 to 1997. In 1997 I came up to the Boston area to attend Gordon College, and I officially became a Massachusetts resident in January of 2002. My sister and her husband moved from Ohio to Kentucky, and currently reside there – so now it is just my parents living in Mount Vernon.

In honor of my old Ohio home, I’ll share some Ohio-related links here:

Ohio Bicentennial Celebration
Mount Vernon, Ohio Official Homepage
Mount Vernon City School District — in which my mother teaches, at Dan Emmett Elementary.
East Elementary School — where I spent 1st through 5th grades
Mount Vernon Middle School — where I would have spent 6th through 8th grades if I was several years younger. Instead, I spent that time at the old middle school, which you will not see at the aforementioned site
Mount Vernon High School — where I spent 9th through 12th grades
Mount Vernon Nazarene University — formerly Mount Vernon Nazarene College, my father is a music professor here
Kenyon College — small liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, through which I took some college classes during high school
The Ohio State University — Ohio’s largest university chain, and one of the nation’s largest. Home of the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Ohio State Marching Band (TBDBITL)
Columbus City Center — cool shopping center in Columbus
Cedar Point — amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, the roller coaster capital of the world

Enjoy!