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Need some account on what to do in our region? Retiree Liz Allen has a brazier account for the year, and you are affirmed to adulation it.
["485"]Lazy Hill Farm Designs Loretta Birdhouse | Birdhouse, Bird feeder ... | Lazy Hill Farm Designs Lazy Hill Bird HouseWhen Basin Erie LifeStyle Editor Pam Parker asked me to abridge a “bucket list” for 2017, I bound agreed. I admired the abstraction of creating a agenda with contest on specific dates and with suggestions about things to analyze at your leisure.
To aggregate ideas, I consulted assorted calendars, including those in Showcase, this anniversary and at visiteriepa.com and erieevents.com. I additionally did a brainy browse of my admired haunts and dreamed up excursions I’d like to try, analytic for affordable, family-friendly ideas.
Because the Erie arena offers so abundant to do year-round, my account is not exhaustive, and I skipped lots of abiding favorites, including concerts and festivals, because you’ll apprehend lots about them in the advancing months.
If you adopt to map out your own itineraries, stop at the Intermodal Busline Center, 208 E. Bayfront Parkway, and grab an armful of brochures for bounded attractions. You can additionally download the “Hello Erie” app from VisitErie to be a day-tripper in your own backyard.
While you're at the Erie bayfront, bead into the Ancestry Room at adjacent Blasco Library, breadth you will acquisition abundance of books, files and directories to annoyance your absorption in bounded history, because it’s astute to apperceive breadth you’ve appear from afore venturing into new breadth (the library additionally has a babyish accumulating of acclaimed artwork).
And if you are aggressive to accept your own adventure, allotment it with the hashtag #eriebucketlist. We’d adulation to apperceive breadth you’re headed in 2017!
February is for ...
... Watching flicks
Before the Feb. 26 Academy Awards air on ABC, I appetite to booty in some movies at an another breadth to Tinseltown. The options include:
The Erie Art Museum, E. Fifth and French streets, breadth the Film Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania will present “Don’t Anticipate Twice,” a dramedy about an ad-lib troupe, on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. Acceptance is $5. Appointment www.erieartmuseum.org to apprentice more.
The Erie Cine House, 3424 West Basin Road. The proprietors hadn’t appear their February screenings at columnist time, but they affiance that cine assemblage will acquisition “a cornball vibe with lots of awakening amateur and a adequate atmosphere,” forth with bargain acceptance and popcorn.
The Big Green Theatre at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive, is currently assuming “Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet,” “Lewis & Clark: Abundant Journey West,” and “Journey to Space.” Tickets are $7.50 for adults and $6 for seniors (65 or older). Appointment www.trecpi.org for appearance times and added acceptance prices.
... Digging history
February is Black History Month, a acceptable time to apprentice about how schools in Pennsylvania were desegregated back Elias Allen sued Crawford County in 1881 afterwards his son was assigned to an all-black academy in Meadville. Read about his cloister case and the acknowledgment by the Pennsylvania Legislature at www.explorepahistory.com and appointment the actual brand acquainted the case on South Main Artery in Meadville, abreast the Second District School.
... Authoritative connections
Movers and shakers are auspicious Erie association to become entrepreneurs. Although I don’t absolutely fit that category, alive from home as a contributor can be isolating. February sounds like the absolute ages to barrage myself out of the abode and into an office, admitting a acting one, at Radius CoWorks in the Renaissance Centre, 1001 Accompaniment Street, breadth a circadian canyon is $15. Apprentice added at http://radiusco.work/ or on Facebook.
... Activity into stitches
I’m not adroit abundant to booty up knitting, crocheting or quilting, but I’d like to besom up on my bed-making abilities at Studio Z bed-making classes, which I abstruse about on the Greater Kahkwa nextdoor.com adjacency arrangement site. “Grab three or added friends, adjudge on a date and we will actualize a clandestine chic for your group,” says Sue Zimmerman of www.StudioZErie.com. “Make it a ‘girls night out’ with BYO candy and beverages. It’s fun!” Cost is $35 to $40 per class.
March is for ...
... Getting your Irish on
Erie never lacks for ball on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day.
But for a alluring assignment on Irish history, accede a cruise to Crossingville in Crawford County, breadth St. Philip Church, 25797 Accompaniment Highway 98, was completed in 1847 to serve Irish immigrants architectonics the Erie Extension Canal. At St. James Cemetery, you can acquisition the cairn for Fred McCarthy, who played Tonto on the radio adaptation of “The Lone Ranger," beneath the date name John Todd. All of this advice comes from “The Rise and Abatement of the Erie Extension Canal,” by David Frew and Jerry Skrypzak. Published by the Jefferson Educational Society, their book includes “The Canal Lover’s Brazier List,” including the authors’ “Route 18 Pilgrimage” from Girard to Beaver. Appointment www.jeserie.org to buy the book.
… Celebrating women
March is Women’s History Month, and notable women affiliated to our arena accommodate Ida Tarbell, the muckraking journalist, and Florence Ellinwood Allen, the aboriginal woman to be appointed to a accompaniment absolute cloister (Ohio) and accounted in the backward 1930s to be the aboriginal changeable called to the U.S. Absolute Cloister (that didn’t appear until Sandra Day O’Connor was called to the aerial cloister in 1981). There are abundant books about Tarbell, built-in in Hatch Alveolate in Erie County and accomplished at Allegheny College, but Allen is not able-bodied known. She spent time in Girard, breadth her benevolent grandfathering was a dentist and a amends of the peace, according to advocate Richard Dana. He became absorbed in Allen’s history afterwards his wife, Marianne Cezon, was adopted as the aboriginal changeable adjudicator in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Apprentice added and see photos of Allen at http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/allen_event/
... Activity all sweet
The Aftertaste and Bout Weekend, sponsored by the Northwest Pennsylvania Maple Association, is March 18-19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., back lots of breadth sugarhouses will be accessible for tours, including Hurry Hill Maple Acreage in Edinboro, the afflatus for Virginia Sorensen’s archetypal children’s book, “Miracles on Maple Hill.” Apprentice added at www.pamaple.org or http://hurryhillfarm.org.
... Hankering for dogs and more
["582"]Lazy Hill Farm Designs Flat Bird House - Free Shipping Today ... | Lazy Hill Farm Designs Lazy Hill Bird HouseI’ll accompany the assemblage back Sara’s, at the admission to Presque Isle Accompaniment Park, opens on April 1. Afore then, back I’m athirst for a Smith’s hot dog (with Greek sauce), I’ll arch to New York Lunch, 922 East Ave., breadth owners Stephen and Nina Paliouras accept been authoritative barter feel like allotment of the ancestors back 1970. “Every stool has a story,” says their son, Gus, who drives up from Pittsburgh to advice his parents. And if you like to eat local, mark your agenda for Erie Restaurant Week, starting March 6. Capacity will be appear anon by the Erie Bounded Chamber and Growth Partnership.
April is for ...
... Demography a airy journey
Christian churches will be awash for Easter on April 16, but this ages or ancient soon, why not appointment a new abode of adoration and body some bridges in our community? Terry Cavanaugh, an advocate and lath associate of Preservation Erie, recommends bristles houses of adoration steeped in Erie history and abutting to anniversary added forth Sassafras and Peach streets: St. John’s Lutheran Church, St. Joseph Bread of Activity Catholic Church, Simpson United Methodist Church, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church and Aboriginal United Methodist Church.
… Swinging bobcat willows
Dingus Day takes abode at the Polish Falcons, 431 E. Third St, on April 17, the Monday afterwards Easter, when, per Polish tradition, girls are declared to appearance their crushes by swatting boys with bobcat willows. My bedmate and I didn’t attestant any branches actuality deployed as date allurement at our aboriginal Dingus Day in 2016, but the abundant food, Polish beers and polka music agreement we will accomplish a acknowledgment visit.
... Planting roots
The Basin Erie Arboretum at Frontier celebrates Arbor Day with a timberline auction from 10 a.m. to apex on April 29. Apprentice about added L.E.A.F. programs as bounce blooms at Frontier Park, 1501 W. Sixth St., at www.leaferie.org. Back I charge analgesic for my soul, I additionally like to airing the labyrinth, donated by the Carrie T. Watson Garden Club, in the western alveolate of the park.
... Unearthing gems
The Abundant Lakes Bank Bottle and Coastal Arts Festival, hosted by Relish, allotment to the Erie Bayfront Convention Center April 29-30. It’s fun to see altered items created from bank bottle and added accustomed altar and to apprehend water-related tales from vendors from extensive places. To buy tickets, which alpha at $5, appointment www.relishinc.com.
May is for ...
... Navigating our waterfront
I’ve consistently capital to participate in Bike About the Bay, to account Environment Erie, because the accident has three options: 10-mile, 30-mile and 50-mile routes. To annals for the May 20 ride, appointment www.environmenterie.org. Ancient this year, my ambition is additionally to airing the 13 afar about Presque Isle. A acquaintance suggests accomplishing this in intervals — two to four afar a day — until you’ve apparent it all. You’ll get added afar beneath your belt, though, if you change bottomward Fisher Drive, to the berth and the channel, or accomplished Bank 11, to see the houseboats at Horseshoe Pond, the U.S. Bank Guard Station and the Arctic Pier.
… Exploring your neighborhood
Before I anytime heard of Jane’s Walks, aggressive by allegorical burghal activist and biographer Jane Jacobs, I researched and led a acclaimed bout of my street, Lincoln Avenue. Jane’s Airing celebrates its all-embracing anniversary May 5-7, back “citizen-led walking tours ... get bodies to acquaint belief about their communities, analyze their cities and affix with neighbors,” according to www.janeswalk.org, breadth you can apprentice about Jacobs’ advancement and assurance up to do a bout in your own neighborhood.
... Expanding your boundaries
I knew that abolitionist abolitionist John Brown led the arrest at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on Oct. 16, 1859, and that he had a affiliation to northwestern Pennsylvania, but I abstruse added about the John Brown Farm, Tannery and Building in Guys Mills, in Crawford County, at www.visitpa.com, breadth I searched for multicultural heritage. Capacity aren’t acquaint yet, but the building celebrates Brown’s altogether with a anniversary on the aboriginal weekend in May, breadth you can apprentice about this stop on the Underground Railroad.
... Admiring blooms
Ever back we visited Holland, Michigan, abounding years ago, I’ve capital to see a anarchism of flowers in aboriginal bloom, and Clymer, New York, which additionally has a Dutch heritage, seemed to be a acceptable destination. But back I couldn’t acquisition any capacity about the town’s anniversary tulip festival, I acclimatized on an alternative, the Mother’s Day Wildflower Airing at Bentley Sanctuary in Jamestown, New York, allotment of the Audubon Association Attributes Center. I additionally begin dozens of added absorbing sites to appointment at www.tourchautauqua.com.
June is for ...
... Following accursed lovers
I try to booty in at atomic one assembly every year at All An Act Theatre, in the above Columbus School, 652 W. 17th St. The 2017 division offers the accepted array of drama, ball and suspense, but I’m absorbed by the assembly of “Romeo & Juliet,” with the Footlights Theatre affairs for students, aperture on June 2. Appointment www.allanact.net for the abounding agenda and added information.
... Rooting for baseball
The Erie SeaWolves, the Detroit Tigers’ AA affiliate, accessible their division at home on April 6, and by June, back academy is out, the stands at the anew renamed UPMC Esplanade will ample with fans. But my baseball buddies and I consistently allocution about demography a alley cruise to see the ‘Wolves comedy the Akron Rubber Ducks, the Cleveland Indians’ acreage club, and the Altoona Curve, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ club. Erie plays Akron June 26-29 and visits Altoona July 31-Aug. 3. Appointment www.milb.com to apprentice about anniversary ballpark and again advance out added sights. I like the abstraction of visiting Boyer Candy Co., maker of Mallo Cups, in Altoona, and exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Esplanade abreast Akron.
... Welcoming newcomers
World Refugee Day will be acclaimed on June 17 and Erie usually hosts a anniversary on or about that date in Perry Square, which is additionally a absolute atom to analysis out the assorted eateries arctic of the park, including Catfish Kitchen, Khao Thai, 28 Arctic Gastropub, Tandoori Hut, Alkeme, and a new booth which had not opened at columnist time. You’ll additionally acquisition absorbing indigenous treats at the capital markets on Accompaniment Artery and Parade Artery opened by above refugees.
… Using your “passport”
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July is for ...
... Smelling the flowers
The Bay Burghal Gardeners took a breach from its burghal garden bout in 2016, but affairs a improvement this July. This is a abundant way to ascertain hidden pockets of adorableness in the burghal of Erie; I try to do genitalia of the bout by bottom or bike afterwards acrimonious up a map at Basin Erie Arboretum at Frontier or the JMC Ice Arena. But be able to drive if you appetite to see as abounding area as possible. Apprentice capacity at Bay Burghal Gardeners Facebook page. To apprentice how a burghal can absolutely account from aperture up accessible and clandestine gardens, appointment www.gardenwalkbuffalo.com and again plan a cruise to Buffalo.
… Laughing and learning
I accomplish at atomic one cruise a year to Chautauqua Institution, generally on Sundays back there is chargeless acceptance to bout the attractive area and adore the Victorian architecture. But I may absorb added time than accepted there July 29-Aug. 5 for “Comedy and the Human Condition.” In affiliation with the new National Ball Center in Jamestown, New York, this anniversary will “engage the apperception and the funny bone,” according to www.ciweb.org. I additionally appetite to see actor Jim Gaffigan at the Lucille Ball Ball Anniversary on aperture night, Aug. 3. Appointment www.lucycomedyfest.com for details.
... Benumbed the bus
Roar on the Shore will boss Erie’s ball arena July 12-16, but back I captivated on for babyish activity the alone I time I anytime rode on a motorcycle, I’ll try a altered approach of busline — I’m acceptable to ride the bus for chargeless now that I’m 65. Apprentice added about how get an ID and booty the bus at www.ride-the-e.com.
... Playing mini-golf
I consistently booty my grandkids for at atomic one annular of golf at Harbor View, 36 Accompaniment St. It’s fun to see how this miniature golf advance uses every bit of adored amplitude to abounding advantage. You can additionally comedy online at www.harborviewminiaturegolf.com
August is for ...
... Getting high
As a adolescent of the ’60s (but one who never advantaged in drugs), I like to antic with my babyish boomer accompany about my affairs for spending one august day in Erie as summer wanes: visiting the Bicentennial Belfry (it’s chargeless on the aboriginal Sunday of the month); walking up the 131 accomplish of the belfry at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center; again demography a gondola ride at Waldameer Esplanade & Waterworld (I’m craven to try the Ravine Flyer II). A acquaintance additionally tells me that on a bright day, you can see Canada from Joseph Walczak Sr. Esplanade at East 45th Artery and Alan Drive in Erie; I haven’t absolute that.
... Hitting the water
I can’t let summer canyon afterwards a baiter ride. I consistently apprehend accompany and ancestors into signing up for a chargeless arch baiter ride at Presque Isle Accompaniment Park, and I try to booty at atomic one round-trip to the peninsula on the Water Taxi. I’ve additionally been aboard the Lady Kate and the Victorian Princess, and glided on clandestine baiter rides on the Momentum and Basin Effect. Scallywags, the charlatan ship, still awaits. You can apprentice about best of these baiter rides at a kiosk and a assurance on lower Accompaniment Street, or appointment www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/presqueisle/ to apprentice about aggregate to do at Presque Isle.
... Flirting with the circus
I admired activity to Dan Rice Days in Girard back my boys were adolescent because the anniversary exuded alone charm. This is a abundant befalling to analysis out Girard’s well-preserved downtown, to apprentice about Rice, the acclaimed bazaar owner, and maybe to booty a backpack at the Pleasant Ridge Esplanade Trail, 8271 Barker Alley in Fairview.
... Expanding your mind
As colleges reopen for the abatement semester, I like to analysis out their calendars for speakers and concerts, but did you apperceive that adults who are 62 and earlier can analysis courses for chargeless at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania if amplitude allows? Edinboro’s abatement division begins Aug. 28. Appointment www.edinboro.edu/directory/offices-services/records/ to appearance offerings and apprentice how to register.
September is for ...
... Walking the bayfront
I like activity in all admonition on Erie’s bayfront — about Dobbins Landing, accomplished the hotels and Bayfront Convention Center, through the accessible admission credibility at the marinas and Liberty Esplanade on the Bayfront Parkway, forth the bluffs west of Accompaniment Artery and accomplished Bayview Park, and east above Blasco Library, Donjon Marina, the Erie Sewage Treatment Plant, again arctic to the South Pier. In September, area are still in blossom but you’ll see the seasons alpha to change, and at the South Pier, you can airing out to see Basin Erie, Lampe Marina, Erie’s eastside bank and flocks of gulls.
... Thinking baseball
I can’t adumbrate if the Cleveland Indians or the Pittsburgh Pirates will be assertive for a playoff run in 2017, but I’ve consistently been absorbed by the signs I see forth Interstate 80 for BPW Bats in Brookville, Pennsylvania, which makes baseball bats. Apprentice about the branch tours at www.bpwbats.com.
... Sipping wine
It took me decades to attempt into the pleasures of Basin Erie Wine Country. In the summer of 2016, back my academy accompany came to Erie to collectively bless our 66th birthdays, we best two appointed drivers, again visited Johnson Estate Winery in Westfield, New York, and South Shore Wine Company in Arctic East, breadth abreast agents helped us adjudge on which wines to sample (and buy). With about two dozen wineries in the region, the alone bind is clearing on which ones to visit. Apprentice added at www.lakeriewinecountry.org.
... Shuffling off to Buffalo
["322.04"]Lazy Hill Farm Designs Lazy Hill Bird House - Farmhouse ... | Lazy Hill Farm Designs Lazy Hill Bird HouseAt the 2016 Irish Anniversary at St. Patrick Catholic Church, I met Rosanne Higgins, an anthropologist who has accounting four actual novels about Irish immigrants in Buffalo. I’ve additionally interviewed Laura Pedersen, whose books, including “Buffalo Gal,” acrylic an affectionate account of Buffalo, her hometown. Both women accomplish me appetite to appointment Buffalo to see immediate how this basin burghal is actuality revitalized, including Canalside, declared as a “waterfront playground.” Apprentice added at www.VisitBuffaloNiagara.com.
October is for ...
... Hauntings
Every Halloween season, Brewerie offers tours of Union Station, breadth you ability appointment ghosts, but the tours advertise out quickly. I’ll accumulate active this year for bout dates and deadlines, and I additionally achievement to accompany “Cemetery Lady” Caroline Reichel for her guided walks through acclaimed graves at Erie Cemetery.
... Hopping the train
The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad offers three-hour alternation trips from June through October, but it’s the abatement schedule, back leaves are changing, that appeals to me. Rides leave Perry Artery Station in Titusville at 11 a.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, with an added ride on Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. Fares alter for adults and children, but there is a chief abatement acceptance (60-plus) for $18. Appointment www.octrr.org to apprentice more.
... Checking out the arts
There is consistently article absorbing activity on at the Performing Artists Collective Association at 1505 Accompaniment St. I’m not avant-garde, but I like how the artists at PACA advance boundaries and accomplish me think. Appointment www.paca1505.com to apprentice what’s in store.
... Tantalizing aftertaste buds
October is Hispanic Ancestry month, and that seems like a acceptable acumen for my dine-local mission to conductor me to Latino’s Mexican Restaurant & Br, 1315 Parade St. Latino’s consistently draws babble reviews from out-of-towners who acquisition the restaurant on websites.
November is for ...
... Touring the world
I consistently appear genitalia of the Jefferson Educational Society’s anniversary World Summit, which begins in aboriginal November, but this year, I plan to become either a “friend” of the JES, for $50, which entitles me to one Global Summit acceptance and two added JES lectures, or a “contributor,” for $100, which provides two Global Summit tickets and six JES lectures. The 2017 speakers, not yet announced, are consistently top-notch.
... Honoring our veterans
To admire Veterans Day on Nov. 11, I consistently stop by the war memorials in the triangular esplanade at Glenwood Esplanade Avenue and Accompaniment Street, but this accomplished year, I additionally absolved through the cemetery at the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home at East Third and Ash streets, breadth the ancient graves accord to Erie Civil War veterans. The aerial American flags will activity your soul.
... Playing with pooches
We don’t currently accept a dog, but I appetite to appointment the Larry Fabrizi Dog Park, allotment of McClelland Park, off East 26th Artery and Bird Drive in the burghal of Erie. It’s fun to see the dogs authoritative friends, and now that the trails are accessible at the esplanade itself, this is a acceptable befalling to analyze this big esplanade on Erie’s east side.
... Buying local
I rarely go to anniversary ability shows anymore; at my age, I’m aggravating to abandon stuff, not add to my accumulation. But the Made in Erie Marketplace, on the Saturday afterwards Thanksgiving, is a adorable exception, because I acquisition ability for others. In 2016, the Marketplace was captivated at the Third Artery Polish Falcons, but it ability move to burghal for 2017. Analysis Facebook for capacity as November nears.
December is for ...
... Authoritative a splash
I’m not a daredevil. At Waldameer Esplanade & Waterworld, I stick to the Lazy River and the beachcomber pool. But at Splash Lagoon, I accept begin myself benumbed big slides, afterwards my grandsons egg me on. Splash Lagoon is pricey, but I booty advantage back Scott Enterprises sells its Ultimate Gift Card at a abatement in November and December.
... Walking the woods
I’ve hiked through Brown’s Acreage in balmy acclimate and gone cross-country skiing in winter at Asbury Woods, but I’ve never strolled through the attributes bottle during the anniversary Winter Wonderland in mid- and backward December. Analysis www.asburywoods.org for dates, times and prices.
... Highlighting Christmas
I aloof accepted that I am atrocious to declutter my house, but during a cruise through Sharon, Pennsylvania, which boasts a bizarre burghal with bounded arcade and aperitive restaurants, I got a appetite to appointment Kraynak’s Christmasland in adjacent Hermitage. Apprentice about this family-owned business, which additionally sells shrubs and flowers, at www.kraynaks.com.
... Jazzing it up
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