DAILY WALK IN LANCASTER,OHIO THE FAIRGROUNDS,RISING PARK AND MT. PLEASANT IN THE SUMMER TIME

About a week ago the gym Linda and I went to (metro fitness) in Lancaster closed. We will miss seeing Tracy and joking with her. Anyway, for the past week we have been going on daily walks . Today’s walk actually lasted a couple hours with a couple breaks thrown in.

About half an hour into the walk we come to Rising Park and Mt. Pleasant. If you would like to see what the park looks like in the winter check out this YouTube video.

The pond: Ice skate in the winter,fish in the summer. Spent a lot of hours there as a kid. Several of my home made boats are at the bottom of that pond.

 

Tennis camp (not my sport) I would rather pitch horse shoes

No one ever seems to be doing that

Maybe a little lunch at the shelter house or watch the GRAND CHILDREN play at the playground

How about a hike to the top of Mt. Pleasant

A view from the top looking over the Fairgrounds which is next part of the walk

THANK YOU MR. RISING

I grew up on Wilson Ave. in Lancaster and the back of our house bordered the fairgrounds. Hence, I we (the neighborhood kids) spent a lot of time there ( baseball,football,digging holes,setting off fireworks,club house in a horse stall, and the old Civil Air Patrol building.

When I was growing up these horse stalls were really only used during the fair and were vacant the rest of the year. We had a back entrance from the wooded area (a tunnel dug under the wall) . This is where the “lab” was set up for making all our rockets.  If you have ever seen the movie OCTOBER SKY that was us.(made it to the state science fair with one of those rockets)

This building is where the Civil Air Patrol met. Once again an unlocked window from the wooded side of the building gave easy access. We would get inside this building do some marching around and sit at the big desk. The idea was to leave everything exactly as we found it so there would be no trouble. Next ,to our FIELD OF DREAMS:

Those houses in the background face Wilson Ave and the back of the houses face this field. Baseball,football, and rocket launching area. We never did pay to get into the fair just climbed the fence. During fair time they put straw down and line the cows up along that fence.  

 The house on the right is where I lived. The white picket fence wasn’t there and we had a large apple tree in the back yard. Of course there was a mandatory tree house in the top of the tree. Heading home now

That is Mt.Pleasant in background. 

 A couple months back the building shown below was the mystery photo in an Ohio country magazine.

When I got a little older I spent some time in this next building

Some might say a little to much time. Well the walk is almost over but on the way back we stop to smell the flowers

  On at street

that should be called a circle.

Timing is just right. We get home just in time to go  golfing in Granville at the Granville Golf Course

My wife Linda had a hard time saying good bye to Bambi:

Thanks for stopping by Joe Todd

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