The Ohio Department of Development's Division of Travel and Tourism has lumped all 1996 events into one booklet for the first time. The 88-page Ohio Calendar of Events lists more than 1,400 happenings through April 1997. That toll-free number also will get updated current events, a fishing report or a travel counselor. The automated system works 24 hours a day. Counselors are available from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Bicentennials are big in Cleveland and dayton.
Moses Cleaveland's town will have its main birthday party July 19-21. Dayton '96 Bicentennial is scheduling Champions Hometown Heroes Celebration for May 25 to honor all of Montgomery and Green counties' champions. The chief will be played by Californian Jack Kohler, who is of American Indian descent from the Yurok and Karok nations. The Circleville Pumpkin Show, the Buckeye State's oldest and largest harvest celebration, will mark its 90th anniversary Oct. 16-19. The traditional Great Trail Festival returns to its grounds south of Malvern the last weekend in August, but something new will follow.