Tag: gardening

Thank you Lighthouse Festival Volunteers

October 13, 2014 by Galactic Growth Media

We’d like to thank those who attended this weekend’s Lakeside-Marblehead Lighthouse Festival, and especially thank our volunteers who continue to make this annual tradition a success.

Lakeside-Marblehead Lighthouse Festival Schedule of Events

October 11, 2014 by Galactic Growth Media

The Lakeside-Marblehead Lighthouse Festival, a cherished fall tradition, will take place from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in Lakeside Chautauqua and throughout the Marblehead Peninsula.

This free, peninsula-wide event will include a variety of activities for the entire family to enjoy. There will be tours of the Marblehead Lighthouse, live entertainment, children’s crafts, a pumpkin-decorating contest, plein air artists, arts & crafts vendors, a farmers’ market, hayrides, sailboat rides and much more.

The Lakeside-Marblehead Lighthouse Festival is sponsored by the Marblehead Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and Lakeside Chautauqua.

An Overnight in Charming Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio

October 10, 2014 by Galactic Growth Media

An Overnight in Charming Lakeside Chautauqua, OH Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio is situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Back in 1873, a group of Methodist preachers came to this idyllic locale, set up some benches and pitched their tents, and “raised the praise” in what later became Lakeside Chautauqua. Initially purposed to train … Read more

A Sense of Place

October 7, 2014 by Galactic Growth Media

Guest Blogger: Cheryl Harner

Travel is the best way to experience the vast wonders of nature, and I have done my share. The verdant forests of West Virginia, the rocky mountains of Colorado, and the breath-taking vistas from Big Sur California, each are special for their own unique flora and fauna.

Nothing annoys a plant enthusiast more than golf-course grass in the middle of a dessert or palm trees in Nevada! Seriously, we should travel to experience each unique location, not to visit some homogenization of landscape or the floristic counterpart of McDonald’s fast food!