November 17, 2023 • 33 mins
Get ready to explore Columbus' must-see holiday events this season. Go behind the scenes of the Ohio History Connection's Dickens of a Christmas and German Village's iconic Streizelmarkt with history, fun facts and all the details on what it takes to execute these classic experiences.
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Live Fun Day. Experienced Columbuses LiveForward Live podcast introduces you to a new
frontier of undiscovered possibility. Columbus isa city with an energy of its own.
Join Boxer, Kelsey and their guestsfor an insider's look at a destination
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that invites visitors and locals alike toshare and explore. We'll go behind the
scenes of popular attractions, uncover bestkept secrets for things to see and do,
and meet people who embody what itmeans to live forward. Welcome back
to another special holiday episode of LiveForward Live. This is an Experienced Columbus
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podcast. One of the hosts hereI am Boxer, along with my co
host Kelsey Web Kelsey, good tohave you back with us on this one
Holidays box look at you all festiveand stuff. I'm feeling it. I
love it, pretty excited. Thisis a special podcast where we get to
I don't want to use the wordexposed, but just showcase the wonderful activities
and attractions and unique markets and theways the Columbus community celebrate the holiday season.
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And it gives me great pleasure tointroduce Andrew Hall who's joining us.
Andrew is the Senior Experience Director ofthe Ohio History Connection and the Ohio Village.
Andrew, welcome, Thank you,thanks so much for having me on.
Yeah, well, why don't weget started. You know, we're
going to talk about the holiday seasonhere in Columbus and what makes it so
special. But get to a littlebit more about you. You from Columbus,
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tell us about yourself. Actually,I'm not originally from Columbus. I'm
a transplant, Okay. I'm originallyfrom northwest Ohio, kind of little town
right on the Michigan border, Okay. And I've been here with the History
Connection in Columbus since twenty fifteen,okay. And yeah, so I definitely
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adapted to Columbus. It was thefirst kind of big city outside of Toledo
that I'd ever lived in. Iam my wife here, I met a
lot of my good friends here.So I love this city and I love
working at the History Connection and giving, you know, taking any opportunity I
can to talk about it. Well, And you also got further away from
that state of north so good foryou. So I'm trying not to hold
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any ground, so high fives.I'm proud of you, h Andrew.
Could you explain a little bit moreabout what is Ohio Village and the Ohio
History Connection for those that don't know, of course, So the Ohio History
Connection is actually a statewide organization.It is essentially what used to be known
as the Ohio Historical Society. Sowe manage over fifty sites all across the
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state of Ohio in over forty counties, and our flagship sites are the Ohio
History Center and the Ohio Village,which are right here in Columbus off for
seventeenth Avenue. And the Ohio Villagein particular is a really unique site because
it is a village that was builtactually back in the nineteen seventies, and
it's intended to be almost a historicalplayground for us. It gives us the
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opportunity to talk about different time periods, different topics and really delve into what
makes Ohio unique. And currently OhioVillage is situated in the eighteen nineties,
talking about what Ohio was like rightat the turn of the twentieth century,
as we're right about to head intoa new millennia. Oh wow, Andrew,
and real quick, Andrew, doyou how often do you change that
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up? Well, the last timewe modified the Village was about six years
ago. Okay, I wouldn't saywe're looking to change kind of drastically anytime
soon. We still got a lotto work with, but we do change
time periods every so often. ForChristmas season, it's dickens of a Christmas
corre, right, But you cango there all year round. I just
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went for the first time this summerwith my family, and basically it's just
like a campus that takes you backin time and you can go into old
stores in an old church, andeveryone walking around is in costume and for
it's really cool to see, youknow, and like my son will be
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like, I just what it's likeback on the old guys. You know,
it's so cute, and I justthink their eyes light up because as
a as a kid, you don'tknow what that's like. And then you
see these people actually in costume infront of you, and sometimes there's princesses.
There's like theme days and everything.It's just perfect. Yeah, we
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do a whole lot of different stuffat the village. Honestly, amongst the
program folks, you know, ifwe had to do the same thing every
single day, we get a littlebored. So we enjoy the shaking.
It up a little bit. Butyeah, so we're getting ready to gear
up for the Christmas season. We'regonna be talking all about holiday traditions,
how we got from you know,nineteenth century Christmas up to where our holidays
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are today. So yeah, we'rereally looking forward to this coming December.
Speaking of that, how much researchgoes into prepping for that and the dickens
of a Christmas you know, transformingthat. Yeah, it's actually really interesting
because we have a combination of regularresearch that we do every year to always
refresh our own knowledge make sure we'renot missing anything, but we also have
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an inherited set of kind of generationalresearch that you know, years and years
of programmers and interpreters and historians havebeen developing over the years. So we
have a massive archive of Christmas relatedinformation really all about Ohio, and a
lot of it actually comes from newspaperarchives, delving into what was published in
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old newspapers, what were people talkingabout, what kind of parties were they
publishing, things like that, Andhonestly, it's a very easy thing for
all of us to just get lostdown a rabbit hole where we start,
you know, researching one particular interestingthing and before you know it the day's
over. That seems like an exhaustingamount of time, but as a history
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not You're right, you can getlost in that for days or weeks.
Oh yeah. Many a program havecome from the odd and strange things that
we have found on those strange rabbitchases. Yeah, and Boxer. So
next door to the village, theyalso have the museum. Right, there's
all kinds of experiences and hands onstuff and and movies and you can play
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basketball in one room. I mean, it's just it's really comprehensive and really
really fun. And I learned aton about Ohio, including like the two
headed cow. Right, wait,what's that about? Is it a cow?
Yeah? Too had a count right, yeah, And it's one of
the various natural oddities that you mightfind in Ohio. And again, it's
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one of those things where you neverknow what you're going to see when you
come to the village or the historycenter. Things are always changing, and
even if you've been a hundred timesbefore, I guarantee you there's something there
you haven't seen before. There's evena house from the fifties that you can
go into and you know, gointo the bedroom in the kitchen. Yeah,
I'm telling you, this is acool place you've got to take your
kids. Absolutely, that's amazing.Do you have specifica because you know,
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with the holiday season, and bythe way, Andrew Hall is with us,
who's the senior experience director for OhioHistory Connection in Ohio Village. Do
you have a favorite part personally ofDickens of a Christmas or this transformation when
you get into the holiday season.Yeah. Well, I'll give you kind
of my my broader answer and thenI'll give you my personal answer. Sure.
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So generally speaking, I just Ilove making people happy. That's one
of the reasons why I do whatI do. I am an educator at
heart. I love teaching people,but I recognize that sometimes it's better to
do it in a way that's funfirst, because sometimes when people realize they're
being taught something, they close off. But if you're having fun and then
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you realize later that you learn something, that's my goal. So Dickens of
a Christmas is a great opportunity tosee entire families coming out forming these great
connections, you know, tightening thosebonds. But other than that, honestly,
my personal favorite thing about Dickens ofa Christmas is that I get to
step outside of the planning phase duringthe event, and I actually get to
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have some fun because during the event, I actually portray Charles Dickens. As
you're wandering through the village, youmight run into the very author himself.
I didn't know we had a celebrityin our presence, Andrew Hall, glad
you unveiled that. It doesn't hurtthat I bear a striking resemblance to Charles
Dickens once I groom myself appropriately.But I've also just been fascinated by his
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life, the stories that he wrote. I like a lot of his books,
and I think he's a very complexindividual that a lot of people only
know just a little bit about.So it's a great opportunity to learn both
again about his stories and then abouthim himself. What's your outfit like?
Very posh? He was not onlyremarked about himself, but also a lot
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of his friends remarked that he wasa bit of a fop or dandy.
He liked to dress younger than himself, so he would often dress in bright
or flamboyant colors, very rich fabrics, things like that, lots of velvet.
Honestly, lot's of velvet take usbehind the scenes, because what you
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know, what are some things behindthe scenes that we might not know or
get to see that would fascinate us. Sure, I mean honestly, you
know, most people just they comeinto Dickens when they buy their ticket,
they walk in the gate, andthey get to have fun. But it's
well more than a month of preparation. We just got over our Halloween season
with our All Hollows Eve events,which we do every Saturday in October,
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and right now we are already gearingup for Christmas. I know it's not
even Thanksgiving yet, but we arestarting to decorate and starting to pull our
activities together. We're doing our researchand we're starting to recruit volunteers. One
of the things that most people don'trealize about our large scale events is that
those are not banned primarily by staffpeople. We only have a small staff,
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so we have a lot of volunteerswho work with us, and I
would say any given day of Dictensof a Christmas takes probably about fifty plus
volunteers in order to pull off andhave it be that experience that we're looking
for. I had no idea theimportance of volunteers, so we do a
lot of comedy engagement. We worka lot with folks who are just passionate
about history, like yourself. Yeah, but also, you know, we
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do our best to find ways toget people excited about the history, because
if you're not excited about it,then it's going to be really hard to
get our visitors excited about things whenthey show up. And Andrew, when
you're not at the Ohio Village andthe History Connection, where do you like
to go in Columbus? What doyou enjoy about Columbus. Well, I
am definitely a sucker for museums,as you might have guessed, so I
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love going to the Franklin Park Conservatory. My wife and I make frequent stops
at the Columbus Museum of Art.I also like catching shows when I can.
I used to live down on thesouth side of Columbus, so I
would catch the Shakespeare in the Parkat Schiller Park all the time. Oh
yeah, I really enjoy the artshere in Columbus. I've found it to
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be a really thriving area and I'vebeen enjoying it for the past few years.
Oh, you're spot on about that. Andrew Hall's with Us, the
senior Experience director of Ohio History Connectionand Ohio Village Live, Forward, Live
and Experience Columbus Podcast our special Holidayedition episode when specifically you zero in on
the magic of the holiday season herein Columbus. Are there any parts of
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the city that you like to driveby, or walk to or hit We
get things like German Village, forexample, There's been the Wild Lights at
the Zoo. Do you have afavorite with you and your family? Yeah,
I mean you already hit on oneof them. The Wild Lights at
the Zoo is always a tradition thatI go to here in Columbus. But
I do like German Village walking aroundeven down by Nationwides Campus, they have
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lots of really pretty light down there. Again, I lived in that area
for a long time. Or evenjust going out to somewhere like Easton or
just driving the neighborhoods. I've beenreally impressed, especially over the past few
years, as people have really gottentheir holiday spirit back up. They're really
trying to I don't know, itseems like people are trying to come back
after twenty twenty twenty twenty one andreally show that spirit. And I've been
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enjoying it. I would agree,wouldn't you that. I feel like more
and more people have gotten into andeven earlier decorating the exterior of their home.
Well, I think that after wewent through COVID and we, you
know, our perspective changed on alot of things and what's important, you
know, and family and community andcity and neighborhood, and you know,
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I think we're really ready to celebrateall of that. Yeah, And honestly,
that's one of the main things thatwe try to do at the village
and at the History Center. Wetry to make a space that's comfortable and
welcoming for people to be able to, you know, welcome their families and
friends, even if you don't havea large family, or if you have
a chosen family. You know,it's a really great way to pull everybody
together. Andrew, as we startto wrap up, just a question of
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curiosity, how long did it takeyou to master the role of Dickens.
I'm not sure I'd say I've masteredhim quite yet. So I've been publicly
portraying Charles Dickens for three years now. I've actually roped my wife into portraying
Catherine Dickens because she actually is fascinatedby her story, which I learned is
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past year that she is also apublished author. She published her own cookbooks.
So the Dickens family tree is alot more prosperous than I had thought.
And it's just I don't know.I do lots of vocal training over
the course of November December so Ican try to get my accent right.
And as an example, oh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm
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not sure I could do it verywell right off the top of my head,
but I'll do my best. Butyeah, And I always make sure
to reread at the bare minimum ofChristmas Carol every year before Dickens of a
Christmas because I want to get thestory straight and I know people are going
to ask questions, and I alwaystry to at least read some of his
lesser known holiday stories, like ThePickwick Papers is actually the more or less
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the rough draft version of a ChristmasCarol, and it's a lot stranger.
So if you want to try outa Christmas story that's just a little strange,
it's got a Christmas goblin as opposedto Christmas ghosts. The Picckwick Papers
is a good thing to check out, Okay, because when you were talking
about that, I was thinking aboutall the movies from a Christmas Carol that
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have been made. Is there oneout there that is as close as the
possibility of what you would think isauthentic? And maybe that's too much of
a tough question. Yeah, I'mnot sure. I am, I'm not
sure. I'm the expert on thosemovies particularly, But I'll tell you one
that's always stuck with me since Igot a little kid, and it's actually
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it's the Disney Mickey Mouse version.I know that. I just saw it
the other day. I grew upwith that. It's actually still a family
tradition in my family. We watchthat, amongst several other animated specials every
year on Christmas. And it's forwhatever reason, it's the first thing that
comes to my mind. Well,Boxer is a big Disney married there,
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Andrew, I did not expect youto say that that is that's my favorite
movie. It is. I loveit. I love it too funny.
As we wrap up here, Iknow this is the holiday season, but
just to give a perspective about youknow, outside of the holidays, you
know, come next year, anyspecific things that are a destination for you
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know, people to go see.So yeah, we I mean, especially
at Ohio Village as History Center andall across our site network. We have
constantly we have programs running, likeright after the end of the I should
say the start of the year,huh, you'll find book talks, webinars,
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films to watch. By the timeyou get to February, we've got
lots of in person events coming up. One of my personal favorites that we
have that's kind of our early yearprogram. It's in February. It's our
Night at the Museum program, ohFun, where the Ohio History Center literally
comes alive and we have our exhibitsout as characters walking the floor, interacting
with each other, things like that. So there's always something going on from
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the Ohio Village and the Ohio HistoryConnection, and of course the Dickens of
a Christmas. It is a mussyfor the holiday season at Columbus and Andrew
Hall. We appreciate your time.Website for more info, Yeah, you
can go to Ohiohistory dot org formore info. That way you'll find all
the different programs we have, aswell as specific information about things like Dickens
of a Christmas. Andrew. Thishas many a pleasure. Thanks for being
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our guest. Thank you so muchfor having me. It's been fun.
It's the most joyous time of theyear, absolutely, you know what.
Okay, So I love summer andI hate everything else, but no,
I always say that to myself,and then fall comes, and then snowfalls,
and then you remember that it's socozy and special and magical. And
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we have all of these nooks andcrannies and perfect places to celebrate the holidays
in Columbus, especially German Village.Oh my gosh, like it's just gorgeous,
right, And that's what this episodespecifically is about. We're celebrating Columbus,
showcasing the wonderful activities, the uniquemarkets, in all the ways we
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as a Columbus community celebrate this season, as I've said, the most joyous,
wonderful time of the year. Andwe want to welcome Carol Ross with
us from German Village. Streisle Market, the holiday market in German Village during
Village lights. Carol, welcome morning. Thank you for having me. Really
glad to have you with us.I know we're going to dive into what
you do. The Streissle Market specificallyitself, just get it. We want
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to get to know you, though, first tell us about yourself. Sure
thing, I am a transplant.I was born and raised in Connecticut,
and we've been out here now forabout eight years. Lived in German Village,
Schumacher Place, and now back inGerman Village. So we've been really
enjoying the Midwest. So from Connecticut, was German Village the first place you
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landed here in Columbus or No,we spent a year in Marysville. Oh
yeah, I mean yeah on theoutskirts. I live near Marysville, but
it's way different than German Village.It is different. And my partner got
a job at Honda. So yeah, we just packed up and came out
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this way. And we stayed inMarysville for a year with a lot of
back and forth trips to Columbus.And after a year it was like,
I don't really want to be inMarysville anymore if we can help it,
so if we just kind of keptgoing, and then we found German Village
and that was it. Carol,tell us about the moment you discovered German
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Village, because I remember what itwas like for me the first time I
set foot there. I'm like thisis amazing here. So what was it
like for you? Sure thing?So we were just kind of driving around
and then we saw the brick streetsand all the old brick houses and drove
past Schiller Park and it was justyou couldn't really ask for sort of a
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more picturesque place, especially with alittle one. Yeah, and so we
set to finding a house in GermanVillage and we ended up kind of right
across from Winans, so it wassuper perfect, Like we could go to
Winans every day and go to thepark every day, and it was it's
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it's a fantastic place to land.You went to wine and you go to
winings every day. We did.When that's lots of chocolate coffee, the
very happy small child, I betno kidding, right? And then how
did you become involved with the Striiselmarket? Striisle Market last year was the
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first year that I helped out withthe Striisle Market. It sort of came
through the German Village Farmers Market.So we wanted to do something for village
lights, and we hooked up withGerman Village Society and the German Village business
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community and they were gracious enough tolet us kind of take over a big
part of Third Street, So fromSaint Mary's School all the way down to
the Meetinghouse a couple of blocks andjust lots of vendors, beer and wine
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and Santa Clausas and reindeer and allthe things that come with a good Christmas
market. So for those that youdid a great job describing it. But
I'm thinking specifically the Streisle market,especially during the holidays. For those that
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haven't been there, what do theyneed to hit what do they need to
experience there, especially in German village. So you'll start on Third Street kind
of wandering around, and when youget to the Meetinghouse you'll see all of
these white tents and it's all litup, so there's vendors there. Last
year we had the Columbus Opera thereas well, and they were doing some
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caroling and some singing. And thenfrom there you'll just continue down Third and
it's just a big long line ofvendors and food trucks. Is it specific
days? It's going to be aSunday December third from five to nine.
Okay, oh cool? Are youGerman? I am a little bit German.
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My mom's mom, my grandmother wasa German Irish. Okay, so
a little bit, so you don'thave to be German, you don't have
to silly. So tell us aboutwhat's it like behind the scenes of all
the magic that goes into the holidayseason in German village. Yeah, it's
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a lot of meetings, a lotof lots of emails, lots of communicating
with vendors and folks that live aroundthe meetinghouse to just make sure everybody's happy
with mostly because it's just so manypeople come through sure, so you just
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want to make sure that all ofthe residents are still happy about where they're
at and having people just kind ofwandering past their houses and kind of peaking
it a little bit, and justlots of coordinating, lots and lots of
coordinating between vendors and food trucks andparking is a little tricky that night.
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That might be the worst night forparking if you are coming down maybe Uber
or some kind of ride share situation. Carol, is this an all year
round planning thing when it comes tothis event? Are you planning all year
round for something like this? Iam planning all your round thing like this.
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The first day of the Farmer's Marketin May I had vendors asking when
the applications would be coming out forvillage lights and anything that they should know
about it this year, just becauseit's such a great vendor event. You
come down. You can do allof your Christmas shopping. You don't have
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to go to the mall. Youcan get something that's locally made, handmade,
and meet the person who made it, which is really cool. So
it is planning starts for me inthe springtime, for sure. So as
an East Coaster, what's it liketo be in Columbus? Compare Compare the
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two. I mean, obviously Ithink it's better here Auby, but you
know, you have that unique perspectiveand I know that you know, the
East Coast is flash here and we'remore Midwestern and everything. But once you
get here, I think you discoverthat's not the case. Yeah. So
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I miss the ocean, Yeah,miss seeing the seashore and the shoreline,
and I miss like hills. It'svery flat, you could see for miles.
But the people out here are sowelcoming, so incredibly friendly and kind.
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We've built a community of just friends, and we came out here with
no family at all, just thethree of us. So we've managed to
find sort of our own little tribeof people just around the neighborhood. Everybody
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has been very, very welcoming.Was that audit first too, because I
know I've lived different places born andraised in the Midwest, though, and
especially the East Coasters, They'll think, are you for real? There's no
way someone could either be this niceor this accommodating or was that? Did
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you have difficulty believing it at first? The charm of Columbus, Yeah,
I sure did. The first timethat we walked around after we moved to
German Village, people like smile andsay hello to you. And as an
East Coaster, that is you know, that's like they've got an angle,
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right, Yeah, something or somethingweird is going on, But here people
are just like they're glad to seeyou all the time. Yeah, it's
it took a minute to get usedto it, for sure. The pace
here is slower, people walk slower, and are you okay with that?
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Or I've gotten used to it?But when I have family come in from
out of town, they are liketheir go go go, and people here
are just like a little bit yeah, like I don't you know, I
don't have to rush. I'm totallyright, you're in our area. Now
you roll with us. That's Carolross Is with this job from the German
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Village Streisle Market. It's the holidaymarket if you don't know, in German
Village during the Village Lights. It'sa part of our celebrate Columbus during the
holidays on our Live Forward, LiveExperience Columbus podcast, Carol, do you
have a favorite part of the lightsevent or just the German Village Streisle Market?
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It is it's amazing to see howmany people come into town for it.
People come in from all over.They really make a whole day out
of it, make a whole tripout of it. So it's wonderful to
see all of those people coming intothe community. And they come. If
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it's raining, they come, ifit's freezing cold, they come, if
it's warm, they come just tosee the village all up in all of
its glory. So it's a it'sa really beautiful experience. And when you're
not in German Village, where elsedo you love to go in Columbus?
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Honestly, if I can't walk there, there's not a lot of places that
I go. Yeah, I was, this is probably my third or fourth
time down in this part of townand we just go to like Kemba see
bands. Okay, so we're downstraight too far from the South End.
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Okay, in your own little worldthere in German Village? Yeah, do
you you know, we'd like toask all of our guests, especially with
our holiday series, but now thatyou've been here a little while, do
you have a favorite? You know, I realized there's German Village, But
have you gone to other places inColumbus during the holidays to experience that that
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festive part of the season. Yeah, we have done the Franklin Park.
Oh yeah, and the Christmas timeand it's really beautiful. So that's a
really fun one. The conservatory,is that okay? Just making sure.
Yeah, yep, that's a goodone. Have you done Wild Lights?
I have not? Oh you gotto Wild Lights. How would you describe
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especially German Village during the holiday season? How would you describe that to someone?
Yeah, people go all out Christmaslights, greenery, just almost every
house is decorated. You're gonna behard pressed to find a dud, so
just lots of you know, yougo and get a cup of coffee at
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wine ends or stuffs and then justwalk around the neighborhood and you can see
just all kinds of decorations and reallyjust beautiful, kind of tasteful. You're
not going to see a whole lotof like twenty foot waving inflatables. Yeah,
so just really really pretty, sortof very old world, Yeah yeah,
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kind of a vibe, Carol,I understand. There's actually a couple
of other markets that are happening inGerman Village too during this time. Yep.
There's not Your Mama's Craft Market,which is a really great one,
and they'll be inside the Schiller ParkRec Center. And then there's also the
German Village Makers Market and they areon the corner of City Park and Thurman
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And there's going to be a trolleyand a pedal cart pulling people kind of
all around. Sometimes people get stuckon Third Street and then from Third Street
to Schmidts and then they don't reallyveer off that path. So this is
a way to just get people allaround the neighborhood because it's a little bit
bigger than just that little stretch.It's hard to get me to leave Schmidt
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So and when it's not the holidaysin German Village what do you like to
do. Yeah, so we spenda lot of time at Parsons North Brewing
Company. They've been very kind tous. That's actually where our winter market
will be set up, and they'redoing a Christmas tree sale this year.
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And there's just a whole bunch ofrestaurants that are in walking distance, bars,
coffee shops, si Park, havea little picnic, grab a sandwich,
a brown bag, deli, orcat singers and just set yourself up
with a little picnic situation at thepark. The ducks watch everybody walk around.
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We just did a dog Halloween costumeraid with the cakeount which was super
fun and that was in chiller justwatching all the dogs walk around in their
costumes. It was really groovy.So that was a very cool thing.
We just got through october Fest.But as soon as patio season starts back
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up and it warms back up again, as we are always thinking about the
next season and what's coming up,there's plenty of places to go and sit
outside and just enjoy the scenery andthe food and the beer and everything that
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has our part of the town hasto offer. If someone is wanting more
on the streisole market, the holidaylights. Is there social media pages they
can see a website they can goto. Yeah, sure, so you
can go to the German Village FarmersMarket, Instagram or the German Village Society
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has a website and Instagram and Facebookas well. And we'll be just keeping
everybody up to date on lists ofvendors, chucks and all of the other
things that are going on. There'sa bunch of stuff going on in the
village that night. It's an excitingtime of the year, the holiday season
in Columbus and German Village. CarolRoss from the German Village Streisle Market with
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us as our guest this week,and thanks for your time, Thanks for
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podcast. One of the hosts hereI am Boxer, along with my co
host Kelsey Web Kelsey, good tohave you back with us on this one
Holidays box look at you all festiveand stuff. I'm feeling it. I
love it, pretty excited. Thisis a special podcast where we get to
I don't want to use the wordexposed, but just showcase the wonderful activities
and attractions and unique markets and theways the Columbus community celebrate the holiday season.
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And it gives me great pleasure tointroduce Andrew Hall who's joining us.
Andrew is the Senior Experience Director ofthe Ohio History Connection and the Ohio Village.
Andrew, welcome, Thank you,thanks so much for having me on.
Yeah, well, why don't weget started. You know, we're
going to talk about the holiday seasonhere in Columbus and what makes it so
special. But get to a littlebit more about you. You from Columbus,
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tell us about yourself. Actually,I'm not originally from Columbus. I'm
a transplant, Okay. I'm originallyfrom northwest Ohio, kind of little town
right on the Michigan border, Okay. And I've been here with the History
Connection in Columbus since twenty fifteen,okay. And yeah, so I definitely
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adapted to Columbus. It was thefirst kind of big city outside of Toledo
that I'd ever lived in. Iam my wife here, I met a
lot of my good friends here.So I love this city and I love
working at the History Connection and giving, you know, taking any opportunity I
can to talk about it. Well, And you also got further away from
that state of north so good foryou. So I'm trying not to hold
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any ground, so high fives.I'm proud of you, h Andrew.
Could you explain a little bit moreabout what is Ohio Village and the Ohio
History Connection for those that don't know, of course, So the Ohio History
Connection is actually a statewide organization.It is essentially what used to be known
as the Ohio Historical Society. Sowe manage over fifty sites all across the
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state of Ohio in over forty counties, and our flagship sites are the Ohio
History Center and the Ohio Village,which are right here in Columbus off for
seventeenth Avenue. And the Ohio Villagein particular is a really unique site because
it is a village that was builtactually back in the nineteen seventies, and
it's intended to be almost a historicalplayground for us. It gives us the
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opportunity to talk about different time periods, different topics and really delve into what
makes Ohio unique. And currently OhioVillage is situated in the eighteen nineties,
talking about what Ohio was like rightat the turn of the twentieth century,
as we're right about to head intoa new millennia. Oh wow, Andrew,
and real quick, Andrew, doyou how often do you change that
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up? Well, the last timewe modified the Village was about six years
ago. Okay, I wouldn't saywe're looking to change kind of drastically anytime
soon. We still got a lotto work with, but we do change
time periods every so often. ForChristmas season, it's dickens of a Christmas
corre, right, But you cango there all year round. I just
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went for the first time this summerwith my family, and basically it's just
like a campus that takes you backin time and you can go into old
stores in an old church, andeveryone walking around is in costume and for
it's really cool to see, youknow, and like my son will be
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like, I just what it's likeback on the old guys. You know,
it's so cute, and I justthink their eyes light up because as
a as a kid, you don'tknow what that's like. And then you
see these people actually in costume infront of you, and sometimes there's princesses.
There's like theme days and everything.It's just perfect. Yeah, we
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do a whole lot of different stuffat the village. Honestly, amongst the
program folks, you know, ifwe had to do the same thing every
single day, we get a littlebored. So we enjoy the shaking.
It up a little bit. Butyeah, so we're getting ready to gear
up for the Christmas season. We'regonna be talking all about holiday traditions,
how we got from you know,nineteenth century Christmas up to where our holidays
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are today. So yeah, we'rereally looking forward to this coming December.
Speaking of that, how much researchgoes into prepping for that and the dickens
of a Christmas you know, transformingthat. Yeah, it's actually really interesting
because we have a combination of regularresearch that we do every year to always
refresh our own knowledge make sure we'renot missing anything, but we also have
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an inherited set of kind of generationalresearch that you know, years and years
of programmers and interpreters and historians havebeen developing over the years. So we
have a massive archive of Christmas relatedinformation really all about Ohio, and a
lot of it actually comes from newspaperarchives, delving into what was published in
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old newspapers, what were people talkingabout, what kind of parties were they
publishing, things like that, Andhonestly, it's a very easy thing for
all of us to just get lostdown a rabbit hole where we start,
you know, researching one particular interestingthing and before you know it the day's
over. That seems like an exhaustingamount of time, but as a history
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not You're right, you can getlost in that for days or weeks.
Oh yeah. Many a program havecome from the odd and strange things that
we have found on those strange rabbitchases. Yeah, and Boxer. So
next door to the village, theyalso have the museum. Right, there's
all kinds of experiences and hands onstuff and and movies and you can play
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basketball in one room. I mean, it's just it's really comprehensive and really
really fun. And I learned aton about Ohio, including like the two
headed cow. Right, wait,what's that about? Is it a cow?
Yeah? Too had a count right, yeah, And it's one of
the various natural oddities that you mightfind in Ohio. And again, it's
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one of those things where you neverknow what you're going to see when you
come to the village or the historycenter. Things are always changing, and
even if you've been a hundred timesbefore, I guarantee you there's something there
you haven't seen before. There's evena house from the fifties that you can
go into and you know, gointo the bedroom in the kitchen. Yeah,
I'm telling you, this is acool place you've got to take your
kids. Absolutely, that's amazing.Do you have specifica because you know,
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with the holiday season, and bythe way, Andrew Hall is with us,
who's the senior experience director for OhioHistory Connection in Ohio Village. Do
you have a favorite part personally ofDickens of a Christmas or this transformation when
you get into the holiday season.Yeah. Well, I'll give you kind
of my my broader answer and thenI'll give you my personal answer. Sure.
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So generally speaking, I just Ilove making people happy. That's one
of the reasons why I do whatI do. I am an educator at
heart. I love teaching people,but I recognize that sometimes it's better to
do it in a way that's funfirst, because sometimes when people realize they're
being taught something, they close off. But if you're having fun and then
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you realize later that you learn something, that's my goal. So Dickens of
a Christmas is a great opportunity tosee entire families coming out forming these great
connections, you know, tightening thosebonds. But other than that, honestly,
my personal favorite thing about Dickens ofa Christmas is that I get to
step outside of the planning phase duringthe event, and I actually get to
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have some fun because during the event, I actually portray Charles Dickens. As
you're wandering through the village, youmight run into the very author himself.
I didn't know we had a celebrityin our presence, Andrew Hall, glad
you unveiled that. It doesn't hurtthat I bear a striking resemblance to Charles
Dickens once I groom myself appropriately.But I've also just been fascinated by his
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life, the stories that he wrote. I like a lot of his books,
and I think he's a very complexindividual that a lot of people only
know just a little bit about.So it's a great opportunity to learn both
again about his stories and then abouthim himself. What's your outfit like?
Very posh? He was not onlyremarked about himself, but also a lot
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of his friends remarked that he wasa bit of a fop or dandy.
He liked to dress younger than himself, so he would often dress in bright
or flamboyant colors, very rich fabrics, things like that, lots of velvet.
Honestly, lot's of velvet take usbehind the scenes, because what you
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know, what are some things behindthe scenes that we might not know or
get to see that would fascinate us. Sure, I mean honestly, you
know, most people just they comeinto Dickens when they buy their ticket,
they walk in the gate, andthey get to have fun. But it's
well more than a month of preparation. We just got over our Halloween season
with our All Hollows Eve events,which we do every Saturday in October,
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and right now we are already gearingup for Christmas. I know it's not
even Thanksgiving yet, but we arestarting to decorate and starting to pull our
activities together. We're doing our researchand we're starting to recruit volunteers. One
of the things that most people don'trealize about our large scale events is that
those are not banned primarily by staffpeople. We only have a small staff,
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so we have a lot of volunteerswho work with us, and I
would say any given day of Dictensof a Christmas takes probably about fifty plus
volunteers in order to pull off andhave it be that experience that we're looking
for. I had no idea theimportance of volunteers, so we do a
lot of comedy engagement. We worka lot with folks who are just passionate
about history, like yourself. Yeah, but also, you know, we
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do our best to find ways toget people excited about the history, because
if you're not excited about it,then it's going to be really hard to
get our visitors excited about things whenthey show up. And Andrew, when
you're not at the Ohio Village andthe History Connection, where do you like
to go in Columbus? What doyou enjoy about Columbus. Well, I
am definitely a sucker for museums,as you might have guessed, so I
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love going to the Franklin Park Conservatory. My wife and I make frequent stops
at the Columbus Museum of Art.I also like catching shows when I can.
I used to live down on thesouth side of Columbus, so I
would catch the Shakespeare in the Parkat Schiller Park all the time. Oh
yeah, I really enjoy the artshere in Columbus. I've found it to
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be a really thriving area and I'vebeen enjoying it for the past few years.
Oh, you're spot on about that. Andrew Hall's with Us, the
senior Experience director of Ohio History Connectionand Ohio Village Live, Forward, Live
and Experience Columbus Podcast our special Holidayedition episode when specifically you zero in on
the magic of the holiday season herein Columbus. Are there any parts of
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the city that you like to driveby, or walk to or hit We
get things like German Village, forexample, There's been the Wild Lights at
the Zoo. Do you have afavorite with you and your family? Yeah,
I mean you already hit on oneof them. The Wild Lights at
the Zoo is always a tradition thatI go to here in Columbus. But
I do like German Village walking aroundeven down by Nationwides Campus, they have
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lots of really pretty light down there. Again, I lived in that area
for a long time. Or evenjust going out to somewhere like Easton or
just driving the neighborhoods. I've beenreally impressed, especially over the past few
years, as people have really gottentheir holiday spirit back up. They're really
trying to I don't know, itseems like people are trying to come back
after twenty twenty twenty twenty one andreally show that spirit. And I've been
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enjoying it. I would agree,wouldn't you that. I feel like more
and more people have gotten into andeven earlier decorating the exterior of their home.
Well, I think that after wewent through COVID and we, you
know, our perspective changed on alot of things and what's important, you
know, and family and community andcity and neighborhood, and you know,
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I think we're really ready to celebrateall of that. Yeah, And honestly,
that's one of the main things thatwe try to do at the village
and at the History Center. Wetry to make a space that's comfortable and
welcoming for people to be able to, you know, welcome their families and
friends, even if you don't havea large family, or if you have
a chosen family. You know,it's a really great way to pull everybody
together. Andrew, as we startto wrap up, just a question of
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curiosity, how long did it takeyou to master the role of Dickens.
I'm not sure I'd say I've masteredhim quite yet. So I've been publicly
portraying Charles Dickens for three years now. I've actually roped my wife into portraying
Catherine Dickens because she actually is fascinatedby her story, which I learned is
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past year that she is also apublished author. She published her own cookbooks.
So the Dickens family tree is alot more prosperous than I had thought.
And it's just I don't know.I do lots of vocal training over
the course of November December so Ican try to get my accent right.
And as an example, oh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm
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not sure I could do it verywell right off the top of my head,
but I'll do my best. Butyeah, And I always make sure
to reread at the bare minimum ofChristmas Carol every year before Dickens of a
Christmas because I want to get thestory straight and I know people are going
to ask questions, and I alwaystry to at least read some of his
lesser known holiday stories, like ThePickwick Papers is actually the more or less
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the rough draft version of a ChristmasCarol, and it's a lot stranger.
So if you want to try outa Christmas story that's just a little strange,
it's got a Christmas goblin as opposedto Christmas ghosts. The Picckwick Papers
is a good thing to check out, Okay, because when you were talking
about that, I was thinking aboutall the movies from a Christmas Carol that
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have been made. Is there oneout there that is as close as the
possibility of what you would think isauthentic? And maybe that's too much of
a tough question. Yeah, I'mnot sure. I am, I'm not
sure. I'm the expert on thosemovies particularly, But I'll tell you one
that's always stuck with me since Igot a little kid, and it's actually
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it's the Disney Mickey Mouse version.I know that. I just saw it
the other day. I grew upwith that. It's actually still a family
tradition in my family. We watchthat, amongst several other animated specials every
year on Christmas. And it's forwhatever reason, it's the first thing that
comes to my mind. Well,Boxer is a big Disney married there,
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Andrew, I did not expect youto say that that is that's my favorite
movie. It is. I loveit. I love it too funny.
As we wrap up here, Iknow this is the holiday season, but
just to give a perspective about youknow, outside of the holidays, you
know, come next year, anyspecific things that are a destination for you
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know, people to go see.So yeah, we I mean, especially
at Ohio Village as History Center andall across our site network. We have
constantly we have programs running, likeright after the end of the I should
say the start of the year,huh, you'll find book talks, webinars,
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films to watch. By the timeyou get to February, we've got
lots of in person events coming up. One of my personal favorites that we
have that's kind of our early yearprogram. It's in February. It's our
Night at the Museum program, ohFun, where the Ohio History Center literally
comes alive and we have our exhibitsout as characters walking the floor, interacting
with each other, things like that. So there's always something going on from
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the Ohio Village and the Ohio HistoryConnection, and of course the Dickens of
a Christmas. It is a mussyfor the holiday season at Columbus and Andrew
Hall. We appreciate your time.Website for more info, Yeah, you
can go to Ohiohistory dot org formore info. That way you'll find all
the different programs we have, aswell as specific information about things like Dickens
of a Christmas. Andrew. Thishas many a pleasure. Thanks for being
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our guest. Thank you so muchfor having me. It's been fun.
It's the most joyous time of theyear, absolutely, you know what.
Okay, So I love summer andI hate everything else, but no,
I always say that to myself,and then fall comes, and then snowfalls,
and then you remember that it's socozy and special and magical. And
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we have all of these nooks andcrannies and perfect places to celebrate the holidays
in Columbus, especially German Village.Oh my gosh, like it's just gorgeous,
right, And that's what this episodespecifically is about. We're celebrating Columbus,
showcasing the wonderful activities, the uniquemarkets, in all the ways we
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as a Columbus community celebrate this season, as I've said, the most joyous,
wonderful time of the year. Andwe want to welcome Carol Ross with
us from German Village. Streisle Market, the holiday market in German Village during
Village lights. Carol, welcome morning. Thank you for having me. Really
glad to have you with us.I know we're going to dive into what
you do. The Streissle Market specificallyitself, just get it. We want
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to get to know you, though, first tell us about yourself. Sure
thing, I am a transplant.I was born and raised in Connecticut,
and we've been out here now forabout eight years. Lived in German Village,
Schumacher Place, and now back inGerman Village. So we've been really
enjoying the Midwest. So from Connecticut, was German Village the first place you
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landed here in Columbus or No,we spent a year in Marysville. Oh
yeah, I mean yeah on theoutskirts. I live near Marysville, but
it's way different than German Village.It is different. And my partner got
a job at Honda. So yeah, we just packed up and came out
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this way. And we stayed inMarysville for a year with a lot of
back and forth trips to Columbus.And after a year it was like,
I don't really want to be inMarysville anymore if we can help it,
so if we just kind of keptgoing, and then we found German Village
and that was it. Carol,tell us about the moment you discovered German
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Village, because I remember what itwas like for me the first time I
set foot there. I'm like thisis amazing here. So what was it
like for you? Sure thing?So we were just kind of driving around
and then we saw the brick streetsand all the old brick houses and drove
past Schiller Park and it was justyou couldn't really ask for sort of a
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more picturesque place, especially with alittle one. Yeah, and so we
set to finding a house in GermanVillage and we ended up kind of right
across from Winans, so it wassuper perfect, Like we could go to
Winans every day and go to thepark every day, and it was it's
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it's a fantastic place to land.You went to wine and you go to
winings every day. We did.When that's lots of chocolate coffee, the
very happy small child, I betno kidding, right? And then how
did you become involved with the Striiselmarket? Striisle Market last year was the
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first year that I helped out withthe Striisle Market. It sort of came
through the German Village Farmers Market.So we wanted to do something for village
lights, and we hooked up withGerman Village Society and the German Village business
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community and they were gracious enough tolet us kind of take over a big
part of Third Street, So fromSaint Mary's School all the way down to
the Meetinghouse a couple of blocks andjust lots of vendors, beer and wine
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and Santa Clausas and reindeer and allthe things that come with a good Christmas
market. So for those that youdid a great job describing it. But
I'm thinking specifically the Streisle market,especially during the holidays. For those that
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haven't been there, what do theyneed to hit what do they need to
experience there, especially in German village. So you'll start on Third Street kind
of wandering around, and when youget to the Meetinghouse you'll see all of
these white tents and it's all litup, so there's vendors there. Last
year we had the Columbus Opera thereas well, and they were doing some
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caroling and some singing. And thenfrom there you'll just continue down Third and
it's just a big long line ofvendors and food trucks. Is it specific
days? It's going to be aSunday December third from five to nine.
Okay, oh cool? Are youGerman? I am a little bit German.
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My mom's mom, my grandmother wasa German Irish. Okay, so
a little bit, so you don'thave to be German, you don't have
to silly. So tell us aboutwhat's it like behind the scenes of all
the magic that goes into the holidayseason in German village. Yeah, it's
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a lot of meetings, a lotof lots of emails, lots of communicating
with vendors and folks that live aroundthe meetinghouse to just make sure everybody's happy
with mostly because it's just so manypeople come through sure, so you just
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want to make sure that all ofthe residents are still happy about where they're
at and having people just kind ofwandering past their houses and kind of peaking
it a little bit, and justlots of coordinating, lots and lots of
coordinating between vendors and food trucks andparking is a little tricky that night.
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That might be the worst night forparking if you are coming down maybe Uber
or some kind of ride share situation. Carol, is this an all year
round planning thing when it comes tothis event? Are you planning all year
round for something like this? Iam planning all your round thing like this.
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The first day of the Farmer's Marketin May I had vendors asking when
the applications would be coming out forvillage lights and anything that they should know
about it this year, just becauseit's such a great vendor event. You
come down. You can do allof your Christmas shopping. You don't have
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to go to the mall. Youcan get something that's locally made, handmade,
and meet the person who made it, which is really cool. So
it is planning starts for me inthe springtime, for sure. So as
an East Coaster, what's it liketo be in Columbus? Compare Compare the
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two. I mean, obviously Ithink it's better here Auby, but you
know, you have that unique perspectiveand I know that you know, the
East Coast is flash here and we'remore Midwestern and everything. But once you
get here, I think you discoverthat's not the case. Yeah. So
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I miss the ocean, Yeah,miss seeing the seashore and the shoreline,
and I miss like hills. It'svery flat, you could see for miles.
But the people out here are sowelcoming, so incredibly friendly and kind.
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We've built a community of just friends, and we came out here with
no family at all, just thethree of us. So we've managed to
find sort of our own little tribeof people just around the neighborhood. Everybody
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has been very, very welcoming.Was that audit first too, because I
know I've lived different places born andraised in the Midwest, though, and
especially the East Coasters, They'll think, are you for real? There's no
way someone could either be this niceor this accommodating or was that? Did
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you have difficulty believing it at first? The charm of Columbus, Yeah,
I sure did. The first timethat we walked around after we moved to
German Village, people like smile andsay hello to you. And as an
East Coaster, that is you know, that's like they've got an angle,
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right, Yeah, something or somethingweird is going on, But here people
are just like they're glad to seeyou all the time. Yeah, it's
it took a minute to get usedto it, for sure. The pace
here is slower, people walk slower, and are you okay with that?
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Or I've gotten used to it?But when I have family come in from
out of town, they are liketheir go go go, and people here
are just like a little bit yeah, like I don't you know, I
don't have to rush. I'm totallyright, you're in our area. Now
you roll with us. That's Carolross Is with this job from the German
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Village Streisle Market. It's the holidaymarket if you don't know, in German
Village during the Village Lights. It'sa part of our celebrate Columbus during the
holidays on our Live Forward, LiveExperience Columbus podcast, Carol, do you
have a favorite part of the lightsevent or just the German Village Streisle Market?
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It is it's amazing to see howmany people come into town for it.
People come in from all over.They really make a whole day out
of it, make a whole tripout of it. So it's wonderful to
see all of those people coming intothe community. And they come. If
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it's raining, they come, ifit's freezing cold, they come, if
it's warm, they come just tosee the village all up in all of
its glory. So it's a it'sa really beautiful experience. And when you're
not in German Village, where elsedo you love to go in Columbus?
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Honestly, if I can't walk there, there's not a lot of places that
I go. Yeah, I was, this is probably my third or fourth
time down in this part of townand we just go to like Kemba see
bands. Okay, so we're downstraight too far from the South End.
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Okay, in your own little worldthere in German Village? Yeah, do
you you know, we'd like toask all of our guests, especially with
our holiday series, but now thatyou've been here a little while, do
you have a favorite? You know, I realized there's German Village, But
have you gone to other places inColumbus during the holidays to experience that that
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festive part of the season. Yeah, we have done the Franklin Park.
Oh yeah, and the Christmas timeand it's really beautiful. So that's a
really fun one. The conservatory,is that okay? Just making sure.
Yeah, yep, that's a goodone. Have you done Wild Lights?
I have not? Oh you gotto Wild Lights. How would you describe
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especially German Village during the holiday season? How would you describe that to someone?
Yeah, people go all out Christmaslights, greenery, just almost every
house is decorated. You're gonna behard pressed to find a dud, so
just lots of you know, yougo and get a cup of coffee at
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wine ends or stuffs and then justwalk around the neighborhood and you can see
just all kinds of decorations and reallyjust beautiful, kind of tasteful. You're
not going to see a whole lotof like twenty foot waving inflatables. Yeah,
so just really really pretty, sortof very old world, Yeah yeah,
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kind of a vibe, Carol,I understand. There's actually a couple
of other markets that are happening inGerman Village too during this time. Yep.
There's not Your Mama's Craft Market,which is a really great one,
and they'll be inside the Schiller ParkRec Center. And then there's also the
German Village Makers Market and they areon the corner of City Park and Thurman
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And there's going to be a trolleyand a pedal cart pulling people kind of
all around. Sometimes people get stuckon Third Street and then from Third Street
to Schmidts and then they don't reallyveer off that path. So this is
a way to just get people allaround the neighborhood because it's a little bit
bigger than just that little stretch.It's hard to get me to leave Schmidt
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So and when it's not the holidaysin German Village what do you like to
do. Yeah, so we spenda lot of time at Parsons North Brewing
Company. They've been very kind tous. That's actually where our winter market
will be set up, and they'redoing a Christmas tree sale this year.
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And there's just a whole bunch ofrestaurants that are in walking distance, bars,
coffee shops, si Park, havea little picnic, grab a sandwich,
a brown bag, deli, orcat singers and just set yourself up
with a little picnic situation at thepark. The ducks watch everybody walk around.
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We just did a dog Halloween costumeraid with the cakeount which was super
fun and that was in chiller justwatching all the dogs walk around in their
costumes. It was really groovy.So that was a very cool thing.
We just got through october Fest.But as soon as patio season starts back
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up and it warms back up again, as we are always thinking about the
next season and what's coming up,there's plenty of places to go and sit
outside and just enjoy the scenery andthe food and the beer and everything that
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has our part of the town hasto offer. If someone is wanting more
on the streisole market, the holidaylights. Is there social media pages they
can see a website they can goto. Yeah, sure, so you
can go to the German Village FarmersMarket, Instagram or the German Village Society
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has a website and Instagram and Facebookas well. And we'll be just keeping
everybody up to date on lists ofvendors, chucks and all of the other
things that are going on. There'sa bunch of stuff going on in the
village that night. It's an excitingtime of the year, the holiday season
in Columbus and German Village. CarolRoss from the German Village Streisle Market with
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us as our guest this week,and thanks for your time, Thanks for
being a guest, Thank you somuch for having me absolutely happy Holidays live
on. Thanks for listening to ExperienceColumbuses Live for Live. For this podcast
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and others, go to Experiencecolumbus dotcom.
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