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Insiders Guide to Columbus

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About Me

The city's only national travel guide, by Shawnie Kelley (350 pages). Columbus, Ohio's capital and the nation's fifteenth largest city, has a small town atmosphere with big city culture, cosmopolitan shopping and top-notch dining. Its geographical location, economic diversity, competitive cost-of-living, and college-town spirit makes Columbus the third fastest growing metro area in the Midwest and a very attractive city in which to start a business, pursue higher education, or raise a family. Columbus's only national travel makes discovering the "Discovery City" a lot of fun and can be purchased at all major bookstores, Amazon.com & directly from the publisher: globepequot.com.

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My Interests

Wining & Dining, Arts, Music, Theatre, Parks & Recreation, Neighborhood news & events, and crazy for FESTIVALS: Arts Festival, Asian Festival, Circleville Pumpkin Show, Dublin Irish Festival, Festival Latino, Greek Festival,India Festival, International Festival, Italian Festival, Jazz & Rib Fest, Ohio State Fair, Oktoberfest, Pride Festival, Renaissance Festival, Rose Festival.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with interesting ideas or suggestions. I teach a Discover Columbus course at UA Lifelong learning and also speak about Columbus (among other travel topics) at a variety of events & venues. Email comments to the author at [email protected]

Music:

COMFEST and all sorts of local music

Movies:

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the following movies were filmed partly or entirely in Columbus and various locations around Ohio:The Deer Hunter (1978) Brubaker (1980) A Christmas Story (1983) Teachers (1984) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Eight Men Out (1988) Rain Man (1988) Major League (1989) Tango & Cash (1989) City of Hope (1991) Little Man Tate (1991) Airborne (1993) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Milk Money (1994) Air Force One (1997) Men in Black (1997) Traffic (2000) Antwone Fisher (2002) Spider-Man 3 (2006)

Books:

Insiders' Guide to Columbus can be purchased directly from the publisher, Globe Pequot Press (GlobePequot.com) and is carried at most local bookstores ($18.95) and on Amazon.Also by Shawnie Kelley: It Happened on Cape Cod: A Collection of 26 short stories from throughout the Cape's History.COMING SOON: It Happened in Ohio

Heroes:

Dreamers and doers. Anyone with a closet full of 'adjectives'.