 
Fascinating Ohio is a desktop day-by-day calendar that looks at, celebrates, and sometimes finds the humor in all-things-Ohio.
Price $15.99
365 page tear-off calendar
Begins on any month of the year
Desktop calendar base
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Get a Fascinating Ohio calendar of your own:
- Celebrate your love for your home state.
- Introduce a new friend, neighbor or co-worker to the wonders of Ohio.
- Makes a perfect work or teacher appreciation gift.
- Makes a great gift for friends or relatives who have left the Buckeye State.
A sampling of Ohio facts:
- Ohio cranks out singers: from Dean Martin to Rascal Flatts, Doris Day to Chrissie Hynde.
- Ohio once produced more fishing hooks than any place in the world.
- Ohio was the first state to enact laws protecting working women.
- African-American singers, writers and inventors have long called Ohio home.
Did you know:
- Birth of rock and roll? Cleveland.
- Where are the roots of jazz, rhythm-and-blues, funk, rock and hip-hop? Cincinnati.
- What city became a Petri dish for a national steel industry? Cleveland.
- Soap and cleaning products? Cincinnati.
- Birth of rubber? Akron.
- American research and development? Cleveland.
- Where is the national invention museum? Akron.
- Machine tool development? Cincinnati.
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Despite three major American metropolitan areas surrounding cities that are rich with culture and arts, Ohio has long been considered a backwater and pop culture wasteland. The truth about Ohio is anything but that and far, far from its image on the national and world stage. Ohio has always been a crossroads state with broad swaths of Americans coming and going from one place to another, often if not usually through Ohio, sometimes sticking around, sometimes only pausing before moving onward to other cities and states. And it's because of Ohio’s role as a junction state during many of the nation's greatest migrations of the 19th and 20th Centuries that American history, music, the arts and popular culture took root and flourished.
Great American writers have lived in this state -- Mark Twain loved Cincinnati and learned the discipline of writing in Cincinnati when, as a 19-year-old Sam Clemons, he stepped off a train from Indianapolis on a fall day in 1856 and suffered through a brutal Ohio winter. Home to guitar-god Peter Frampton -- the Indian Hill suburb of Cincinnati -- and former home of lesser-known 80s music icon Ric Ocasek -- suburban Cleveland -- the state spins out a staggering number of musicians. Many have left a lasting mark on the world stage: Bootsy Collins, Chrissie Hynde, Ronnie Isley, Dwight Yoakam, James Brown, John Legend, LA Reid and many others.
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