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Ohio Caverns

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We visited Ohio Caverns in May 2019. We chose the Natural Wonder Tour.

I recommend wearing raincoats and boots. The guides do provide ponchos.

We loved the rock formations and colors from the minerals.

Lots of water down there. There were water lines from past floods.

Visit Ohio Caverns.

Natural Wonder Tour Info

Historic Tour Info

Ohio Caverns is Open All Year.  We only close on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Hours

Summer Session (May 1 – September 30) : 9 am to 5 pm (Last tour starts at 5 pm)
Winter Session (January 1 – April 30; October 1 – December 31) : 10 am to 4 pm (Last tour starts at 4 pm)

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The Best Gravy

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I want my kids to know how to make the Five Mother Sauces.

We make a pretty good marinara. We do a nice blender Hollandaise.

Gravy is a necessity to learn how to make well.

It’s very versatile. It goes with meats, starches, even a soup/stew base.

Our basic easy recipe is a great starter for a flavorful gravy.

You can add herbs, wine, beer, or other ingredients to make it unique to your tastes.

I do use pan drippings from a roast meat with a fat separator, but otherwise I use good quality stock in a neat little box.

Directions:

Begin with a roux of melted fat and flour until dry and almost crispy.

Add ketchup, mustard (preferably Dijon), Worcestershire. Trust me.

Quickly add stock and whisk – or beer, wine, whatever liquid you’re making that goes with your meal. You really don’t need more than a total of 2 cups.

For a nice brown gravy, I use 1 cup beef stock and 1/2 cup chicken stock.

For poultry gravy, I use all chicken or turkey stock. I usually add some half and half to this one.

Add more liquid if it gets too thick too quickly.

The key to shiny gorgeous gravy is whisking well over low heat until thick then straining out solids and adding just a pat of butter to melt before serving.

As you become more confident, you can experiment with what works and tastes good to you.

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Gravy

Ingredients

  • 4 T unsalted butter or fat of choice
  • 1/4 c AP flour
  • 1 1/2 c stock beef, chicken, turkey, veal, veggie
  • 1 T ketchup
  • 2 t Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 t Dijon mustard
  • garlic powder to taste
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Melt butter or fat in pan.

  2. Whisk in flour until browned a bit.

  3. Whisk in stock.

  4. Whisk in ketchup, Worcestershire, mustard, and spice.

  5. Bring to boil until thickened.

  6. Add cream, milk, more stock if it becomes too thick.

  7. Strain with fine mesh sieve to remove lumps. Press with spatula to get the good stuff.

  8. Add a pat of butter for a nice shine.

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Golden Spike

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When we first arrived in Utah, we traveled to the Golden Spike national park for a re-enactment.

It was hot and dry and out in the middle of nowhere.

The kids were young, but we’ve shown them the pictures each history cycle since to refresh their memories as we learn about American history.

And then there’s an interesting story.

Golden Spike National Historic Site is open year round and receives nearly 60,000 visitors a year. Visitors come to explore the site and connect with one of the most transformational moments in our nation’s history. The most popular attractions include stepping out to the site where history was made, viewing the site’s replica steam locomotives, participating in historic re-enactments of the famous “Last Spike” ceremony and exploring the nearly 150 year-old railroad grade on the auto tours and hiking trail.

Learn more.

Hours and Re-enactments.

150th anniversary events on May 10, 2019.

The girls got their Junior Ranger badges. It’s a great way to get kids interested in history and learning.

We like hands-on history.

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Celebrating Lammas Day

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Lammastide or Lughnasadh/Lughnasa falls at the halfway point between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox.

Lammas means “loaf-mass” in Anglo-Saxon.

The focus was on either the early harvest aspect or the celebration of the Celtic god Lugh.

August 1 is a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop, which just began to be harvested.

After the grain is harvested, it is milled and baked into bread, which is then consumed. It is the cycle of the harvest come full circle.

The grain dies so that the people might live. Eating this bread, the bread of the gods, gives us life. If all this sounds vaguely Christian, it should be. In the sacrament of Communion, bread is blessed, becomes the body of God and is eaten to nourish the faithful. This Christian Mystery echoes the pagan Mystery of the Grain God. 

Lammas coincides with the feast of St. Peter in Chains, commemorating St. Peter’s miraculous deliverance from prison.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1.3.19), it is observed of Juliet, “Come Lammas Eve at night shall she [Juliet] be fourteen.” Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.

Many churches in Europe, Ireland, and the UK have lovely harvest altars, thanking God for His bounty.

We especially enjoyed visiting the Trier Cathedral Harvest Festival.

Lammas is a festival of regrets and farewells, of harvest and preserves.

  • Reflect on the year in your journal or share with others around a bonfire. Lughnasa is one of the great Celtic fire-festivals.
  • Look up the myths of any of the grain Gods and Goddesses and discuss with your kids, family, and friends. 
  • Go to a county or state fair to celebrate the end of summer, school beginning, harvest.
  • Make corn dollies, herb wreaths or garlands, bake bread.
  • Go on a nature walk and look at the changes in the trees and wildflowers.
  • Sing songs and roast food over the fire.

Robert Burns published the poem John Barleycorn in 1782, and there are various modern versions:

There were three men come out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow, John Barleycorn would die
They’ve ploughed, they’ve sown, they’ve harrowed, thrown clods upon his head
Till these three men were satisfied John Barleycorn was dead

Refrain: There’s beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass
But little Sir John, with his nut-brown bowl, proved the strongest man at last

They’ve let him lie for a long long time till the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprang up his head and so amazed them all
They’ve let him stand till midsummer’s day and he looks both pale and wan
Then little Sir John’s grown a long long beard and so become a man

{Refrain}

They’ve hired men with the sharp-edged scythes to cut him off at the knee
They’ve rolled him and tied him around the waist, treated him most barbarously
They’ve hired men with the sharp-edged forks to prick him to the heart
And the loader has served him worse than that for he’s bound him to the cart
So they’ve wheeled him around and around the field till they’ve come unto a barn
And here they’ve kept their solemn word concerning Barleycorn
They’ve hired men with the crab tree sticks to split him skin from bone
And the miller has served him worse than that for he’s ground him between two stones

And the huntsman he can’t hunt the fox nor loudly blow his horn
And the tinker he can’t mend his pots without John Barleycorn

Regrets

Think of the things you meant to do this summer or this year that did not come to fruition. You can project your regrets onto natural objects like pine cones, corn husks, or paper and throw them into the fire, releasing them.

Farewells

What or who is passing away from your life? What is over or completed? Say goodbye to it. As with regrets, you can find visual symbols and throw them into the fire. You can also bury them in the ground, perhaps in the form of flower bulbs which will manifest in a new form next spring.

Harvest

What have you harvested this year? What seeds did you plant that are sprouting? Find a visual way to represent these, perhaps creating a decoration in your house or garden to represent this harvest to you. Make a corn dolly or learn to weave grain or grass into artistic designs.

Preserves

This is also a good time for making preserves, either literally or symbolically. As you turn the summer’s fruit into jams, jellies, and chutneys for later, think about the fruits that you have gathered this year and how you can hold onto them. How can you keep them sweet in the stores of your memory?

How do you prepare your hearts for the change in season?

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Johnston Farm and Indian Agency

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One of our favorite field trips this year was Johnston Farm. We enjoyed the museum and canal boat ride.

Johnston Farm Museum

Exhibits trace the story of the Eastern Woodland Indians of Ohio and the Pickawillany village site.

We loved learning about the Native Americans of the area.

The exhibits were very respectful of and educational about how Europeans exploited the Natives.

There were several sections about Indian stereotypes throughout history and how we still exploit them today in sports and advertising. It’s so infuriating.

We learned all about Ohio canals. Then we got to ride in one!

General Harrison Canal Boat

A replica 70-foot-long canal boat used for transportation of passengers and cargo in the 19th century.

Adena Indian Mound and Earthwork

Other Sites

  • Farmhouse – 1815
  • Double Pen Barn – 1808
  • Springhouse – 1815
  • Cider House – 1828

Visit Johnston Farm and Indian Agency.

Hours of Operation

April, May and September, October:  9 AM to 2 PM — Monday – Friday
June, July, and August:  10 AM to 5 PM — Thursday and Friday
and Noon to 5 PM — Saturday and Sunday
Closed Holidays and November through March

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Nonviolence Unit Study

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We see a lot of violence on the news: in print media, on TV, online, and on social media.

We might be desensitized to violence since we’ve been viewing it all our lives. But our kids might and should be disturbed by it.

It’s too often we see news about a school shooting.

It’s too frequently we hear about immigrants being incarcerated.

The jails are flooded with minor infractions.

It’s too much to hear about the many women and children assaulted.

Workers being exploited for too little pay.

Civil rights being violated.

I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans – there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.

~Adam Yauch

We have to expand our learning and our teaching about nonviolence and human rights. It’s a huge problem when nothing improves or changes. Statistics show that many people don’t view rape as assault or crime. That’s scary.

We have to talk to our kids about consent and violence and guns.

Don’t mistreat someone who has mistreated you. But try to earn the respect of others, and do your best to live at peace with everyone.

Romans 12:17-18

What do we teach our children about violence, protest, and injustice?

Do we have a voice, power, desire to make a difference?

It’s important that we teach our kids nonviolence in a fallen world.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

~Alice Walker

I love the movies and books about aliens or supernatural forces wanting to communicate peace to us, the lame and broken humans.

God blesses those people who make peace.

Matthew 5:9

Sometimes, it takes fiction to make us realize how much we’re hurting each other.

It’s never us/them, either/or, other, or any other duality thinking. We’re all in this together.

It can be both/and.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world’s violence.

~Stanley Hauerwas

Nonviolence starts with our parenting and teaching styles.

Don’t tell me to “do my research” or that I’m a victim because I am anti-gun.

My eldest daughter earned her sharpshooter award in Civil Air Patrol.

My husband earned expert in his weapons qualification with the Air Force.

I have gone to multiple gun ranges indoor and outdoor and used different weapons.

I know what it feels like. I know the thrill and exhilaration and power that rushes through the body as the gun fires off rounds at a paper target.

That scares me. I never want to own a weapon with that kind of power. I never want to point a weapon at another human.

We stress cooperation, kindness, patience, love, and compromise in our home.

We teach respect and dignity for everyone.

Love your enemies, and be good to everyone who hates you. Ask God to bless anyone who curses you, and pray for everyone who is cruel to you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, don’t stop that person from slapping you on the other cheek. If someone wants to take your coat, don’t try to keep back your shirt. Give to everyone who asks and don’t ask people to return what they have taken from you. Treat others just as you want to be treated.

Luke 6: 27-31

What is nonviolence?

When the hyphen is not used, it often signifies the mere absence of physical violence, or “strategic nonviolence” in contrast to what is called “principled nonviolence”— the presence of concern for the opponent as person.

“Nonviolence” is almost a translation of the Sanskrit term ahimsa. The actual translation of ahimsa would be more like “the power that comes into effect when the desire to harm is eliminated.”

Pacifism: the belief that any violence, including war, is unjustifiable under any circumstances, and that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means.

People use the term “nonviolence” in three different ways:

  1. The mere absence of physical violence. In this usage, even passively allowing oneself to be abused can be called “non-violence,” while Gandhi actually considered it a form of violence! This leads to a lot of confusion (“nonviolence didn’t work against Hitler”).
  2. The avoidance of recourse to physical violence as a strategy, without reference to a philosophical or spiritual foundation for that avoidance. Often this nonviolence will then 3 be conditional (“If it doesn’t work we can go back to violence.”) The Concise OED is referring to passivity or strategic nonviolence when it defines “nonviolent” as “not using violence.”
  3. A positive desire for the well-being of others, even — or especially — when opposing their actions and policies. Just as peace is more than the absence of war, principled nonviolence is more than the refusal to use physical violence. Indeed it has much more to do with a vision of what one will do, namely “cooperate with good” and bring creative forces into play. It is this principled nonviolence that was lived and used by such role models as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, and many others. Gandhi felt that there is no situation in which, when used well, it would not help to resolve the situation at hand and in the process build a better world. ~Metta Center

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one’s standard should be consistent.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote that the philosophy and practice of nonviolence has six basic elements.

Principle One: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people

  • It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
  • It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
  • It is always persuading the opponent of the righteousness of your cause.
  • It is only passive in its non-aggression toward its enemy.

Principle Two: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding

  • The end of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
  • The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of The Beloved Community.

Principle Three: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people

  • Nonviolence recognizes that evil doers are also victims and are not evil people.
  • The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil not people.

Principle Four: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform

  • Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
  • Nonviolence accepts violence if necessary, but will never inflict it.
  • Nonviolence willingly accepts the consequences of its act.
  • Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous education and transforming possibilities.
  • Suffering has the power to convert the enemy when reason fails.

Principle Five: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate

  • Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body.
  • Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.
  • Nonviolent love gives willingly knowing that the return might be hostility.
  • Nonviolent love is active, not passive.
  • Nonviolent love is unending in its ability to forgive in order to restore community.
  • Nonviolent love does not sink to the level of the hater.
  • Love for the enemy is how we demonstrate love for ourselves.
  • Love restores community and resists injustice.
  • Nonviolence recognizes the fact that all life is interrelated.

Principle Six: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice

  • The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win
  • Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.

excerpt from The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition.

Try to live at peace with everyone! Live a clean life. If you don’t, you will never see the Lord. Make sure that no one misses out on God’s wonderful kindness.

Hebrews 12:14-15

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry. 

~Ava DuVernay

We use lots of books and videos, followed by discussion. I love the questions and conversations sparked by great authors and movies.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

~Mahatma Gandhi

If you are a Christian and own guns or believe that Christians should and can own guns and use them against humans, how do you reconcile that? How do you explain this decision to your young children?

“You cannot be both a Christian and participate in a gun culture,” according to James E. Atwood, pastor emeritus of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Arlington, Va., and author of America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé.

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Noteable Topics

  • Quakers
  • Sophie Scholl
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Mother Teresa
  • Walter Wink
  • Tank Man (Tiananmen Square Massacre)
  • Joan Baez
  • Helen Prejean
  • Shane Claiborne
  • A great list of pacifists
  • War
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Abortion
  • Incarceration
  • Death penalty/capital punishment
  • Gun control
  • Racism
  • Immigration

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Movies

Activities and Resources

It’s important to understand history and the effects of violence.

We’ve visited Flanders. We’ve visited Dachau. We’ve gone to the Freedom Museum.

If we don’t know or understand history, how can we make changes?

Essential Question:

Is it possible for nonviolent direct action to transform a community?

Try to get along and live peacefully with each other.

2 Corinthians 13:11

It’s important to teach kids in an age-appropriate way about human dignity, immigration, death penalty laws, incarceration laws and regulations, sexual assault, peaceful protest, injustice, racism, sexism, childism, ageism, discrimination.

Raise kids to be world changers.

We all are connected. I am mentally exhausted from all the death and destruction.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. ~Obi Wan Kenobi

“Put away your [gun],” Jesus told him. “Those who use the sword will die by the [gun].”

Matthew 26:52

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Our Curriculum for 2019-2020

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I have reached the apex of homeschooling where my kids are pretty much independent learners!

I highly recommend the books by Louise Bates Ames. A good guide to follow are the What Your ?-Grader Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

I don’t have little kids anymore!

More and more, I just stand back in awe and watch them create and perform.

We love learning and exploring together!

My eldest daughter is 18 and beginning her first official year of college! She has a part time job as a bank teller.

My middle girls are doing 8th grade work.

Tori is 13 and doing Greek 2 and Katie is 12 and is continuing German.

We’re looking into private art lessons for Katie. She does fall soccer. She loves to cook and draw and create.

Tori practices weekly aerial arts at a local gym.

My son is doing 5th grade work.

Alex is 9 and does fall and spring baseball and weekly ninja classes. He won 3rd place recently in a ninja competition!

We’re in year 4 of our history cycle.

We still do lots of morning read alouds together for Bible, church history, natural history, Life of Fred, world and American history, and literature.

I can’t believe how time has flown!

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Homeschool Schedule with Teens

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Life has seemed to slow down lots now that my kids are older.

When the kids were little, it seemed like I constantly ran, was perpetually exhausted.

It’s so much easier now. But sometimes, it seems so difficult too.

We protect our time and space for peace.

Each child has only one or two activities so we’re not overscheduled.

My eldest daughter is starting college and does private art lessons.

My middle daughter practices aerial gymnastics and makes jewelry.

My youngest daughter does fall soccer and art lessons.

My son does fall and spring baseball and weekly ninja classes. He’s not quite a teen yet, but he’s sure not my little boy anymore.

They’re all so independent now. Time slips through my fingers.

I try to wake up early to make a hot breakfast, clean the kitchen, start laundry, get my writing completed for the day.

Bedtime is often haphazard. There is seldom snuggling, stories, and prayers anymore. Often, we still do reading and devotions after dinner on the sofas after evenings walks and before wind down. But something definitely is lost and I miss it.

I try really hard to do tuck-ins but it’s often spurned these days. I’m often ready for bedtime and sleeptime before they are.

The best times are when we gather to listen to owls or tree frogs, watch for backyard bats, notice the moon and stars and clouds, have a heron sighting, taste a fresh tomato and herbs that we grew, go giddy over first snowflakes, rolling thunder, the smell of rain on a hot summer day, the intricacies of a perfectly formed veiny golden leaf or butterfly.

I refuse to curate perfection for social media or have a showroom house.

I refuse to give up ties to Nature.

We cycle with the seasons.

We seldom set alarm clocks. We’re not rushed. We flow.

There are some things we do year-round for continuity.

It’s just good to be flexible.

Our Schedule with Teens:

In summer, we’re at play.

We sleep late, stay up late with the sunshine.

We eat breakfast or brunch whenever we get up, usually between 8 and 9. The kids pack themselves picnic lunches and hike into the woods. We have family dinners outside on the deck if it’s cool enough.

We catch up on Netflix shows.

We enjoy observing the hummingbirds and woodpeckers and other critters that come to our backyard feeders.

The kids often swim down the street with their friend at his pool. We play with water balloons and water guns.

They go on bike rides or rollerblading.

Boredom is a good thing and sparks imagination and creativity.

We look at the night sky. We watch thunderstorms.

I want to teach them a lifetime of wonder.

In fall, we begin a new school cycle.

We read together every morning after breakfast.

They complete their lessons and have the afternoons mostly to themselves to do what they want.

We cook more with cooler weather. It’s fun trying new recipes.

We go on nature hikes to look at leaves.

Learning is a lifestyle for us, but we are more focused and scheduled in fall and winter.

Family dinners are often rushed, later, or on the go with soccer and baseball season.

We enjoy celebrating the harvest festivals. Fall is a magical time.

In winter, we’re at rest.

While the world seems to go to sleep and become dormant, we snuggle up indoors with candles and blankets.

We read more and watch educational shows.

We practice Hygge.

We still go outside on walks to look at nature changes.

We make soups and stews and bake a lot.

Family dinners are more of an event. We have the time to be more elaborate.

We celebrate feasts and festivals.

In spring, we awaken.

We stretch towards the warm sun like flowers blooming after the winter.

We’re finishing up our school lessons for the year.

We look forward to summer while we watch the world wake up and be reborn.

We greet each new bud and shade of green with awe and joy.

We’re ready for playtime again.

How does your family flow?

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Serpent Mound Historical Site

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The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio.

Researchers have at different times attributed construction of the mound to two different prehistoric indigenous cultures. Originally thought to be Adena in origin, scholars now believe the mound was built by members of the Fort Ancient culture around 1070 CE. More recent research places the mound’s construction at around 300 BCE, once again suggesting Adena construction. Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy in the world.

There’s a great little museum about the Indigenous culture and Mound artifacts and history.

View from observation tower of the serpent coils:

There’s a lovely little woods path near the river and then we found the end of the serpent’s tail:

There are several burial mounds nearby:

There are Homeschool Days throughout the year.

Visit the Serpent Mound.

Hours

Serpent Mound is open daily, year round, from 9:00 am to dusk.
Winter Warning: Park roads are not plowed. During snowy or icy conditions, the park is open to pedestrian traffic only and parking fee is waived.

Museum Hours

Jan-Feb: Closed
March: Open weekends only 10am-4pm
April: Open daily 10am-4pm
May-Oct: Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm; Fri-Sat 9am-6pm Sun 9am-5pm 
Nov- the weekend before Christmas: Open weekends only 10-4pm

Parking Fees

$8/Vehicle
$4/Motorcycle
$15 Annual Parking Pass
Fees waived for Arc of Appalachia Members & Ohio History Connection Members

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Oola for Christians

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I first met the Oola guys at an essential oil convention many years ago.

I was super impressed by them and their book and their message.

I am so please to see their ideas become so popular and spark the Oola movement around the world!

Oola co-authors want to help people live the life God designed for them.

The Oola Guys: Troy Amdahl (OolaGuru) and Dave Braun (OolaSeeker), renowned experts in a proper life balance, have been traveling the highways of America (they’ve visited every state in the US except Hawaii and Alaska) in their 1970 VW surf bus covered with hand-written dreams on colorful Oola stickers placed there by people who are putting their dreams into action and are ready to live the OolaLife (they say the van is covered with twenty-five layers of stickers!). It’s a powerful, yet simple message that has captured almost one million Oola fans on social media (when they host an event, the line is wrapped around the building).

But it’s not easy trying to live up to your true potential when life gets in the way. It’s difficult to see the greatness within you when life is busy and out of balance.

That’s where the Oola guys come in.

What is Oola? Its origins come from the expression “ooh-la la!” and is a “state of awesomeness.” What started out in 1997 as a small group of buddies meeting once a year at the Hard Rock in Vegas to set goals for the future has now become Oola, a nationwide phenomenon and a dynamic movement.

Now, co-authors Troy Amdahl and Dave Braun are releasing Oola For Christians: Find Balance in An Unbalanced World.

“When your life is balanced and growing, you are living the OolaLife,” says Amdahl. “You were created to live that life – you were designed by God for greatness! Before you were even born, God placed within you a special gift that no one else has and a purpose that no one else can fulfill.” 

The Oola principles incorporate Biblical teachings into practical, effective platforms to help readers overcome stress and create the awesome life they were meant to have. The book details how to avoid the 7 OolaBlockers that prevent people from accomplishing their goals and demonstrates how to apply the 7 OolaAccelerators that propel people forward toward their greatest potential.

Plus, readers will learn how to create balance and fulfillment in their lives by optimizing the 7 F’s of Oola: Fitness, Finance, Family, Field (career), Faith, Friends, and Fun.

“Oola helps strengthen your faith in Christ,” adds Braun. “No matter what you are going through, you will get through it because God has your back. Choose prayer over worry and stay faithful. Trust that God has a purpose for your plan.”

  • Young Living Convention (July 17-19, 2019) – both Troy and Dave will be attending/speaking to crowds of fans! (They are celebrities among the essential oil distributors and 30,000 will be in attendance this year)
  • This is the third book in the OolaLife series, which has sold over 125,000 copies and collected over one million fans on social media
  • Christians need to be strengthened because as a culture we are losing our way – our faith is weak, our hope is shaky, and our Christian principles are constantly tested.
  • 2019 Oola Dream Tour, stopping in Lansing, MI; New Orleans, LA; Salt Lake City, UT; Mexico City; Houston, TX; and Las Vegas, NV. Check www.oolalife.com for more dates!

About the Authors

Troy Amdahl (Phoenix) is a native of Rochester, MN. The “OolaGuru” graduated cum laude from Northwestern Health Sciences University, then became a devoted husband and father (has 4 kids), and a successful businessman who travels the world, retired debt-free at 42, and an Ironman triathlete. Once a year, he and a group of friends―including Dave, the “OolaSeeker” who sought him out as a mentor―would meet to set goals and find balance and growth in the key areas of life―the synthesis of which became the philosophy and movement that is Oola.

Dave Braun (Salt Lake City) is a native of Napoleon, ND. Dave found material success at a young age while under the mentorship of Troy who taught him how to live the Oola principles of balance, but eventually drifted from them and found himself bankrupt, divorced (with 5 kids), disconnected, and living in a motel. At rock bottom, he sought out Troy, knowing he needed help to get his Oola back. The “OolaSeeker” vowed that if this worked, he would share Oola with the world. It did, and today, he and Troy travel the country in a 1970 VW surf bus, speaking to groups, collecting dreams, and helping people find balance, purpose, and growth through the 7 F’s of Oola.

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