Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Columbus to Cleveland.

This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 71 north from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio. It offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and especially stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.

Our route starts in the Columbus area and proceeds north past a series of small to medium-sized towns. Well pass Westerville, named by an Ohio guide as the most straight-laced town in the state. Delaware was once home to the Big Ear, a radio telescope that listened for radio signals from outer space and Sunbury, home of the Sunbury Erratic. That might sound like something from outer space, but an erratic is just a big rock, in this case dislodged by glaciers from Canada and pushed south to Ohio.

Well pass signs for the Malabar Farm and Inn, once a gathering place for the rich and famous. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married there. Well also cross US 30, the old Lincoln Highway, Americas first paved coast-to-coast road. Well tell the story of how it came to be.

Finally, well approach Cleveland, perhaps America's quintessential rust belt city. During the years of industrialization, Cleveland flew high. At one time there were more millionaires in Cleveland than any American city. But as the nation shifted from its manufacturing base, Cleveland fell hard. We enter a city that today struggles to redefine itself for a new era.

Follow I-71 into downtown Cleveland and you'll be within blocks of the Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame. Cleveland claims to be the birthplace of Rock and Roll, not because the music originated here but because this is where a disk jockey first used the term, "Rock and Roll." Well tell about the worlds first Rock and Roll concertheld in Clevelandand how it didnt conclude peacefully.

This tour covers ... Exit 121 Polaris Pkwy,Exit 151 Mt. Gilead,Exit 176 Mansfield/Wooster,Exit 204 Lodi/Wooster

• Price: $ 9.00
• Duration: 1 hour 20 min
• Publisher: Museum of the Open Road
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• Voice(s): Bruce T. Marshall
• Subject Type: Driving tour
• Language: English
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