Malabar Farm’s Candlelight Tours offer guests a chance to stroll through “The Big House,” cheerfully decorated in holiday garb.
Louis Bromfield
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Ohio Creativity Trail showcases Malabar Farm
LUCAS — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has announced that Malabar Farm State Park and Barkcamp State Park have been selected as featured sites on the newly launched “Ohio Creativity Trail.” This exciting initiative, part of America 250-Ohio’s Trails & Tales program, was unveiled recently at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. The […]
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Oak Hill Terrace: Richland County Historical Society ‘Restoring the View’
MANSFIELD — Imagine a warm summer evening spent watching the Mansfield Shakespeare Company perform in an outdoor setting with the historic Oak Hill Cottage in the background. Or perhaps gathering to watch the downtown Mansfield fireworks on New Year’s Eve at midnight from the hill there that overlooks the city. How about just a family […]
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Ghosts of Christmas Past take over Oak Hill Cottage on Dec. 7
MANSFIELD — At twilight on one evening in early December each year, Oak Hill Cottage becomes a scene of chaos as former inhabitants from ages past are pressed into service as tour guides. This year the Ghosts of Christmas Past takes place on Saturday, Dec. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at 310 Springmill St. […]
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GALLERY: A Saturday at Louis Bromfield’s former home at Malabar Farm
Spring was well underway Saturday at Malabar Farm State Park, the former home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and conservationist Louis Bromfield in southeast Richland County. Located at 4050 Bromfield Road near Lucas, the sprawling 850-acre state park and working farm has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. Bromfield was born […]
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ODNR opens new Malabar Farm State Park Visitor Center exhibit
New exhibits showcasing conservationist Louis Bromfield’s unconventional farming practices are now on display at Malabar Farm State Park.
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Mansfield’s eccentric “witch” topic of new book, CRF museum talk on Oct. 16
LOUDONVILLE—The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum kicks off the next Speaker Series by welcoming back historian and author Mark S. Jordan on Oct. 16 to discuss the topic of his new book The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise. The frontier town of Mansfield had already had its share of eccentrics, including mystic/businessman […]
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ODNR seeks bids for Malabar Farm restaurant
LUCAS — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will be seeking bids for an operator of the Malabar Farm restaurant. The business is located in a structure on the property of Malabar Farm State Park in southern Richland County. ODNR plans to publicly bid the Malabar Farm Restaurant operation in the coming months with the […]