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By Heather
Deeley
Record-Courier staff writer
It took 200 years, but Ravenna's bicentennial celebration really takes off this
weekend - packed with parades, fireworks, concerts and trips back in time.
The event kicks off with the Community Choir's summer concert on the
steps of the First Congregational Church at 7 p.m. Friday.
On Saturday, the parade steps off at 10 a.m., with floats, period costumes, vintage cars, Riddle
hearses, and trolley cars all following the lead of Grand Marshal
"Benjamin Tappan," as portrayed by Richard Rufener, down Main Street.
Opening the ceremony at 11 a.m. will be Benjamin Tappan and Mayor Paul Jones, followed by a
Bicentennial Quilt presentation by the Calico Hearts Quilt Guild of Ravenna.
Arts, crafts, games and food booths will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. downtown. Crowds will be entertained by the music of calliope,
dulcimer, ragtime, rock, orchestra, gospel, the Ravenna High School Steel
Drum Band and others.
At 7
p.m. the festivities
continue on the Robinson Memorial Hospital grounds with a free concert and fireworks display.
The Curtis Brothers and Matt Coates with the Bluestones will perform.
On Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., residents
can take a trolley ride through time, where tour guides will point out 51
historic sites and tell the stories behind them. The tours leave Ohio Edison
downtown. Some of the points of interest include the Storrs-Brayton House,
the Cleveland Worsted Woolen Mills Redfern Plant, the Byers-DiPaola Castle, the Bostic House, the Riddle Plumbing Shop, the
International Order of Odd Fellows Hall, the Clewell-Waggoner House, the
Bigalow House, and many others.
Sunday, the community is invited to a bicentennial
worship service on the Robinson Memorial Hospital grounds at 10 a.m. The Bicentennial Choir will sing.
Again, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., arts,
crafts, games and food booths will be open downtown.
From noon
to 3
p.m., the Ravenna Antique
Dealers Association will give free appraisals on portable antiques and
collectibles on the courthouse lawn under the big top.
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