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Loveland, Ohio – The City of Loveland is proud to present the Rails Trails & Ales Festival. This new three-day event will begin on Friday, September 6 and run through Sunday, September 8, with the return of the Loveland Art Show in Nisbet Park. Come out for a weekend packed full of musical performances, shopping, food, and art.
Carras family in Loveland Stage Company’s “Mamma Mia” which opens August 15. Seated Noah Carras. (l-r) Elizabeth Carras and Betsy Carras, English teacher at Mason City Schools.
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland Stage Company’s “Mamma Mia” opens August 16 and runs through the 25th. The musical revolves around the popular music of ABBA but the heart of the storyline is about family. And family ties are found throughout the talented cast.
Ava Swearingen plays the role of Sophie, desperately trying to find her “real” father. Ava’s mother, Bobbie Jo is in the ensemble.
Betsy Carras (pictured above), an English teacher in Mason City schools, is joined in the cast by her two children Elizabeth and Noah.
Lee Vest, cast as Pepper, is joined by his dad Dave who is working on set construction
Artistic Director and set Designer Deirdre Dyson is joined by her husband Dick, who is the light designer.
Steve and Theresa Kovacs are the co-producers of this production.
The production opens August 15 and will continue through August 25. Showtimes are August 15, 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 730 p.m. and 3 p.m. on August 18, 24 (with an ASL presentation) and 25.
All tickets are $20 and can be purchased at http://lovelandstagecompany.org or by calling 513-443-4572. The theatre is located at 11 S. 2nd St. 9Rt. 48), Loveland OH 45140.
Photo by Sam Smith
In these two LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV videos, you can watch from the floor level of the Xavier University Cintas Center as the Seniors of the 2019 Loveland High School Class of 2019 enter for their commencement exercise and leave as distinguished graduates who have successfully completed their course of study. [Sunday May 26, 2019]
The music was provided by a full string/brass orchestra of Loveland non-seniors, directed by Geoff Miller.
Also take a look at these photos from the ceremony by Loveland photographer, Sam Smith:
Photo essay: Loveland says goodbye to class of 2019
Loveland, Ohio – Here is a new photograph from resident Joseph Timmerman.
‘Liiife’ is within the borders of this black and white double exposure. I used Ilford HP5 Plus film when shooting these two photos — Laine’s face and a tree in my backyard — which share a single exposure. When I put the roll of film in my camera, I wanted to capture 24 portraits, underexposed in studio lighting, to fill the roll. Then, I chose to reel it back in to the point where the first exposure returned to the beginning, and capture 24 nature/lifestyle photos to randomly share a place on the film with the original portraits. The overarching risk factor of losing some personal pictures was left behind after developing the film and seeing what had come to life in the process.
– Joseph Timmerman
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When: Saturday, September 22, 2018 (11 AM – 5 PM)
Where: Main Street, historic Milford, Ohio 45150
Art Affaire is a juried outdoor show that features art and fine craft. The emphasis is on original work, both in concept and execution, by artists working in the following mediums: clay/ceramics; digital art; drawing; fiber art; glass; jewelry; leather; metalwork; mixed media; painting; photography; paper/print making; sculpture; wearable art; wood; other.
June Pfaff Daley wins Milford’s Art Affaire Poster Image Competition
—Winning Image Will Support 13th Annual Art Affaire Promotion—
Milford, Ohio—May 24, 2018—The Greater Milford Area Historical Society (GMAHS) and poster competition sponsor, the City of Milford, are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Art Affaire Poster Image competition. June Pfaff Daley of Pleasant Ridge (Cincinnati) created the winning poster and will be awarded $1,000 for her entry.
Daley’s “The Promont Art Cart” image features a Promont steeple-inspired umbrella that shades a whimsical old-time cart peddling a variety of creative wares and entertainment. The mixed-media work includes vintage catalog and music papers, various trim pieces and embroidery.
The nine artists that entered this year’s competition included: Kate Albert (Milford); Chris Clements (Milford); June Pfaff Daley (Cincinnati); Marian Fisher (Liberty Township); Joyce Grothaus (Milford); Scott Hempleman (Cincinnati); Ann Huddleston (Cincinnati); Bobbi Thies (Milford); and Dee Turner (Milford).
The Historical Society would like to thank this year’s judges: Michael Doss, city manager, City of Milford; Fred Albrecht, mayor, City of Milford; and Carl Samson – an internationally acclaimed portrait artist, figurative and plein-air landscape painter, based in Cincinnati and residing in historic South Milford.
“GMAHS is proud of the response to its Art Affaire poster competition,” says Suzette Albrecht, GMAHS board member and poster competition coordinator for Art Affaire. “In its third year, the program has gained momentum and the posters are becoming a collector’s item. It will be exciting to see how the competition evolves, as each year will bring something new for the collector.
GMAHS will use the winning image to create promotional materials for Art Affaire, including the collectible 20”x30” poster, which will be available in July. Posters will cost $10 and will be available for purchase at Promont, 906 Main Street, Milford, Ohio (open most Sunday’s 1-4 PM); and at Row House Gallery and Custom Framing located at 211 Main Street, historic Milford. Row House is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM. Posters will also be available during the 13th Annual Art Affaire, which will be held on Saturday, September 22, 11 AM to 5 PM on Main Street in Historic Milford.
Art Affaire is presented by the Greater Milford Area Historical Society in association with Lykins Energy Solutions with major sponsorship from Proforma Albrecht & Company, City of Milford; D.E.R. Development, and Jeff Wyler Automotive Family. Other contributors include Accounting Plus LLC, Miami Township, and Park National Bank. The event is a key fundraiser for GMAHS.
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Whistle Stop Clay Works (WSCW) is hosting its first annual Pottery Affaire on Saturday, June 9th from 11am to 4pm. The show features unique, hand-crafted functional and sculptural pottery by local artisans. The show is designed to be an intimate gathering, which allows people to engage and interact with artists in an authentic and personal way. The show, happening by the beautiful O’Bannon Creek, highlights a wide variety of ceramic artists, each expressing themselves differently through their work. In addition, various artists will be demonstrating how they create their works of art using a variety of hand building techniques or the potters wheel. There will even be a vintage kick wheel available, so the public can try their hand making a pot.
Student-artists from LECC, LPS and LES created work that was on display for the community at Loveland Art Studios on Main in December 2017.
Loveland, Ohio – Student-artists at Loveland Early Childhood Center (LECC), Loveland Primary School (LPS) and Loveland Elementary School (LES) took center stage in December at Loveland Art Studios on Main for the second annual Loveland Winter Art Show.
“It was a huge turnout of students, families and community members,” said LES Art Teacher Jeff Flaig who helped organize the exhibit along with LECC Art Teacher John Hentz and LPS Art Teacher Kayla McClary. “My favorite part of the event is always seeing student artwork displayed from floor to ceiling and how amazing and colorful everything looks. Seeing students and parents light up at the sight of the work makes the whole event worthwhile.
“We also want to give a special thanks to Shawn Custis for welcoming our schools and community into his building for this event. It’s amazing to see student work displayed in this professional art environment.”
Willie Lutz is a student at Ohio State and a former writer for Loveland Magazine. He has provided these links for folks who want to support the victims of Puerto Rico’s devastation, and the deadliest shooting in US history occurring last night in Las Vegas.
by Willie Lutz,
It’s been a minute, aye? I’ve been more than a little tied up with school, I’ve been working on music constantly, all while writing for both Scarlet & Game and Pippen Ain’t Easy.
So, on what I’ll consider to be one of the most gut-punching days in recent memory, with a nasty cocktail of Puerto Rico’s devastation, the deadliest shooting in US history occurring last night in Las Vegas, and the complete lack-of-confidence I feel in the people running our country to do anything about anything in particular, I need to take some time and talk about Tom Petty… because he wasn’t one to stand for any of that shit.
So, here I am, sitting in my room, wearing my David Bowie t-shirt (another hero), and spinning that debut record with the Heartbreakers, and fittingly I’m heartbroken. Tom Petty will live on forever, because his music is undeniably going to outlive me, and outlive the generations to follow; he’s a titan, an icon, and a hero.
Tom Petty died today at the age of 66. That sucks.
It’s kind of hard to recall everything Tom Petty means and has meant to a 21-year-old, life-long dreamer.
When you’re a kid, you’re obviously very impressionable, and for me, what my parents played in the car is a lot of what I’ve become. With my mom, we listened to a lot of Phil Collins and Fleetwood Mac. With dad, you could hardly go a day without hearing the Who or Elvis Costello.
However, there was this quirkily-voiced guy who really introduced me to the way a hook sounds. See, my dad was sort-of old school in the age of the CD; he’d burn about 15 songs onto a CD, which would turn into this crazy catalog of mix-tapes. I’d estimate about 90% of the mix-tapes possessed the quirky voice.
So, eventually I catalogued some of the lyrics, and while my brother and I sat in the back seat on the way to a bonfire at one of their friends’ house (I couldn’t have been more than five or six), the lyric, “awh yeah, awwll right, shake it easy bayybay, make it last all night,” stuck in the back of my brain… and it stuck in the back of my brain for good.
Years later, probably right around the time I started high school, I emerged from a long phase where I’d only been listening to stuff from the pop-punk factory (see Green Day and Fall Out Boy), dabbled with rap (Eminem and Kanye West), and found a home in rock’n’roll.
This metastasized in numerous Pandora stations, where I learned all the classic songs I’d known nothing and everything about; those songs from my dad’s mix-tapes creeped back into my life. Among those songs, I found one of my all-time favorite cuts, “American Girl”.
I set Petty aside until I was about 15, where he found me, lifted me, and helped propel me to be a lot of what I am today.
It was here where I started learning to play guitar, in a high school class, from a teacher who clearly (insert F-bomb) loved music in a lot of the same ways I did. It was here I learned the first song I learned (it’s the first song everybody learns on guitar… credit this note to Mr. Win Butler) “Free Fallin’”. A simple tune, but nevertheless completely and totally profound.
My teenage brain was driven to seek out more of Petty’s music, because the way such simple, brilliant lyrics could create these perfect rock-pop hybrids.
So, when I go home and tell my parents that we’re learning Tom Petty songs in school, being like the coolest parents in the world, they insisted I listen to Damn the Torpedoes, because I was listening to a lot of John Mayer and the two kind-of make sense in terms of taste pairings.
I go on YouTube. Then I listen to Damn the Torpedoes. And from there, my mind is blown. Never knew you could kick off an album with “Refugee” and “Louisiana Rain”, but it turns out it’s like best way to do an album.
All of the sudden, I’m one of ten guys walking around the hallways of high school humming the lyrics to, “You Don’t Know How It Feels” having never consumed a drug… and I felt cool as hell, because I got to know about something no one else was doing.
I took some time off from Mr. Petty, until a few years later (we’re talking like 17), I found out my favorite band (Foo Fighters) do a cover of Petty’s “Breakdown”, so I listened to that… and then it was on.
Petty entered cardiac arrest early in the morning of October 2, 2017, and died later that night at a hospital in Santa Monica, California. Source Wikipedia
I don’t think I’ve made a playlist in the last four years that didn’t include some Tom Petty cut; his music is so unanimously lovable, but so personal that it fits any moment in the world.
Hell, one of the first records I ever purchased on vinyl was the first record he’d done with the Heartbreakers back in 1976 and there’s not a bad song on it. So many great songs on that thing. It starts with “Rockin’ Around With You”, it stabs you with “Breakdown”, ravages you with “Mystery Man” and then teleports you to a half-drunken July night with “American Girl”. I bought it brand-new (unfashionable for 2015) from Everybody’s Records in Cincinnati on my first college winter break as a Christmas gift to myself.
Four times in the last two years, I’ve had a chance to see Tom Petty in one form or another, or at least he’s been close enough to where I thought about it. One time last summer at Bunbury Music Festival, where he performed with his first band, Mudcrutch. Then, he played Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus this summer with the Heartbreakers, but the tour was a little out of my budget.
I got the chance to sing-along to a Petty song once, when The Shins hit an “American Girl” cover this summer at Lollapalooza, which one of my favorite moments in life ever, but it was perfect, because shortly there after, Arcade Fire kicked my dancing shoes to smithereens. I can’t help but know “American Girl” made the air in Chicago a little lighter, and brought that crowd a little closer.
I got the chance to sing-along to a Petty song once, when The Shins hit an “American Girl” cover this summer at Lollapalooza, which one of my favorite moments in life ever, but it was perfect, because shortly there after, Arcade Fire kicked my dancing shoes to smithereens. I can’t help but know “American Girl” made the air in Chicago a little lighter, and brought that crowd a little closer.
And it’s only been a few months since then.
So, here I am, sitting in my room, wearing my David Bowie t-shirt (another hero), and spinning that debut record with the Heartbreakers, and fittingly I’m heartbroken. Tom Petty will live on forever, because his music is undeniably going to outlive me, and outlive the generations to follow; he’s a titan, an icon, and a hero.
Alive or dead, Tom Petty will continue to be a personal hero and what I view to be an American Icon.
In summation, we lost one of the coolest (insert F-bomb) today. His long, blonde hair, his cherry red Rickenbacker, and his dorky, but potent voice are totems of rock’n’roll.
Rest easy, Tom.
Willie Lutz is a student at Ohio State and a former writer for Loveland Magazine. You can follow his other writing here:
He has provided these links for folks who want to support the victims of Puerto Rico’s devastation, and the deadliest shooting in US history occurring last night in Las Vegas.
2016 Art Affaire Best of Show winner, David L. Hunt, with The Last of the Apple Trees
Premier art and fine crafts show features a spectacular array of art, music, food
Milford, Ohio – August 2, 2017—The Greater Milford Area Historical Society (GMAHS), in association with Lykins Energy Solutions, will present the 12th Annual Art Affaire – Milford’s premier art and fine crafts show – on Saturday, September 23, 11 AM until 5 PM. This event is free and open to the public and will be held, rain or shine, on a closed three-block section of Main Street (U.S. Route 50) in historic Milford, Ohio 45150.
Art Affaire continues to expand, and this year’s event will feature 115 local and regional artists. “Each year we work on improving Art Affaire based on feedback and recommendations from our sponsors, artists and the local community,” said Donna Amann, administrator, GMAHS. “This will be our third year on Main Street, and we’re delighted to return to this historic venue. The added benefit of the local shops and restaurants adds to the charm of this popular community event.”
The 2017 Art Affaire will include 40 percent new artists. “We certainly welcome our returning artists,” comments Mary Ward, artist coordinator, Art Affaire. “And, we are pleased that the show’s reputation is attracting a growing number of entries, which helps us present a line-up that is continually new and fresh for visitors.”
“I want to congratulate GMAHS on an excellent art show,” comments 2016 Art Affaire artist, Lisa Inglert. “I wish every art show could be just like this one. GMAHS wins my award for one of the most organized and smoothly run art shows that I have ever participated in – and, I had terrific sales on top of it.”
The 12th Annual Art Affaire will feature:
Art Affaire is presented by the Greater Milford Area Historical Society in association with Lykins Energy Solutions. Key sponsorship is provided by the Historic Milford Association (HMA), the City of Milford, PDQ Buildings and Proforma Albrecht & Company; with added support from a number of Milford and Miami Township businesses including Accounting Plus LLC, Angels House of Music, Eric Campman, Mike Castrucci Auto Group, Clermont Equipment, DCA Certified Public Accountants, DER Development, Evans Funeral Home, Miami Township, Park National Bank, Recreation Outlet, Row House Gallery, Doug Smithson Insurance, Sora’s Towing, That Shop in Milford, Ulmer’s Auto Care and Wiebold Studio.
For more information, visit www.MilfordHistory.net or follow the event on Facebook at www.facebook.com/artaffaire.
About Greater Milford Area Historical Society
The Greater Milford Area Historical Society, Inc. (a 501c3, non-profit) was founded in 1967 with the purpose of emphasizing the history of Milford. A small historic museum was started at 114 Main Street. In 1983, the Society relocated to its present location, Promont, located at 906 Main Street, Milford, Ohio. Promont was the home of John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio and the only governor from Clermont County. In addition to improvements to the Museum, the Society has expanded its historical programs and collaborative initiatives in the community; and, also broadened its scope to include Miami Township. The GMAHS is especially proud of its Partners-in-Education programs in the Milford schools, an award winning effort of the Society’s volunteers; the project to record oral histories of local residents; genealogy services; and, its annual Art Affaire, Milford’s premier art and fine craft show. For more information, visit www.milfordhistory.net.
