RED HATTER RENDEZVOUS, WAYNE, MEDINA & LORAIN COUNTIES

Start your day off at P. Graham Dunn Gallery and watch wood carving and lazar engraving technology. The retail store features all of P. Graham Dunn's charming wood gifts, music boxes, furniture and wall carvings.

Stop for a great lunch at The Barn Restaurant, housed in renovated 1937 dairy barn offering a unique country style menu. After lunch experience the Shops of Buchanan Place across the parking lot from the Barn. Enjoy a 12-room Victorian Farmhouse filled with gifts and collectables, a terrific toy store, an old-fashioned general store with local cheeses and trail bologna and The Barn Furniture Company in a restored 1830's barn. Not a shopper? Sit and relax on one of their many benches around a small lake and feed the ducks and geese.

Next stop is Medina's Historic Square. Check out the many unique shops and Victorian architecture. Just down the block is Root Candles at West Liberty where you can learn the colorful history of the company and shop in their retail shop.

And on up to Mapleside Farms to take a tour of the Apple House where they wash and sort the apples. Take time to visit the gift shop and apple house bakery.

Stop at Petitti Garden Center, a fifty feet wide by forty feet high greenhouse structure with a beautiful cathedral ceiling, designed by world-renowned UK artchitect, Chris Primett. Group horticulture demonstration and large home and gifts shopping section.

Your final stop will be at John Christ Winery where you will sample fabulous award-winning Lake Erie and Northern Ohio wines.

Contact Barb Bickel, Dan Hostetler or Martha Starkey for more information.

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