Host Lee Huffman of the We Travel There podcast interviews Amazing Ashville author

We Travel There allows the curious traveler to experience the best a destination has to offer by interviewing local writers who know where to find special attractions and local restaurants that might get overlooked by corporate travel companies. They have worked with authors representing major cities all over the world, but this week they did something a little unusual–they focused on a rural community south of Columbus, Ohio that offers up some unusual experiences that contrast with the hustle and bustle of urban America.

Host Lee Huffman interviewed Bob Hines–the author of the award-winning book Amazing Ashville to get some inside tips for travelers wanting to visit. Hines described various day trip attractions including Mott’s Military Museum, Slate Run Historical Farm, and the darling of Midwest travel writers–Ohio’s Small-town Museum. He explains that small towns like Ashville are incredible repositories of stories that are humorous, insightful, ghoulish, strange, and wonderful. He views rural communities as incubators of creative talent and connected to the nation and world in uncounted ways. It is hard to argue that point when you have a museum filled with proof of that hypothesis.

Huffman’s easy conversational style was both informed and inquisitive. Hines offered up flavor that only a person steeped in local lore could provide. The Ashville podcast is about 26 minutes long and packed with information to help anyone visiting the Columbus area.