The City Council earlier this week received a letter from a businesswoman who along with others is hoping city leaders will make an arts district downtown a priority. The letter
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Community-based tourism, in which locals invite tourists to visit their neighborhood while providing overnight accommodations, offers an investigative way to explore an area. This form of tourism is essential to sharing parts of Black American culture with each other. Kristin Kitchen, serial hotelier and owner of Sojourn Heritage Accommodations, grew her hotel brand with this exact concept in mind.
Kitchen opened her first bed-and-breakfast, Six Acres B&B, in a sprawling two-story, nine-bedroom house that helped carry runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Set along Mill Creek, Six Acres is located on you guessed it six acres of land in College Hill, outside Cincinnati, Ohio, where Kitchen grew up.