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WEST LIBERTY - Get ready to enjoy your own Independence Day celebrations by attending a 19th century holiday program on the lawn at Piatt Castle Mac-A-Chee
Free events set at Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek
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WEST LIBERTY – Join Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek in celebrating the 200th anniversary of General Abram Piatt’s birth on May 21, 2021. Open that day from 3-7 p.m. visitors will be admitted for free to visit the home he built in 1864 called, Mac-A-Cheek. They will discover the impact Abram had as a farmer, soldier, family man and influencer. Attendees can bring a birthday card or make one when during the visit. Many will be exhibited at the castle and posted on social media. During the same hours, visitors can attend a farm fair featuring Ohio products and food vendors sponsored by the West Liberty Business Association.
Explore ‘cabinet of curiosities’ at Mac-A-Cheek
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WEST LIBERTY – The Mac-A-Cheek Foundation for the Humanities, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides educational experiences at Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek, received a grant from the Ohio Humanities to produce a free public talk and three visitor guides to more effectively interpret the massive walnut cabinet of curiosities in the drawing room. In preparation, staff and volunteers shared research from the Piatt family archive with museum consultants in material culture, anthropology and archaeology, and interpretive strategies.
One interpretive guide will be located inside Mac-A-Cheek Castle for use by all visitors. Youth guides will be created and given away for free, and a third guide containing essays by consultants along with historical images and photographs of artifacts and natural history specimens will be available for sale by summer.