Fairport Harbor Beach
T-minus 28 days and counting. Today Topaz and I headed out for his first trip to the beach. At first we attempted to go to Headlands Beach in Mentor, which is huge and really nice...but unfortunately, it's not dog friendly. So we headed to Fairport Harbor Beach which I discovered actually has it's own dog beach. When I was a kid, we used to go sled riding down the hill that the lighthouse is built on. As an adult, my band would play at the foot of the hill during the annual Fairport Mardi Gras Festival.
Fairport Harbor is famous for its 60 foot sandstone lighthouse that was built in 1871. The earliest archeological evidence of people living in what is now called Fairport Harbor points to the Erie Indians, sometimes called the Cat Indians, from early in the seventeenth century to about 1650-1654 when Erie villages were destroyed by the Iroquois.
Most of Fairport Harbor’s first residents were of English and Irish descent, but when the ore docks were built, many, Finnish, Hungarian and Slovak people immigrated here. Churches, organizations and culture in Fairport today still reflect this ethnic mix.
This was another new experience for him. He didn't go swimming and I didn't want to scar him for life - so I didn't force it. He did go in the water and then would run around like a crazy dog after he got wet! He had a blast!
T-minus 28 days and counting. Today Topaz and I headed out for his first trip to the beach. At first we attempted to go to Headlands Beach in Mentor, which is huge and really nice...but unfortunately, it's not dog friendly. So we headed to Fairport Harbor Beach which I discovered actually has it's own dog beach. When I was a kid, we used to go sled riding down the hill that the lighthouse is built on. As an adult, my band would play at the foot of the hill during the annual Fairport Mardi Gras Festival.
Fairport Harbor is famous for its 60 foot sandstone lighthouse that was built in 1871. The earliest archeological evidence of people living in what is now called Fairport Harbor points to the Erie Indians, sometimes called the Cat Indians, from early in the seventeenth century to about 1650-1654 when Erie villages were destroyed by the Iroquois.
Most of Fairport Harbor’s first residents were of English and Irish descent, but when the ore docks were built, many, Finnish, Hungarian and Slovak people immigrated here. Churches, organizations and culture in Fairport today still reflect this ethnic mix.
This was another new experience for him. He didn't go swimming and I didn't want to scar him for life - so I didn't force it. He did go in the water and then would run around like a crazy dog after he got wet! He had a blast!
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