We spent the night at Elk Heart, Indiana eating at the Red Lobster. Leaving Elk Heart, we head for Ohio where will spend several days around the Cleveland area touring the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Amish Country, and LDS historical sites.
Rythm, Blues, Gospel, and Country were blended together in the late 1940's and early 1950's; but, the R & R Hall of Fame includes more than what I consider Rock and Roll. Most music genres Hip Hop, RAP (Retards Attempting Poetry), etc. which I and many others don't think is true R & R. The Hall of Fame has been criticized for not being true to Rock and Roll since it's creation in 1983.
Les Paul was father of the electric guitar. He and Mary Ford (his wife) were also early contributors to the Rock and Roll movement with songs like "Tiger Rag" (Hold that Tiger). I remember them well as I was about 5 years old.
Sign says that this motor cycle belonged to Elvis. He may have owned it, but I would bet money that he didn't put any miles on.
Nope, not Elvis but his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire" another early R & R Early Pioneer.
You can spend hours in this building as there are seven floors with movies, and music recordings that you can listen to with headphones of your favorite artists.
The view looking from the second floor balcony of the R & R Hall of Fame at the marina and Lake Erie.
Leaving the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and some of the buildings of downtown Cleveland.
Shirley and I spent several days in Mentor Ohio in order to see the R & R Hall of Fame, check out the Amish (I wanted to eat in an Amish restaurant) and tour some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormon) early history sites.
This part of Ohio is fairly flat with some rolling low hills. We took a side trip into the area where the Amish religion was more prevalent. We went into a Walmart in one of the communities and found Amish men, women, and children integrated into the community. The area south of Cleveland is home to the largest Amish settlements in the world.
In most of the buggys we saw, there was only one man (the driver). We did see a buggy with a family and thought it interesting that the children were sitting on the floor almost hidden by the dash.
All of the buggys were of the same style.
This is a typical Amish home. It was located in a neighborhood with other similar houses (not all houses were the same just like any other neighborhood. We could tell this was an Amish (maybe Mennonite) because in the next photo which is of the same home with the sheds across the driveway is a buggy. Other homes in this area had cars in the driveways or garages.
You can just barely see the buggy in the first two openings of the shed. We also saw an Amish couple washing their buggy in their driveway but Shirley decided it wouldn't be polite to pull in and take a picture.
We did eat at an Amish restaurant in Millersburg, Oh. We had the buffet dinner. Authentic Amish (German) food was great! No fufu stuff!
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