Our Sunday outing took us to a historic town called Hudson.  It was founded by David Hudson in 1799 and was modernized in the early 20th century through the wealth of James Ellsworth, who was born there.  Ellsworth owned several coal mines in the area and also was a prominent banker.

Watch your step, Mr. Ellsworth!

A fun fact about the Ellsworth family is that James’ son Lincoln was a polar explorer who was later featured on a postage stamp.

We could have used Lincoln Ellsworth’s jacket this past week – it was chilly in Akron!

After some lunch, some of the students stayed to enjoy the shopping and sunshine…

Enjoying the sunshine in Hudson

While others went to Cuyahoga Valley National Park to check out Brandywine Falls…

Aren’t the Brandywine Falls beautiful?

An unobstructed view!

After the hour long hike we went back to Hudson for some dinner and wandering around.  There were lots of great things to look at…

This was in front of an instrument repair shop. I hope that all of the repaired instruments come out of the shop looking this good!

and we found new cars for Dr.Hahn and Horhota!

Dr. Hahn dreams of the green truck.  Dr. Horhota is going to trade in the minivan for the GTO…if only we could all fit!