The following suggestions are courtesy of Willie Pitzer.
Some of them are also shown on our [http://tinyurl.com/nsc2009 map].
===Fraze Pavilion===
These events are all FREE!
===NCR Old River Park/Dayton & #11 Carillon Park & Museum===
This 33 acre park has just reopened. It is near those of you staying at the Marriot between South Main Street and <br>
Museum inside and outside is free. There are many planes and interesting craft outside as well, The Hanoi Taxi used during <br>
the Viet Nam War, for one. This can be an all-day tour. It is located in 3 large hangars.
=== Dayton Art Institute 90th yr. Celebration ===
Curators throughout the state have evaluated Dayton's Art Museum's permanent and
self owned treasures and picked the 90 most valuable, rarer or unusual in honor
of their 90th anniversary. Thus the Museum has these 90 items all displayed in
one area. This is above and beyond their other displays. Cellphones needed to
listen to the program versus headphones but you can always just view the items.
The Art Museum is FREE! Parking is free. 456 Belmonte Park North just across
the river from downtown.
The architectural beauty of the building alone is worth
going. That and the Victoria theatre's architecture which I will be covering
later. I had some scrabble player's family members commenting on the
architectural qualities of some downtown buildings. Also recently received an
Email from a player that loved the Victoria Theatre.
Dayton's Downtown Arcade
has been purchased and is going to be renovated but not in time for this
tournament. I have to include this photo hyperlink just to show you what you are
missing. [http://photowoody.home.att.net/DDA/downtown_dayton_arcade.htm]
Outside, which you can see if you walk left out of the convention center, turn
(right) on Main and left on 3rd, sits across from the historic Courthouse. You may
have seen this outside picture as this building was up for sale on Ebay.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Arcade].
Anyhow I got side tracked. Here is
the link for the Art Insititute.
[http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/info/history.html]
Besides the 90th celebration items
there is a special exhibit -The Harold Shaw Pre-Columbian Collection.
[http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/exhibits/upcoming_shaw.html].
This museum is
dealing with the difficult economy as are so many businesses throughout Dayton
and the country in general. They have had to cut back. But I do want to tell
you to this point this museum has provided some great exhibits. They housed
Princess Diana's Legacy which had over 150 dresses, jewelry, photos and the many
albums of sympathy notes after her death for about a 6 month period before it
was returned to England. Borrowed from the Althorp estate I believe DAI had the
only US exhibit. 120,000 people attended this exhibit.They had Linda McCarthy's
Paul McCarthy's wife's art exhibit after her death to breast cancer. 104,000
people attended Chihuly's blown glass exhibit, The Chinese underground statues
drew 111,000 visitors from all 50 states and 20 foreign countries, Edgar Degas
art exhibit drew 84,000, the Chrysler Collection of French Paintings drew 56,000
years back.
Closed Mondays. If you are arriving Thursday it is open until 8
PM. T, W, Fri, Sat, Sunday 10-4. Besides all the treasures the museum has,
there is a gift store and a posh Cafe Monet with soups, salads and sandwiches.
Enjoy.