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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens will host Off the Vine: An Evening Paring of Food and Wine, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, July 26. ... This year's event is Saturday at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Wooster.
Christmas has always been a special time at Stan Hywet Hall in Akron considering the family moved into the manor in December 1915.
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron and became a museum in 1957. At 64,500 square feet, the manor house is among the largest private residences in the country.
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...
Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling (October 6, 1859 – August 11, 1955), also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921.
In 1958, he moved to Northern Ohio as Executive Director of Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, Ohio. [3] He produced a summer Shakespeare festival in 1960, but was fired from Stan Hywet in May 1961. [ 7 ] Having already scheduled a second summer Shakespeare season in 1961, he produced the festival at the Ohio Theater in Cuyahoga Falls.
A professional regional theater, The Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival (GLTF), was launched in 1962 with a $50,000 budget (equivalent to US$519,747 in 2024). Supported by community members and volunteers at its inception, the theater continues to operate as a non-profit with a $3.6 million annual operations budget.
Hewitt, who joined the Post in 2017 and hosts a nationally-syndicated radio show for Salem Media, has been one of the few conservative voices for the Post’s otherwise left-leaning Opinion desk ...