Clark Planetarium | The Roy Rogers Hometown Memorabilia Exhibit | Portsmouth Community Orchestra | Native American Burial Mounds | 1810 House | Philip Moore Stone House | Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center | Portsmouth Public Library | Portsmouth Little Theatre | Vern Riffe Center for the Arts | Greenup Lock & Dam | Firstar Bank Gallery |
Boneyfiddle Gallery Clark Planetarium
Tour the Solar System, witness the explosive death of a star or journey inside a living cell at Shawnee State University's Clark Planetarium.
Located inside the Advanced Technology Center, the Clark Planetarium is a large room with 66 seats under a huge dome projection screen. The key piece of equipment in the planetarium is the Digistar II Projection System. Digistar II is the only computer graphics planetarium projection system in the world. The Clark Planetarium is one of only 50 planetariums in the world that utilizes a Digistar projector. Not only does this system project a realistic view of the nighttime sky; it can also project three-dimensional images of buildings, spacecraft, and much more.
A computer automation system controls all of the devices in the planetarium making each program a multimedia experience of sight and sound. Audience participation is an important part of planetarium programs. Wired to each seat are three push buttons that allow audience members to respond to questions or to actually take control of the show.
For more information on planetarium shows, please contact Linda Plummer at lplummer@shawnee.edu or phone 355-2554.
The Roy Rogers Hometown Memorabilia Exhibit
Roy Rogers lived on Duck Run, in nearby McDermott, for a period of his youth and attended what was then McDermott High School.
Portsmouth takes on a country-western feel during the Roy Rogers Festival held in downtown Portsmouth. Sponsored by the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Collectors' Association, the festival is held the first weekend in June. Enthusiasts gather for the weekend for memorabilia, celebrities and western fun. You can have lunch with western stars and top off the weekend with a grand banquet.
Roy's childhood home is typically open for touring during the festival.
Contact Nancy Horsley at (740) 353-0900, or write the
Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Collectors' Association
Visit the Official Roy Rogers & Dale Evans website.
Portsmouth Community Orchestra
The Portsmouth Community Orchestra is like no other ensemble in the world. It's comprised of a group of musicians who have rediscovered their musical skills.
Carl Daehler, Executive Director of the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, is now the orchestra's director.
The first concert was held in July of that year, at the opening of the Esplanade.
There are typically 65-75 members of the Orchestra. Some of the members are college students and can only play in the summer. The orchestra is comprised of students, teachers, nurses, doctors, computer specialists, homemakers, ministers, band directors - almost any profession there is, is represented in this orchestra.
Thirteen board members, headed by President, Phil Raynes, help keep the orchestra going with funding provided by grants, ticket sales and fund-raising activities and generous donations by the public.
PCO has a 5 concert per year schedule:
For more information about the Portsmouth Community Orchestra, call (740) 354-1836 or visit their website at members.xoom.com/pcorchestra.
Native American Burial Mounds
The longest serpent effigy in the United States only a short distance from Portsmouth. Located 36 miles northwest of Portsmouth on Route 73 (near Locust Grove), Serpent Mound is one of many sites in the area that allows you to reflect on the ancient Indian presence in the region. Other sites include Mound Park in Portsmouth, the site of horseshoe-shaped burial grounds, and the Tremper Mound in West Portsmouth.
1810 House 1926 Waller Street The 1810 House is open May through November Saturdays and Sundays 2 to 4 p.m. There are special Christmas displays during December. For club meetings, school tour groups or visitors, call (740) 353-7647 or 354-3760 for an appointment.
More information about the exibits is located on this website - click here.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 1810 House is the home of the Scioto County Historical Society, Box 1810, Portsmouth OH 45662. Memberships are $3 single and $5 family.
Philip Moore Stone House
More information about this attactraction is available on this website - click here.
For tour information, call Dr. Louis or Ava Chaboudy at (740) 353-5605.
Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center 825 Gallia Street, Portsmouth, OH 45662; (740) 354-5629
An extensive collection of literature and local history-related material. Other highlights: genealogy department, children, Internet use available and much more. http://www.portsmouth.lib.oh.us.
Portsmouth Little Theatre
Local performers put on top-quality musicals throughout the fall/winter. The theatre players are conducting fundraising to refurbish the Theatre's current location at 1117 Lawson Street. Portsmouth Little Theatre's most recent changes include the addition of new dressing room and set-building facilities, the building of a new stage and the installation of an air conditioning system. In the near future, the Theatre expects to add new carpeting for the lobby and auditorium and a new lighting system. They are also in the process of raising funds to replace the seating in the auditorium.
For more information, call (740) 353-7034 or visit their website at:
http://home.zoomnet.net/~plt50/.
Shawnee State University's A subscription series of six concerts is sponsored by the Southern Ohio Community Concert Association. Portsmouth also has a summer opera company which performs at CRCFA. Call the McKinley Box Office at (740) 351-3600 or visit their website at www.vrcfa.org. Contact Southern Ohio Light Opera at (740) 353-5044.
Greenup Lock & Dam
Tours, available by reservation only, are lead by the Lockmaster. The Greenup Lock and Dam is also an electricity-generating dam.
This key point in the Ohio River navigation channel has a special observation area for watching boats and barges "lock through" the dam on the Kentucky side where there is also a picnic area.
The rest area on the Ohio side is now closed due to stepped-up nationwide security.
To arrange a tour, call (606) 473-7441.
Firstar Bank Gallery
602 Chillicothe St., Portsmouth; (740) 353-4151
Boneyfiddle Gallery
Works of Charles Clevenger, Ron Davey, Susan Greco, Leah Hunter, Willard Reader, Herb Roe, Denise Spaulding and John Walter are on display and available for purchase. Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 537 Second St. For more information call 353-8689.
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The Roy Rogers Hometown Memorabilia Exhibit, housed in the basement of the Portsmouth Post Office, exhibits posters, magazines, albums and photographs related to the life and times of this cowboy legend and Portsmouth-area native.
Photo © Don Davis of Wheelersburg, Ohio, all rights reserved.
Dr. Richard Brunner, retired dentist, initiated the start up of the orchestra in Feb. 1993, with a letter to The Daily Times. Dr. Brunner asked everyone interested in dusting off their instruments and forming an orchestra to contact him. All interested parties met in March 1993 at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center for the first time. The orchestra was first directed under the baton of Adam Crane, who came to Portsmouth as an artist-in-residence at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center. 
West Portsmouth. The Philip Moore Stone House was built in 1797 as a home for circuit rider ministers. Pioneer furnishings and building materials are on display in the home.
Portsmouth Public Library
