Visited: Monday, August 22nd, 2011
While Garfield's home isn't far from where I grew up, I'd never been, and it is a very enjoyable tour; it reminds me a lot of the Longfellow house, actually. And the tour guide mentioned that Garfield visited Longfellow, so perhaps it's not surprising. The tour gives one a much better understanding of who Garfield was - I hadn't realized that he achieved fame for his role in the battle at Chickamauga (which we visited back in February), or that he was such a scholar - his home was filled with books, as much so as Longfellow's.
Overall, very enjoyable, and well worth stopping at if you're around Mentor.
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