Nearby is the Revivals 2 Thrift Store, where Red waited in line to purchase his bus ticket at the Trailways Bus Station to Fort Hancock on his continuing journey to see Andy. Traveling to Ashland, we visit the Crosby Advisory Group building (standing in as the Maine National Bank in the film), where, after escaping prison at the end of the film, Andy leaves with a lot of Warden Norton’s money. The tall trees sway softly as we take in the surroundings. Adam stands next to where Andy sat in his car, turning over his revolver in his hands, just before he is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. We hike the easy one-mile loop trail to Pugh Cabin on the grounds of Malabar Farm, where the opening scene of the movie was filmed both inside and outside. Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge in St. Walking along the creaky wooden floors, we get a glimpse into life in the early 1900s. The Big House, which rivals many southern plantation homes, is where James Whitmore (Brooks) and Clancy Brown (Captain Hadley) were given a personal tour during a break in filming the movie. It’s still a working farm and we notice soybean crops sprouting up from the fields and Hereford Cattle and Nubian Goats grazing in the pasture. Stretching across 1,199 acres, everything we can see is part of the farm. The location is also the wedding site of movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The farm is home to Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize winning author, farmer, conservationist. I bookmark the website, as I know this will make a perfect birthday gift for Adam.Īcross the street is Malabar Farm State Park. But yesterday we learned about Natural Wood Mirrors, an Ohio business, which makes amazing souvenirs out of the actual oak tree. The film location is on a private farm and unfortunately the 200-year old tree blew down in 2016. We get an early start the next morning and head for the Shawshank Oak Tree where Red dug up the money Andy left him. We looked into Andy Dufresne’s escape tunnel, and I imagined the film production as well as the experience of the character, desperately crawling to freedom. We take photos of each and think about what it would be like to lie on hard cots in our own cells. Along the way, we retrace the footsteps of main character Andy Dufresne and the rest of the Shawshank prisoners as our knowledgeable guide takes us through Warden Norton’s office, prisoner Brooks’ hotel room and the parole boardroom. There are several different tours to choose from, both guided and self-guided, and we opt for the History Meets Hollywood Tour. That the Reformatory is supposedly haunted only adds to the eeriness. Nicknamed Dracula’s Castle, its imposing and ornate architecture makes it seem more of a grand castle than a former prison. The stately reformatory looks just as it did in the movie, almost out of place in the rolling, green hills of northeastern Ohio. It’s also here that Andy utters Adam’s favorite line to quote, “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.
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