This year, the reunion is at Beech Maple Lodge in the Blacklick Woods Metro Park on Saturday, October 1, 11am-4pm.

Blacklick Woods is located at 6975 E. Livingston Ave. in Reynoldsburg (an eastern suburb of Columbus). From I-270, take the East Main Street/Reynoldsburg exit. Go east on Main Street to Brice Road and turn right. Take Brice Road to Livingston Avenue and turn left. The entrance to Blacklick Woods is about 1.5 miles on the right. Then you'll pass the Ranger Station on the right and Beech Maple Lodge is the first left.

Saturday, October 1, 2011 – 11 to 4 p.m. (Note that this is on Saturday, not the usual Sunday meeting.)
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Schedule


• 11 a.m. - Appetizers and good conversation.



• Noon - Potluck Dinner, bring a dish to share and table service for your family, beverages will be provided.



• After Dinner - White Elephant Silent Auction, bring plenty of white elephant items and please be generous in your bidding, because what we collect from them covers future expenses of the Ohio Circle.



• After Dinner - Business meeting, discuss Cody Family news, elect officers, and hear about plans for the 2012 International Reunion in Cincinnati!

Please respond to this notice by email (preferred) or leave a message to let us know if you are coming or not. Pass this along to family members and Cody Family friends that may wish to join us for this family event. Click here for a printable copy of this page plus a map of Blacklick Woods.

Opened in 1948, Blacklick Woods is the oldest and one of the busiest Metro Parks. The forest areas of this 643-acre park are laced with trails that wind through a swamp forest with white oak, pin oak and white ash along with red maple, red elm, shagbark, butternut hickory and dogwood. Shrubs include spicebush and buttonbush and the park features a small buttonbush swamp.

The 100-acre beech-maple forest is one of the least disturbed in Central Ohio. As you meander along the trails amid the beech and sugar maples, you might spy a fox sizing up a meadow vole or watch a white-tailed deer browsing before sundown. Blacklick Creek flows south along the eastern boundary of the park. The park features more than six miles of trails for hiking, biking, jogging or just viewing the fall foliage.

Visitors can also enjoy wildlife from the open meadows and fields while picnicking at the park. Seasonal ponds host abundant aquatic and plant life. Two golf courses abut the park, the entrance is .25 mile beyond the park entrance.