Today Columbus celebrates its Bicentennial. It’s kind of like the Super Bowl for WOSU Commentator and Local Historian Ed Lentz.

You may have heard that Columbus is gearing up for its bicentennial. Committees have been formed. They are planning a year’s worth of events. WOSU Commentator and local historian Ed Lentz says, it wasn’t always this way.

Columbus has a big birthday coming up in a few years. Planning for the city’s 2012 bicentennial is underway. WOSU Commentator Ed Lentz says such celebrations help us remember how far we’ve come.