A local husband and wife are turning music lovers into lifesavers at festivals nationwide.

The big picture: South Siders William Perry and Ingela Travers-Hayward founded nonprofit This Must Be The Place this year with a goal of preventing drug overdoses through the arts.

• Their first project: distributing 10,000 doses of free naloxone nasal spray, which quickly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.

Why it matters: Overdose deaths have soared to record highs nationwide, fueled by an influx of fentanyl.

• Over 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021 — more than any other year on record, per the National Center for Health Statistics.
• More naloxone on hand means more chances to save a life.

What's happening: Perry and Travers-Hayward, along with their corgi mascot MarMar, have a booth at this weekend's WonderBus Music & Arts Festival. They'll have over 1,500 doses on hand to distribute for free.

• The two educate festival attendees on how to administer naloxone and spot overdose signs.
• Their nine-stop 2022 tour finishes at Burning Man in Nevada over Labor Day Weekend.

How it works: The nonprofit obtains reversal drugs through donations and health departments, including Ohio's Project DAWN.

• Their broader goal is to eliminate barriers like cost, transportation and stigma that might keep people from obtaining naloxone themselves from a pharmacy or health department.

Context: The mission strikes a personal chord with Perry, a rehabilitation counselor who overcame addiction and watched friends die from it.

• He now takes comfort in receiving messages from concertgoers who later reversed overdoses, including one who described reviving a stranger in a park.

What they're saying: "I couldn't do anything about those situations, but now I have the experience and the knowhow to help other people not have to go through it," Perry tells Axios.

• "It's our belief that everyone should be walking around with this stuff," Travers-Hayward says.

What's next: The hope is to someday expand This Must Be The Place to chapters nationwide.

🎵 Enjoy live music by Lorde, Duran Duran, the Lumineers and 30 other acts at Wonderbus.

• 6-10pm tonight, noon-9:30pm Saturday, noon-9pm Sunday at The Lawn at CAS. $109 daily, $179 two-day or $219 weekend pass. Parking $35.

🌼 View animal-themed gardens during "Topiary Takeover" at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

• 10am-5pm daily. $15-22.

🖌 Celebrate the life and work of "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles M. Schulz at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

• 1-5pm daily (Wednesdays through Sundays) until Oct. 23. Free!

🐶 Have a doggone good time exploring trails and lakes with your pooch during Wagfest at Prairie Oaks Metro Park's Darby Bend Lake area.

• 10-4pm, Saturday. Free!

🍺 Soak in the waning days of summer with live music, vendors and Taft's beer at Broad Street Block Party & Market, 440 W. Broad St.

• Noon-6pm, Saturday and Sunday. Free!

👋 Tyler here. I always pass this sign on my way to Clippers games and recently gave it a read for our ongoing historical marker tour.

The marker: The Irish in Columbus, on the southwest corner of McFerson Commons Park.

• A number of local Irish groups, including the Shamrock Club of Columbus and Greater Columbus Irish Cultural Foundation, helped erect this marker in 2002.

The intrigue: Our region's Irish roots date back to Irishman Lucas Sullivant laying out the town of Franklinton way back in 1797.

• Columbus' second mayor, John Kerr, was born in Ireland — as was Ohio's second governor, Thomas Kirker.
• The Irish immigrant population grew during the mid-1800s and many settled in Flytown, a neighborhood between the present-day Arena District and Goodale Park.
• Flytown was eventually razed to make way for highway construction.

2️⃣3️⃣ down, 98 to go.

🤫 Inside a secret mascot society, football pregame ritual and other urban legends on Ohio State's campus. (Columbus Monthly)

🍤 Esco Restaurant & Tapas, an Atlanta-based franchise serving seafood and southern-style dishes, is opening soon at the former home of Pub Mahone. (Columbus Underground)

🏈 Gahanna Lincoln is playing its final home football game at the 95-year-old Lincoln Stadium tonight and hosting a "Lights Out" event on Saturday. (WCMH-TV)

👎 Senate candidate Tim Ryan is among the Democrats who've panned the Biden administration's student loan relief plan. (Axios)

👑 The former Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival queen has retained a lawyer to fight back after being ousted from her reign. (Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum)

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