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As the sun goes down the lights come on at the Harvest Home Fair in Cheviot. FILE PHOTO
Harvest Home Fair is Sept. 6-9 Jennie Key Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
There are few things more West Side than the “Biggest Little Fair in Ohio,” the Harvest Home Fair. The Cheviot-Westwood Kiwanis Club and the Harvest Home Fair Association team up with the city of Cheviot for the annual Harvest Home Fair each year. The 159th annual Harvest Home Fair will celebrate Cheviot’s bicentennial. The Cheviot Bicentennial Committee is sponsoring a contest for the best-decorated sheep statue in the city as part of its celebration. The Cheviot sheep is a breed of white-faced sheep and became a city mascot. Fair-goers will vote for the winning statue throughout the fair. The four-day fair is set for Thursday, Sept. 6, through Sunday, Sept. 9, at Har-
vest Home Park in Cheviot. The fair traces its roots back to 1806, when Cheviot settlers Enoch and Ashsah Carson harvested the first abundant crop from their 20-acre farm and invited the other settlers to celebrate with them and give thanks for the successful harvest. Some form of the harvest festival has been celebrated every year since. It’s been cancelled three times: in 1813 and 1814 because of the War of 1812 and 50 years later in 1863 during the Civil War because of rumors that Morgan’s Raiders were coming across the Ohio and through the area. “The Harvest Home Fair is above all a tradition,” chairman Pete Rebold said. “People came here for the fair when they were kids, they remember how It was, and they want it to stay the same.” See FAIR , Page 1A
A parade entry from Ron's Roost turns onto North Bend Road in the 2015 Harvest Home parade. The parade is Sept. 6 and the fair runs Sept. 6-9 at Harvest Home Park. THE ENQUIRER/MEG VOGEL
West Sider’s book pays homage to ‘Cincy Kids’ and the toys that made them Melissa Reinert Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The common denominator among human beings, according to Cincinnati author Kristian Geer, is toys. “Even if it was a stick-shaped like an airplane, or a pet rock, or a straw doll, everybody has played with some sort of toy,” Geer said. Playing with toys, especially the Cincinnati-based Kenner playthings, was
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Geer’s favorite pastime growing up on the West Side. Actually, he never stopped playing. “Toys are the way I can connect with and communicate with others,” he said. Geer, 45, recently published “Cincy Kids,” a book featuring photographs of his personal vintage and antique Kenner toys posed at various Downtown Cincinnati scenes. The book was scheduled to be released on Aug. 31 at the Pendleton Arts
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Center. A portion of book sales and event sales will be donated to ArtWorks Cincinnati and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Any old plastic toy or action figure donated to Happens Toy Lab collection will be rewarded with a free postcard. It all started a few years ago when Geer was inspired by the Jonathon See TOYS, Page 1A
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