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It's that time!!!  The festival to end all festivals!!  And only on the Westside.

 

http://www.harvesthomefair.com/

 

Harvest Home Fair Operating Hours

 

September 4: Annual Parade, Thursday, 6pm. (1 Mile Run just before parade)

 

September 5: 5 - 11pm (Horse Show starts at 7pm)

 

September 6: Noon - 11pm (Horse Shows start at Noon and 6:30pm)

 

September 7: Noon - 10pm (5k Walk/Run & Horse Show starts at 10:30am)

Admission: $5.00 Adults, Children under 12 FREE!

Saturday and Sunday, FREE until 3:30!

 

One price rides: Thursday 6pm - close: $10

Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 6pm: $15

Motorcycles part of Harvest Home car show

By Kurt Backscheider [email protected] August 20, 2008

http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20080820/LIFE/808200355/

 

CHEVIOT - Several hogs will be on display at this year's Harvest Home Fair, but not only in the livestock tent.

 

The car show at the Biggest Little Fair in Ohio will feature six to eight Harley-Davidson motorcycles from Harley-Davidson of Cincinnati.

 

"That's new for this year," said Green Township resident Bob Westendorf, the Cheviot-Westwood Kiwanis Club member who organizes the fair's car show each year...

 

Schools on the Westside practically shut down for the Harvest Home Fair.  I remember homework assignments being put on hold, some students leaving early, etc.  Might as well be a holiday on the Westside.

^YUP,  I used to love it because we got out of football practice early from the middle and high schools!!!

I remember marching in the Harvest Home Parade when I was in Girl Scouts.  That was fun.  I don't think I've even been to the fair since high school, and I graduated 14 years ago.

 

Wow...I suddenly feel old....

 

    How about an UrbanOhio meet at the fair?  :-D

 

    (By the way - you can see the Cincinnati skyline from the top of the AstroWheel.)

Count me in!  I'll be there.

Never heard of this before! It's weird that the Westside apparently shuts down for this, and my family and friends haven't even heard of it.  Gotta love Cincinnati...

^Seriously? 

 

What part is your family from?

The east side. My parents live in Evendale on the Blue Ash border and that's really as far west as we go haha.

^Other family and friends in Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, and Indian Hill areas.

Cool. 

Yea, it's a westside thang fo sho!   

 

The biggest dfference from most other festivals we have is it resembles a county fair more than a festival.  Through the months of June thru Aug. we have a festival somewhere just about every week. (With all the churches and schools over here.)    This is pretty much the finale kicked off with the parade on Thurs.    They begin lining Harrison Ave through Cheviot with lawn chairs about two days before the parade.    It draws one hell of a crowd!!!

 

 

^Sounds fun! In highschool I used to like going to some of the different festivals (Junefest at Cardinal Pacelli, All Saints fest, St. Michael, St. Gertrudes, OLSH) and they were always fun, but the most fun I've ever had at a festival was definitely the Greek Festival in Fineytown--so fun

^Nothing beats a Greek or Italian Festival, ..All of them are great times!  (Alot of experience at these!)        Never been to the F-town one though.    I will have to check that out!

Tradition still reigns at Harvest Home Fair

Contributed By Shauna Steigerwald | The Enquirer

http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100111&sid=134538

 

Tradition.

 

Thats the short answer Harvest Home Fair chair Pete Minges gives when asked what keeps 20,000 to 25,000 people coming back to the event year after year.

 

The parade and the fair are just something you grow up with, especially if you grew up on the West Side of Cincinnati, he said. We have families who came as kids and are now bringing their kids and grandkids...

^Do people ever buy new folding chairs, or is that image the same one used for the 1982 Harvest Home Fair?

Never heard of it.  The entertainment doesn't sound very entertaining to me though..I think I'll pass.

 

 

Awesome night for the parade!    Very large turnout too!!      Mr Mallory was in attendance, plus all the other politicians.

 

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