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HISTORIC LAUNCHING OF FIRST O.V.A.M.

By Joe Fahnestock

No--this is not the announcement of a first-launching of a jet-propulsion missile to outer space from the North American Space Agency Laboratories. Nor does it concern the unveiling of some new kind of military weaponry, for its purpose was not to wipe out human life or cause physical suffering.

The only "space" that O. V. A. M. was concerned with was that of conquering the Brown County Fairgrounds, which it did from the very first "launching", which took place on August 13, 1971, at Georgetown, Ohio, in the gently rolling hills of southern Buckeyeland.

The Ohio Valley Antique Machinery boys had never launched an old-time, historical agricultural show before. But they planned it like they already had. For at the very first hour of the show's opening, every antique tractor, car and gas engine, as well as concession--everything that w...

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