South Central Area Fair Board Announces

The South Central Area Fair Board is excited to announce the theme for this year’s Christmas Parade:

“A 1950’s CHRISTMAS PARADE”

According to records found in the Lewis County Herald, thanks to the Lewis County Public Library and Archives, the first Christmas Parade in Hohenwald was in 1953, and since we celebrated the anniversary of our first County Fair this year, we saw fit we should do the same with the parade!

Christmas in the 1950’s was a time of great joy and economic prosperity in the United States following the war. This prosperity was reflected at Christmas when families had more mon...