{"id":40837,"date":"2013-07-17T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=40837"},"modified":"2013-07-18T06:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T11:22:57","slug":"lambert-days-2013-includes-fireworks-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/17\/lambert-days-2013-includes-fireworks-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambert Days 2013 includes fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b>independent editor<\/i><\/p>\n

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Members of the Lambert family drive an antique Lambert automobile in the 2012 Lambert Days Parade. (VW independent file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OHIO CITY — Those anticipating this year\u2019s Lambert Days celebration in Ohio City have only one more day to wait until festivities begin.<\/p>\n

The annual festival honors former Ohio City resident John W. Lambert, an American automotive pioneer, inventor and automobile manufacturer. According to automobile historians, the Buckeye gasoline buggy, or Lambert gasoline buggy, was the first practical gasoline automobile available for sale in America. Lambert made America\u2019s first such automobile in 1891, according to an extensive study by auto historian L. Scott Bailey.<\/p>\n

Lambert successfully tested his \u201chorseless carriage\u201d in January 1891 inside an 80-foot-long farm implement showroom he owned in Ohio City. The three-wheel surrey-top automobile had a single-cylinder, four-stroke engine and had large rear wheels. It seated just one person.<\/p>\n

Legend also has it that Lambert was involved in the first automobile accident in America when he crashed his new vehicle while driving it in Ohio City.<\/p>\n

Organizers say this year\u2019s Lambert Days event is bigger than ever, with a fireworks show planned on top of softball and Wiffleball tournaments, live bands, the annual Lambert Days Parade and a display of antique Lambert cars.<\/p>\n

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John W. Lambert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The festival unofficially begins Thursday at 7 p.m. with the Lambert Days Pageant. 2012 Lambert Days Queen Abbi Marbaugh will be on hand to crown her successor, who will also receive a cash prize of $200. Lambert Days princesses will compete for a $50 prize. Cake and ice cream will follow the pageant.<\/p>\n

Other Lambert Days events include a Texas Hold \u2018Em poker tournament, Monte Carlo Night, kids\u2019 games, a Wiffleball Home Run Derby and tournament, a show by ATV daredevil Henry \u201cthe Pit Bull\u201d Rife, a flea market and craft show, a softball tourney, Bingo, a hog roast dinner, and cornhole tournament.<\/p>\n

The festival officially begins at 5 p.m. Friday, July 19, with a flag-raising ceremony conducted by Harvey Lewis Post 346 of the American Legion. A steak dinner will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, while kids games will begin at 5 that evening, along with the Wiffleball Home Run Derby at 5:30 p.m. The Texas Hold \u2018Em tourney begins at 7 p.m., while judging of autos in the Lambert Days Cruise-In will start at 8 that evening. Henry Rife\u2019s ATV daredevil show will start at 9 p.m., while Bad Attitude will also perform, starting at 9.<\/p>\n

The fireworks show is slated to begin at 10:15 p.m. Friday, while kids can see a movie under the stars, starting at dusk.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s activities include a men\u2019s slo-pitch softball tournament, starting at 8 a.m., a coed volleyball tourney, starting at 9 a.m., and the Wiffleball tourney, which begins at 10 Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Kids\u2019 games open at 11 a.m., while registration for the cornhole tournament begins at noon, with the tourney starting at 1 that afternoon. A hog roast dinner will start at 4 p.m. Saturday, while Bingo runs from 5-8 p.m. A dance featuring the popular area group Boomswang will start at 9 p.m., and kids can view a movie under the stars, starting at dusk.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, activities include a flea market, gift baskets and a raffle, and community garage sales. The softball tourney continues, starting at 9 a.m., while a chicken barbecue (carryout available) will begin at 11 that morning, with easy listening provided by Triad.<\/p>\n

Kids\u2019 games open at noon, with registration and lineup for the Lambert Days Parade starting at 1:45 p.m. The parade will begin at 4 p.m., with judging at the Community Building, along with a number of prize drawings (click here<\/b><\/a> for a Lambert Days brochure).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor OHIO CITY — Those anticipating this year\u2019s Lambert Days celebration in Ohio City have only one more day to wait until festivities begin. The annual festival honors former Ohio City resident John W. Lambert, an American automotive pioneer, inventor and automobile manufacturer. According to automobile historians, the Buckeye gasoline buggy, or Lambert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 11:44:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}