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--4/7/ 40th Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion
Couple shares anniversary month with Reunion
Collecting
Marilyn Craig, who married her husband Don the weekend after the first Thresher
Reunion, has collected memorabilia from the event for years including buttons that
date back to the 1970s as well as every plate since the first (on the left) was sold.
The most recent plate is on the right.
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
Marilyn and Don Craig will not likely ever
forget how old the Huron Pioneer Thresher
Reunion is. The Blyth-area couple, after all,
have an anniversary in common.
The weekend after the first Reunion was
held in 1961, the Craigs were married. An
attendee of the steam show since she can
remember, Marilyn began collecting memora-
bilia in 1975 when she purchased her first but-
ton. Then the year of the Reunion's and the
Craigs' anniversary, Marilyn picked up one of
the commemorative plates, a practice she has
continued ever since. "I have them all along
my stairway," she says of her collection. "I
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will soon have to find a new spot."
With sometimes only 25 plates made for
each Reunion, Marilyn makes sure she gets
one picked up early so her tradition can con-
tinue. "I had it in my head when I got the first
one that I would like to keep going."
And the price is right for this avid collector.
"They don't cost much more than they did 15
years ago."
A Moment in the Past
Over 500 people attended the first show,
which took place in the fall of 1962 at the
Blyth fairgrounds. By 1986, the people
attracted to the three-day event numbered
12,000.