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incinnati fandom has been around, in one form or another, since its "founding" (rather a grandiose term for three guys getting together to sling the bull) in December of 1935 by Charles R. Tanner, Ross Rocklynne, and Dale Tarr. We even hosted Cinvention, the 7th World Science Fiction Convention, in 1949.
Whether the Cincinnati Fantasy Group (CFG) came into formal existence before or after Cinvention is a matter of some dispute (though the Program Book does contain a welcome message from Tanner dating the club as several years old already). In either case, the organizational efforts put into Cinvention yielded a more organized fannish structure as well, with Don Ford as President and Lou Tabakow as Secretary/Treasurer. Despite our newfound formality -- or perhaps because of it -- our scope became rather less ambitious: to this day, members look askance at brothers and sisters who mention the possibility of another local Worldcon...
Don died in the '60s, and Lou in 1981, and the CFG metamorphosed again: we're currently an informal and lethargic bunch, but with our history, there's no telling what we'll be like tomorrow...or what we'll get up to the day after. ("Re-cross the Rhine in 'Naught-and-9," anyone? Roger for Chairman. And stop that looking at me askance...)
What a long, strange trip it's been...
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