Grand Rapids Applebutter Festival

Crowds fill Front Street in Grand Rapids, Ohio, for the Applebutter Festival, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, sponsored by the Historical Society of Grand Rapids. Sunday's event in the community along the Maumee River celebrated the harvest season and its traditions. CLICK ANY IMAGE TO VIEW FULL PHOTO, START SLIDESHOW.

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Butch Bauer, left, and his grandson Cyril Bauer, 16, both of Defiance, grind corn into cornmeal. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Butch Bauer, left, and his daughter Stephanie Larkin, both of Defiance, grind corn into cornmeal at the Applebutter Festival in ... THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Detrick Renner, 18, of Grand Rapids, starts his 1929 John Deere tractor. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Elle Koesters, 8, of Napoleon, left, and Wood County prosecutor Paul Dobson, of Bowling Green, stir apple butter. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Otsego Trapshooting team members Bobby Tolles, 15, of Weston, left, Chris McCann, 15, of Grand Rapids, and Alex Easterwood, 16,... THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Grand Rapids Fire department members make onion rings from the 450 pounds of onions they cut up Saturday. From left: ... THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Alan Thompson, of Sylvania Township, participates in a Lewis and Clark reenactment. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Visitors and residents of Grand Rapids crowd Front Street for the Applebutter Festival. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Jay Ruggiero, left, and Frank Domalski, both of Sylvania, are part of a World War II reenactment. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Fritz Hartman, of Milan, left, and Jon Amundson, of Van Wert, talk near Mr. Amundson's 1940 AR John Deere tractor ... THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Lucas Adkins, 4, of Washington Township, turns the wheel on Detrick Renner's 1929 John Deere at the Applebutter Festival. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo The annual Applebutter Festival is a fall tradition in Grand Rapids, Ohio. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo Tim Kreps, of West Toledo, demonstrates the Lukens air rifle, carried by Lewis and Clark on their journeys. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER

Enlarge | Buy This Photo A canoe floats along the Maumee River near Grand Rapids during the Applebutter Festival Sunday. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER