Since 1984, the Frazier Community, Plain City, Ohio and Arnett Howard’s Creole Funk Band have met on Labor Day for a Pigroast and Family Day. As many as seven hundred people have attended this annual celebration from all over the world.
The pigroast started in 1984 as a celebration party when Arnett graduated from the Columbus Area Leadership Program. Art Yoho, of Yoho Foods, contributed the pig, Arnett contributed the music, the Leadership Program made up the guest list, along with the members of the Frazier Community.
The event was enjoyed by all and next year’s event was planned, expanding the guest list to include all friends of Frazier Estates. Friends came from Plain City, Columbus, Cleveland, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles and Munich, Germany, among other places.
There has been only one year that the event has not been held, due to drouth conditions in Plain City. For two years the pigroast was held at the Jerome Township Center in New California, but for the majority of the time the party have been held at the Charles and Virginia Davidson residence, the Eddie Abercrombie residence, the Howard/Bogart residence and the Arnold and Mevelyn Estis residence.
In 2011, the Frazier Community will be hosting its twenty-seventh Pigroast and Family Day. Photos through the years have been assembled and are on display at http://www.flickr.com/photos/59510425@N04/sets/72157625986802051/.
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