When Darris Hammon gets to work, he’s not behind a desk but dangling in the air. Hammond was repairing the sign on the front of Hill’s department store in Ironton Hills Plaza in this September 1990 photo. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Blacksmith John Cheek didn’t have a spreading chestnut tree to set up under just a booth at the Festival of the Hills at Ohio University’s Ironton campus in this September 1990 photo. Watching Cheek pound away at a piece of red-hot iron is J.R. Minard, 9. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Brian Ruth’s chainsaw chips away at a log until a bald eagle emerges. Ruth, of Hartsville, Pa., set up a plexiglass booth at the Ashland Town Center one weekend in September 1990 to show off his chainsaw sculptures, which range in size from life-sized hummingbirds to wooden Indians. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Denise Morgan, of Dawson-Bryant, prepares a cup of lemonade for Jeff Bentley as he downs a hot dog in this September 1990 photo. The cheerleaders feed the players every Thursday after practice. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

The sun rides the horizon as Kip Colvin, of Ironton, sharpens his tennis serve in the Ironton High School parking lot in August 1987. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Ray Savicunas)

Kyle Taylor, 3, tries to lift a pumpkin that might be a contender in the largest pumpkin contest at the annual Old-Fashioned Sorghum Festival in September 1990 in Wilgus. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Ohio University assistant basketball coach Jay Wolfe tells Craig Harvey how to be quicker during a basketball mini-camp at the Ironton Junior High School in August 1987. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Ray Savicunas)

Ironton Mayor William S. Sheridan takes careful aim and throws out the first pitch to kick off the Ohio Little League championship series in August 1987. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Ray Savicunas)

It was a soggy walk on the way to school in September 1990 as rain poured across the Tri-State. The group was bound for Whitwell and Campbell elementary schools and included, from left, J.R. Hammonds, Mindy Hammonds, Johnny Browning and Mary Stapleton, with her son, Earnest. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Mandy Green, left, and Stephanie Green, protect themselves from the rain during a Green-St. Joseph football game in September 1990. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

Jeff Jenkins, of Ironton, tries his luck in the pond beside the Hanging Rock freeway intersection in September 1990. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)

A walking kazoo mascot and an employee’s kazoo band entertained shoppers at the grand opening of the Pick ‘n Save grocery store in the Ironton Hills shopping center in September 1990. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)