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Article: Portland to honor Elwood Haynes: Inventor's birthplace to celebrate birthday.
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- September 28, 2007
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Byline: John Dempsey
Sep. 28--The childhood and young adult life of automobile pioneer and inventor Elwood Haynes will be celebrated this weekend in Portland, where he was born 150 years ago.
Among the highlights of the fifth annual Jay County Heritage Festival will be a one-man show featuring a Haynes impersonator telling of the inventor's early life and Haynes vehicles and memorabilia.
The Haynes celebration -- on the ground of the Jay County Historical Society -- will join demonstrations of early American life, Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors, musical groups, artisans and crafters.
"We felt we needed to do something because ...