Smile, You’re in Cincinnati
What makes us Cincinnatians? Where we went to high school? The pizza sauce at LaRosa’s? Our art museum, opera, or zoo? It’s not any one thing. It’s these 50 things, the encoded and received quirks, characters, institutions, and foods that make this city like no other. Swollen with pride and bakery goods, we’ve ranked these items based on how much they contribute to the Queen City’s identity. This is our civic DNA.*
By Donna Covrett, Brent Donaldson, Jack Heffron, Aiesha D. Little, Katherine L. Sontag, Jay Stowe, Linda Vaccariello, Amanda Boyd Walters, and Kathy Y. Wilson
Photograph by Ryan Kurtz
* If you think we got it wrong, tell us.
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Originally published in the May 2009 issue.