The Eikenberry Family: Part of the local arts festival since 1969

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio – Day two of the Salt Fork Arts and Crafts Festival wrapped up today and WHIZ meet a volunteer who’s family has been tied to the festival from the very start.

Since the start of the festival in 1969, the Eikenberry family has supported and volunteered for the event. Susan Eikenberry, now Susan Benham, remembers how her parents, George and Alice, got the family started.

“My mother was a teacher, my dad was a soil conservationist with the federal government and we always were very active from the very beginning of Salt Fork. My Mother ran the children’s craft tent and I was a young gal, young lady then, like 10, 12, or 13 and I helped out,” Benham said.

Benham now lives and Florida with her husband, and even though she has siblings in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City, they all come home to Cambridge every year. She says its the community that keeps them coming home.

“Everybody in the community volunteers or, you know, supports it with awards or giving money so they can run very well. And I think it’s just the community here in Cambridge is wonderful,” Benham said.

The Eikenberry family has four awards in honor of Susan’s parents, her brother, and her sister who have all passed away. The Salt Fork Arts and Crafts Festival wraps up tomorrow at the Cambridge City Park and opens at 10 a.m. and you can learn more by visiting their website at SaltForkFestival.org.