Billy “Thunder” Mason

September 8, 2004 - Already at the top of the charts, Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying features the drumming of Fairborne native Billy “Thunder” Mason.
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The Pretenders

September 7, 1951 - Pretenders founder Chrissie Hynde is born in Akron where she graduated from Firestone High School before becoming an international icon of rock and roll.
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Big Muskie Bucket

Check out the Big Muskie Bucket. Once the world’s largest earthmoving bucket, all that remains of that giant machine is the gaping maw. Find it in Reinersville at Miner’s Memorial Park west on Ohio Route 78 off I-77 at the Caldwell exit.
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Goodyear's Air Dock Hanger

September 4 – At 22 stories high, the Goodyear Air Dock Hanger in Akron was the largest building without interior supports until the Houston Astrodome was built. Find it at 1201 East Market St. in Akron.
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U.S.S. Shenandoah

September 3, 1925 – The dirigible U.S.S. Shenandoah was colossal at 680 feet long and 93 feet high. It was on a tour of Noble County when it encountered a violent updraft, which tore it apart. Fourteen people died but 29 survived after a harrowing few miles as the nose bumped along at treetop level. A monument and trailer/museum is in Ava with a marker four miles west of I-77 at exit 25 on Ohio 78.
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Ronald Isley

September 2, 2006 – Iconic rock singer Ronald Isley, born in Cincinnati, is sentenced to three years and a day in prison for tax evasion. Isley, 66, suffered a stroke prior to his incarceration and developed kidney cancer.
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Wayne Hayes

September 1, 1976 – Democrat Congressman Wayne Hayes, the former mayor of Bancock, resigns after Elizabeth Ray told the Washington Post that she was his mistress and had been hired by Hayes as a secretary even though she “couldn’t type, file or answer the phone.”
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