That’s why there were 120 of them on one grill alone Thursday morning outside the Bucyrus Boosters wagon. The historic legacy of the county’s namesake is remembered every summer season during Living History Days, allowing town’s premiere pageant the possibility to broaden beyond one man to embrace the German heritage of the area’s earliest European settlers. Doug Foght runs the official first sausage of the 12 months to the stage Thursday morning during the opening ceremony for the 2023 Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival.
There was a smaller competition before, though, and Jeff Reser, mayor of Bucyrus, can recollect it like yesterday. Foght handed the prized sausage sandwich to Hannah Feldman, the 2022 Bratwurst Festival Queen, to make sure the meal would cross her royal check. Tim Souder, assistant principal of Bucyrus High School, flips a row of sausages Thursday morning in the course of the 2023 Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival. Some of …
