Whats the scoop on Cincinnati?
If you’ve never been there, maybe it’s time. Cincinnati surprises a lot of outsiders whose only exposure might have come through chili (with pasta), the Reds baseball team (the nation’s first), or Jerry Springer (a former mayor and local news anchor, and an internationally known talk-show host). But did you know that Cincinnati is named after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to farming after defeating the Aequians? Or why it has so many nicknames, including “Queen City,” “Blue Chip City,” and “City of Seven Hills”? Wikipedia calls Cincinnati America’s “first major American ‘boomtown,’ which rapidly expanded in the heart of the country in the early nineteenth century to rival the coastal metropolis in size and wealth. It has more arts, culture, and sports than a city its size probably should (56th-largest in the USA).
