Don’t miss the entertainment around the Square during the Columbus Day Festival. There will be stilt walkers, live statues and other performances.
The 56th annual Columbus Day Festival and the 36th year of the Balloon Regatta will kick-off Friday evening with the annual bean feed.
It was the bean feed that started it all in 1968 when the Distributive Class at Columbus High School wanted to do something to celebrate the town’s namesake.
In those days the general public did not know what a despicable fellow Christopher Columbus was going to beco…
