Milestone no reason to keep status quo
New features pepper the 25th Frisco Festival.
Posted: August 27, 2009 at 11:28 a.m.
There will be crowds in downtown Rogers this weekend with or without publicity. It's Frisco Festival weekend, an event burned into the community's subconscious. Main Street Rogers President Kerry Jensen estimates 40,000 people will stop by at some point during the two-day event, almost like clockwork. But 25 years of anything will make it a tradition. Yes, it has really been that long. It all comes back this weekend: the food, the shops, the music, the trains. A quarter century has done little to change the character of the event.
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