The centennial: 2002

2002

A parade, a festival, fireworks — and a quilt for a publication record. The town was incorporated in 1902, and its centennial year was kept: the county's 2011 Comprehensive Plan records that "a large Centennial celebration was held in 2002 with a parade and festival," its history narrative adding "a day of community activities, a parade, and evening fireworks," and captions a photograph of the Lions Club's Centennial Parade. The plan also pictures "The Lakeville Centennial Quilt," with the caption "The fabric of community, the patchwork of history, stitched together with hometown values."Now and Then, the era's town history. Two years on, the town celebrated again: the South Bend Tribune's 2004 account of the Lakeville Festival describes a history quilt raffled as a prize, its images taken "from photographs in [Jeanne Geyer]'s book," with a festival board of Geyer, Dan Casad, Howard Heines, Don Milzarek, Chris Rowe and Mike Wozny. Whether the 2004 raffle quilt and the plan's pictured Centennial Quilt are one object or two prints unresolved in this section, exactly as the carriers leave it: the 2004 item describes quilts built from Geyer-book photographs, the plan pictures a single named Centennial Quilt, and no identity between them is claimed. The birthday line the checklist also asks for prints with it: the town's incorporation centennial fell in 2002 and was kept; no earlier town-birthday celebration is shown in the record reached — not the plat's (1859), not the railroad years' — and the sesquicentennial of the plat year, 2009, shows no celebration in the carriers searched either.