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1950s–2005 · THE FESTIVAL RECORD BANKED; THE ONE-OFF CLASS TESTED
The checklist asks for the homecoming, the delegation dinner, the historic pageant — each dated, placed and sourced — and this ground's record answers with a lineage instead. No dated one-off gathering of the checklist's class — no homecoming day, no international delegation dinner, no historic pageant — stands for New Carlisle in any source this section reached. What stands is the recurring gathering's own disputed descent, carried whole in the fairs file: Sidewalk Days in the 1950s, Historical Days from 1973, and Hometown Days from 2000 or 2005 — a festival lineage, told as festival history, whose tellings disagree about its own birthday. The distinction is printed because it is the finding: a town of this size gathers annually, not once; its great days are editions, not events. The residue stands named — a single pageant or homecoming, if one was staged, would live in the Tribune's and the Gazette's runs for its year, unreached page by page — and until that read, the one-off class closes at its true size: none attested, the lineage standing in its place.
Sources:
- this history — the festival lineage whole (Sidewalk Days; Historical Days 1973; Hometown Days 2000/2005), with its disputed descent.
- The one-off sweep of this section across the banked set, November 2026 — negative at that strength; settlers as named.