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By 2004–2026 · Bonus delta item DF-21
The banked parks leg's system — a ball ground, a schoolyard, a garden, and a county park at the edge — omits the one park the town itself keeps: the festival ground at 202 N. Lamport. Fern Hunsberger Park stands in the places record as a park, active, at 202 N. Lamport Street (the South Bend Tribune's 2026 concert guide prints the festival address as 220 N. Lamport; the 202 figure is the festival's own, the visitor bureau's, and the places record's — the conflict is printed whole and the 202 figure is used here as the better-carried one), open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily on the directory record, and sized at 5.9 acres in the park directory updated 1 November 2026. It is a town park in the only way this town keeps parks: the Town of Osceola's own street-department page states that the department — two full-time employees — "is responsible for maintaining the Town Park," with no park board or department anywhere in the town's published structure, which is exactly the government the banked leg describes while never naming this ground. Its public life is the Osceola Music Festival's: the festival settled here in its bluegrass era — the Tribune's record of the 20th festival, in 2004, already seats it at Fern Hunsberger Park, off Indiana 933 — and the ground has carried it through the 2021 renaming and all-local turn to the 42nd annual festival of 7–9 August 2026, as Arts tells whole. The town's park work runs to this ground: electrical upgrades, a new playground, new sidewalks, and plans for a permanent amphitheater, in Councilman Joe Nehls's account as carried in Arts, the stage being assembled each year meanwhile by local high school football players. this history states the resulting shape plainly — "Osceola keeps two parks in its public life" — and this article restores the second of them to the parks record: Penn Park's diamonds at one end of town, Fern Hunsberger's festival green at the other. Two things do not stand in any record reached, and they are printed as this item's named gap: who Fern Hunsberger was, and the park's naming and acquisition course — no donor, dedication, or deed for the ground appears in the town's published record, the festival's, or any directory. Settlers: the Town of Osceola council minutes and deed record, and Kiracofe's History of Osceola (1988), read for the name. The conflict with the banked leg is also printed whole: Parks's frame enumerates the town's green without this park and states the town has no municipal park system; the truth the two files make together is narrower and odder — no park system, no board, no department, but one town park, kept by the street crew, and big enough to hold the town's whole public summer.
Sources: Places/directory record for Fern Hunsberger Park (202 N Lamport St; active; hours 8:00 AM–10:00 PM; phone shared with Osceola Town Hall), read November 2026; Pacer park directory (5.9 acres; updated 1 November 2026), at directory strength; South Bend Tribune, summer concert guide, 4 June 2026 (festival at "Fern Hunsberger Park, 220 N. Lamport St.") — address conflict printed whole; South Bend Tribune, 2004 (20th bluegrass festival at Fern Hunsberger Park, off Indiana 933), via the library newspaper record; Town of Osceola, street department page ("responsible for maintaining the Town Park"); Arts of this build (festival course 1984–2026; 202 N. Lamport; park improvements and amphitheater plans; Joe Nehls); Sports of this build ("Osceola keeps two parks in its public life"). Named settlers for the naming: Town of Osceola council minutes and deeds; Kiracofe (1988). Rights basis: published and directory facts; no image pulled.