Glencoe Days has rolled with ebbs and flows of time
As Glencoe’s premier city celebration enters its 50th year under the title of Glencoe Days, the community’s collective memory may look back on the years of city celebrations and reflect on what’s new, what’s evolved and what stayed the same.
Glencoe Days, formerly known as Glencoe Fun Days and StueberFest, has been sponsored by various local businesses, maybe most notably Seneca, formerly Green Giant, which has sponsored a corn on the cob feed for the entire 50 years of Glencoe Days.
The event has evolved, expanded and dwindled in its 50 years, but people like Jon VanDamme and his wife, Myranda, volunteer to keep Glencoe Days a festival worth celebrating and keep it fresh with new events, like this year’s medallion hunt begining Thursday.
With the need for more space pushing the celebration from downtown Glencoe to Oak Leaf Park, the park has become an esteemed destination for the city celebration. The Glencoe Lions Club has been involved, in some form or another, for as long as Jon VanDamme, head of the Glencoe Days Committee, can remember.
(For the complete story,see the June 19 print edition of The Chronicle.)
