by Chairman Bruce R. Erickson
I was the Exchange Club chairman for Ribfest in 1991. The challenge that year was to fashion the event around a Fourth of July that fell on a Wednesday. Without much of a thought (still naive) we started on Friday, June 29 and ended on July 4…six days! We almost killed half the club.
Luckily, because of a well-placed leap year, we have gone 16 years before being faced with another July 4 on a Wednesday, last year. This time we were older and wiser and only went for five days, leaving the Friday off the schedule.
