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Sandi Wilkins Wallace knows first-hand how big a deal it is to march down Main Street during the Fort Ligonier Days parade. Wallace, 64, moved to Florida as an adult, but as a kid who grew up in Ligonier she marched the mile-long parade route as a member of the

Thousands of people flock to the small town of Ligonier to enjoy delicious food, homemade crafts, and fun entertainment.

It’s not hard to tell that Tom Stablein enjoys helping organize the annual Fort Ligonier Days celebration — he has been its parade chairman since the mid-1990s. “Seeing it all come together in a little town this size, and to be able to put on a festival like this is

Fort Ligonier Days returns this weekend with a full schedule of activities including a parade on Saturday, craft and food booths, musical entertainment and battle reenactments. The nonprofit organization that operates the festival in Ligonier Borough expects the annual event to rebound after pandemic restrictions resulted in last year’s scaled-back