LebTown
December 17, 2020 6 min read
The last Bologna Fest and Winter Carnival, which took place on Jan. 25 at the Lebanon Ex. (Will Trostel)
It’s utterly tasty and delicious.
It’s steeped in tradition.
It possesses the power to bring people together.
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Bologna is Lebanon.
It’s hard to keep a good bologna down.
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Last month, the Lebanon Bologna Fest and Winter Carnival was cancelled due to concerns related to the COVID-19 crisis. But the organizers of the popular local event, the Lebanon Rotary Club, recently vowed to continue staging it after the pandemic relents, hopefully in 2022.
“We in Lebanon, we’re proud people,” said Patrick Freer, a Lebanon Rotarian and the chairman of the Bologna Fest committee. “But we sometimes live in the shadow of Hershey and Lancaster. Bologna is a product that’s delicious and well-known, and it’s sold all over the country. We’ve got something special here. We should celebrate it. We should have an event.