One of the biggest festivals in the area is the Farmer's Day Festival in Robbins and it kicks off this Thursday and runs through Saturday evening.

Routinely attracting 30,000 visitors over a three-day period the festival has music on multiple stages, a parade, rides, a climbing wall, a mechanical bull, guitar makers, metal engraving demonstrations, gunsmithing, a performance by a parachute jump team, and quite a bit more.

Fireworks are on Friday only and start at 10:15pm.

This festival is well worth a visit, you'll be amazed at how a town with a little over 1,100 residents can really come alive for three summer days. My wife and I experienced the Farmers Festival in Robbins last year without knowing what it was. On our way into town we saw people riding horses eating ice cream and realized that maybe something was a little different about that day. Although mobbed with people the event as we experienced it was lots of fun and we're looking forward to it again.

Hope to see you there.