In 1976, a small group of dedicated people planning Twinsburg’s participation in the bicentennial celebration that year decided to set aside one day for twins. The Twins Day Festival started with a flag raising and dedication of the Wilcox Monument on the square and the dedication of the first picnic shelter at Glenn Chamberlin Park.
The following year, determined not to let the idea die, a committee went into action, and made the second Twins Day happen. There were food booths that year operated by local service organizations wanting to raise funds for their treasuries, a band concert talent show, a Square Dance Exhibition and a bike-and-buggy parade for children 12 years and younger. With 38 sets of twins who attended that second year we were on our way.
The past 43 festivals have seen over 77,000 sets of twins and multiples have attended, national and international media coverage, a visiting delegation of nine sets of twins from the Soviet Union, as well as on site research by companies and universities. The Twins Days Festival is recorded as the Largest Annual Gathering of Twins in the World by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Past Festival/Program Themes
2018 “Two-Player Mode” – Video Games/Gaming:
2017 Twinsburg 200th Bicentennial: Your heritage/Where are from?
2016 “Twinsfinity and Beyond!” – Outer Space
2015 “Times 2 Remember” – 40th Festival Celebration/Time Machine
2014 “Twinstock” – Late 60’s, Early 70s Era
2013 “Twice Upon a Time” – Fairytales & Fables
2012 “Twin Power!” – Super Heroes
2011 Circus
2010 “Twin Roundup” – Western
2009 “Twins Days Rocks!” – 50’s
2008 “Twins Days All-Stars” – Sports:
2007 “Twin Fiesta” – Mexican
2006 “Take2” – Movies
2005 30th Twins Days Festival Celebration
2004 Tropical
2003 No formal theme
2002 Patriotic
2001 “Double Fun!”
2000 “Reflections” – 25th Twins Days Festival Celebration
1999 “Two-of-a-Kind”
1998 “Two-gether in Twinsburg” – Noah’s Ark
1997 “Double Vision in Twinsburg”
1996 “And they came by ones, twos, threes, fours…” – Noah’s Ark
1995 20th Twins Days Festival Celebration
1994 “International Year of the Family”
1993 No formal theme
1992 Twinsburg’s 175th Anniversary
1991 No formal theme
1990 No formal theme
1989 No formal theme
1988 No formal theme
1987 No formal theme
1986 No formal theme
1985 10th Twins Days Festival Celebration
1984 No formal theme
1983 No formal theme
1982 No formal theme
1981 No formal theme
1980 No formal theme
1979 No formal theme
1978 No formal theme
1977 No formal theme
1976 No formal theme