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Pancake Day in Liberal

Featured in the March/April issue of 1956 (Editor’s Note: This article has been lightly updated)

Well known as the home of such famous trackmen as Glenn Cunningham and the

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Pancake Race Liberal

The tradition of Liberal’s annual pancake celebration actually started across the Atlantic, in the town of Olney, England, over 500 years ago.

Legend has it that in 1445, a woman in Olney was

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