Town and community · added September 14, 2026
Tri-State Festival
Evidence note · high confidenceWhat the evidence supports
Evidence period: 1954. The May 13 report expected more than 7,000 high-school students from 11 states. It also discusses registered contestants with a different total.
Limits and open questions
Expected attendance is not actual attendance. The additional registration count and garbled organization total require image review; do not reconcile or aggregate them by assumption.
Confidence detail: high. Evidence notes are not a count of distinct ensembles.