Chamber honors Maple Leaf founder Robert S. Dale posthumously as festival’s 60th grand marshal
CARTHAGE, Mo. — For six decades, the Maple Leaf Festival has been a familiar sign that fall has arrived in Carthage. There have been parades, contests, dances, food, music, costumes and plenty of maple leaves along the way. But as the festival celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, Carthage will also take time to remember the man whose idea helped start it all.
