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Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
The 1996 festival will be remembered for the biggest rainstorm in the history of the festival. This rainstorm started about 20 minutes after the parade started, and lasted six grueling hours.
Local historian Art Fischbeck, a spectator at almost every festival, said afterwards, "I've seen it rain before the parade, I've seen it rain after the parade, and it has sprinkled from time to time during the parade. Never have I seen it rain as hard or as long as it did on the parade of 1996.”
Art Fischbeck