Plans are under way for the annual Ring of Fire of Indian Lake set for the evening of Sunday, Sept. 4.
The tradition dates to 1961 when A.M. Brown, manager of the former amusement park in Russells Point, presented the idea to the Indian Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. The Seneca tribe had used red flares to light bonfires around the shares of a lake in New York to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
While it traditionally has signified the end of the peak recreation season between Memorial Day and Labor Day at Indian Lake, the chamber now is looking at the observance as the signal of the start of a new season, ushering in autumn and the annual Fall Festival at Indian Lake State Park and more.
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