When renowned local Etch-A-Sketch artist, Jeff Gagliardi, and Lyons promoter extraordinaire, Clark Hodge, came up with the idea for “Sketch-A-Palooza” (an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the number of people simultaneously sketching with an Etch-A-Sketch) they thought “a hundred or so people would be a good number.” Officials at
Guinness set the bar a little higher, and thought a good number for the event should be at least two hundred and fifty! A daunting number to be sure for a town the size of Lyons little over ten percent of the population would be needed.
