Easter egg hunt returns to city’s downtown square

More than 3,000 colored eggs to litter courthouse lawn on Saturday, April 19

  • Three-year-old Kellen Peterson joins dozens of other kids in picking up Easter eggs on the courthouse lawn in the spring of 2009. The photo was snapped by his mom, Sunny Wendt, who remembers that as being one of the last Easter egg hunts held on the square.
    Three-year-old Kellen Peterson joins dozens of other kids in picking up Easter eggs on the courthouse lawn in the spring of 2009. The photo was snapped by his mom, Sunny Wendt, who remembers that as being one of the last Easter egg hunts held on the square.

    It’s been a long time since an Easter egg hunt took place on the expansive grounds of the Hamilton County Courthouse on the town square. So long, in fact, that the community’s collective memory of just when the last one was held there has gotten a bit... fuzzy. Several people have recalled in recent weeks, however, that the Jaycees once sponsored the event and Sunny Wendt has a photo of her n…