Every August the town of Twinsburg, Ohio, hosts the world’s largest gathering of twins. Since 1976, more than 84,000 sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets have attended 48 annual Twins Days Festivals. The twins and other multiples enjoy picnics, a parade, costume contests, fireworks, a volleyball tournament, and awards for the most-alike and least-alike. And because twins get tired of being stared at, the number of reporters is limited.
A Town for Twins
Twinsburg is now famous as the town that celebrates twins—but it didn’t start out that way. The town’s original name was Millsville. Then in 1819, twin businessmen Aaron and Moses Wilcox promised to donate money for a new school and land for a town square if the town would rename itself Twinsburg, after them. And it’s been…