Our most publicized and largest event this year was the orchestration and creation of the World’s Largest Living Arrowhead. We solicited and gathered over 1,000 people to create the record-breaker for the National Park Service National Mall’s 100th birthday in August. Guinness has the record at 323 from two weeks before our event at another great national park, so we’re still awaiting the official word as the new record holder.
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