Dan Rice was an established circus owner long before making Girard his home. Born in 1823, he grew up on the Mulberry Street of a New York City's Manhattan District in the home of his loving mother, just doors from his paternal grandfather,a prominient lawyer and landowner. His mother and father's marriage was annulled, but Dan remained in contact with both parents even after his mother remarried. At age thirteen Dan was employed by his Stepfather to deliver a horse to Pittsburgh. Traveling through the state of New York to Buffalo, then south to Pittsburgh, Dan found work as a stable boy and sometime jockey. Falling in love with the city, he made Pittsburgh his new home. At 17, he married his first wife, Maggie, and shortly thereafter gained his first exposure as a performer while exhibiting a trained pig with a traveling show.

Schedule of Events:

10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. - Dan Rice Days Totes (information booth)
5:00 p.m.  - Cruise In at McQuillen’s (McQillen Chevrolet GMC, 604 Main Street)
5:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. - Magic Jamie Show
11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. - Photo contest viewing (Girard Borough building)
1:00 p.m. - Amish bake sale (Wells Park/information booth)
4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. - Chicken dinner (A.F. Dobler Hose & Ladder Company, Walnut Street)
6:00 p.m. - Bike Tour of Dan Rice Monuments (starts at Girard Alliance Church parking lot)
6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. - Rock Snake Painting
8:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. - Tennessee Backporch (main stage), sponsored by Widget Financial
3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. - Yellow/White House open
4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. - Girard United Methodist Church Swiss steak dinner, $15.00