SummerFest: how a fast-growing city still tries to gather like a town

Ankeny’s growth can make it easy to assume its civic life must feel recent or diffuse. SummerFest argues otherwise. The official SummerFest site says the event brings Ankeny and the surrounding metro together for three days of music, carnival rides, local food, and family fun, and the 2026 edition w

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