GREENFIELD, Ind. -- More than 400 exhibitors will be set up on the streets of Greenfield this weekend as the annual Riley Festival opened Thursday.

Crews with the FOX59 Morning News took this year's event as an opportunity to showcase not only the festival, but Greenfield as a whole, as part of the Your Hometown series.

According to the festival's website, the exhibitors will be set up on the streets around the town's 100-year-old courthouse for the festival, which lasts through Sunday. The festival celebrates the birthday of famed "Hoosier Poet" James Whitcomb Riley.

Each year, one of Riley's poems is selected as the theme for the respective year's festival. This year's festival will be centered around Riley's "The Yellowbird" poem.

Even though Riley died in 1916, his legacy continues

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