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A family visit to the Twins Days festival illustrates how mobile tools can help visitors navigate events and strengthen their experience.

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Like most weekends in August, this one started sunny and pleasant, with a chance to be hot and humid. The Auth clan—all seven of us—rose early, which is getting harder to do now that we have teenagers amongst us, shuffled to the mini-van and headed northeast to Twinsburg, Ohio.

By 8 a.m., we were gathered on the town square surrounded by thousands of enthusiastic twins—identical, fraternal, old and young—most dressed as some sort of superhero, all ready to parade a half-mile down Main Street to the Twinsburg High School and Twins Days festival grounds.

The clash of the high-school band announced it was time to move out and the whole, boisterous bunch ambled forward, morphing into something resembling a parade.