Cookies in time

Several days of baking led up to a two-hour period Saturday afternoon, Dec. 6, when an annual sweet tradition took shape.

As people lined up outside the Senator Walter Lowrie House 30 minutes before the Cookie Walk was scheduled to begin, it was clear the few thousand cookies piled atop trays in the Butler County Historical Society museum were completely necessary.

Mackenzie Herold, executive director of the Butler County Historical Society, said after running out of cookies for the first two years of the group’s Cookie Walk, its organizers learned just how much preparation was needed for it.

“There are people who bake 80 dozen for us,” Herold said Saturday, from behind a table containing stacks of to-go containers. “You just keep going until you run out of space in you

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