Established by Frank E. Funk in 1914, the Winchester Race Track is the nation’s second oldest on-going race track and its fastest one-half mile race track. In the early and middle years of the 20th century, Mill’s Lake and Funk’s Lake, both between Winchester and Farmland, were important gathering places for dances, boat rides, roller and ice skating, swimming, and other recreation. Goodrich Park was established in 1915 through a donation by Winchester’s Goodrich family. In 1936, land earlier donated to Winchester by brothers William and Charles Beeson became the Beeson Park Memorial Golf Course, later expanded in the 1980s into a 27-hole course. Harter Park in Union City and Hickory Hills Golf Course near Farmland also offered golf opportunities. In 1947, the Winchester Jaycees established the Pumpkin Festival to raise funds to combat rheumatic fever, and the Fall Festival evolved into the annual Mardi Gras, while Heritage Days in Union City became another important annual festival. Red Sails, raised on the Herbert T. King farm near Crete, was one of the greatest race horses produced by Indiana. Randolph County athletes who advanced to college or professional sports included Losantville’s Claude Berry, a catcher from 1904 to 1915 for the Chicago White Sox, the Philadelphia A’s, and the Pittsburgh Rebels; Winchester’s Troy Levi Puckett, who pitched two innings in one game for the 1911 Philadelphia Phillies; and Union City’s Rick Enis, who starred in the mid-1970s as a running back for the Indiana University Hoosier football team before becoming a professional boxer. Since 1957, the Farmland Conservation Club, Inc. has offered fishing, shooting, archery, camping, and dog training. Thousands of Randolph County High School students have taken part in Hoosier Hysteria, and the Winchester Community High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams were runner-up in the IHAAS’s Division II Basketball Tournament five times between 1999 and 2019. Farmland’s Ansel Toney gained a national reputation for his original kites and the nickname The Kite Man. The Randolph County Airport was founded in 1948, and since 1950 it and Randolph County Civil Defense have co-hosted the annual Fly-In Breakfast, drawing more than 100 pilots and aircraft from around the Midwest each June. Beginning in the early 1970s, the Winchester Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival became an annual event drawing artists and patrons from Hawaii and many other states, and since 1981 the YMCA of Randolph County has provided physical fitness, recreation, community, and child care services.