(Variations are more or less endless. We remember playing pin the tail on Eeyore, pin the baseball in the mitt and pin the nose on the clown, and so on ad infinitum.) Hijinks ensue when participants ...

A black tuft of fur is atop the headband. Eeyore’s gray tail hangs from the back of the headband, with a pink satin bow above a tuft of hair at the end. The outside of the headband is gray.

Eeyore’s Birthday Party is, in short, a hippie’s paradise. The weirdest springtime tradition in town will mark its 60th edition on April 26 at Pease Park. In a city that changes more than it ...