“When I was first cast at age 3, I was a Yule Log sprite [a character dressed in red and green],” the 19-year-old Bowling Green State University freshman and math-education major remembered. “Then I became a king’s page … and a jester for nine years. Now I’m a friar and a shepherd.”

Silver was referring to the progression of characters he’s portrayed through his childhood and teen years before assuming his latest role as part of Sunday afternoon’s 58th annual Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 343 Wick Ave., near downtown.

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The St. John's Episcopal Church in Youngstown hosted their 58th annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival on Sunday. 

The festival featured bagpipes, drummers and a cast of a hundred people dressed in medieval costumes.

This is the second longest running Boar's Head festival in the country and takes hundreds of people to put on.

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