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BY CHRIS MOORE Delayed for 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Downriver audiences were once again treated to a popular pre-Christmas favorite in December. The Boar’s Head Festival, typically held every four years, returned to a mostly sold-out audience for five performances between December 7th and 10th. The festival’s origins date back to Europe’s Middle Ages when the ferocious boar was thought to be man’s greatest threat and, consequently, considered evil. The boar’s slaying and displaying of its head on a platter represented the triumph of good over evil – a concept that became woven into the Christmas story recalling Christ’s birth. Today’s festival is a colorful spectacle intertwining the legend of the boar’s head, today’s most popular SEE RETURNS, Page 13