The curly haired caveman in the picture below looks a friendly sort - and he is.
Even when the photo was taken in 1965 the young Frank Miller was a veteran of the festival day fun.
As a young child he took part, riding on the tableaux.
He later learned that if you were one of the kids walking at the back of the parade you could get six pence ... so he joined them!
Frank was brought up on Beacon Grove, on Garstang's Hazelhurst estate and attended SS Mary and Michael School and then St Peter's RC
Secondary School in
Lancaster before going on to be an apprentice with Leyland Motors.
The company offered him the chance of a
student apprenticeship scheme in design engineering at Loughborough
University, following which he continued working for Leyland until 1976.
In that year he decided on a career change and moved into teaching, training at St Martin's College, Lancaster.
Since then he has taught at two schools, Our Lady's High and from 1987 at Broughton High.
His subject was IT, a subject useful in any school. In fact at Broughton his IT skills have resulted in him moving from a teaching role to that of the school's admin officer.
But why the mid-career move from industry?
Frank answers that it stemmed from his love of being with children, seeing them enjoying themselves.
From 1971 to 1981 he had run a youth club at SS Mary and Michaels, Garstang, for the 14+ age group, something which he thoroughly enjoyed.
And it was in the early 1970s he joined the festival committee, initially helping with the house to house collections, helping prepare the festival field and then helping to organise the fancy dress entries.
In the mid-1970s he took over the microphone duties.
He says no-one else wanted the job, and he was happy to do it, saying (without vanity) that he knew he was not afraid to speak in public.
From 1976 to 1996 Frank was also vice-chairman of the festival, working under the leadership of Eddie Livesey.
The staging and PA equipment is set up on festival day morning, and for all but one of the past 30-plus years Frank's voice has been heard around the High Street explaining and promoting the day's events.
He uses only a few notes for his commentary, and invariably mentions some of the people involved in the organisation.
The only festival day he has missed was in 1982 when he travelled to Manchester with a party from SS Mary and Michael to see Pope John Paul on the day of the papal visit to the city.
Frank recalls: "We did manage to make it back to see the end of the evening procession though!"
Frank, 59, puts the on-going success of the festival down to the large number of volunteers involved in the organisation - who work well together both before and during the event.
"People believe in it, it is a magic day," he says.
He believes the highlights of the day are the processions (one in the morning and one in the evening).
After Frank's morning stint at the microphone he has lunch with the newly-crowned Garstang queen, visiting queens, and VIPs, as well as helping the judges who decide on the tableaux prizes.
Wife Anne, who can also be seen in the caveman picture, is fully supportive of Frank's work, and keen festival fan herself. The couple have two children, Philip, who lives in Kent, Karen who lives in Morecambe, and three grandchildren.
Outside festival activities, one of his main hobbies is running, something he took up 15 years ago to keep get his weight down.
He is a member (and current chairman) of Garstang Running Club and has taken part in 11 marathons, including the London marathon (five times).
In total he has raised more than £4,000 for various organisations such as the North West Childrens Holiday Fund, UNICEF, Send a Cow to Africa and Hummingbirds Nursery, as a result of his marathon efforts.
l Garstang Festival is being held on Spring Bank Holiday Monday (May 26). Further details appear elsewhere in this week's Courier.