Over the three-day course of the Flowertown Festival, visitors might see young children eagerly pushing along a little wooden duck at the end of a stick – maybe it is a penguin, a gator or a goose.

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Ten years ago, when people came into the Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana, they would often gravitate toward loud, bright toys and ignore the quieter ones. Back then, “I would get a lot more, ‘Oh, no, ...