The small community of Wilber and the surrounding area play host to 20,000 to 30,000 visitors who come to the community to celebrate the Czech heritage and eat the traditional Czech foods such as roast duck, roast pork, potato dumplings, kraut, and rye bread and kolaces. Residents of other nationalities become Czechs for the weekend. One of the main events of the festival is a Miss Czech-Slovak National Queen Pageant. Contestants are judged on personality, talent, beauty, and costume. There is also an accordion jamboree featuring from 20 to 30 people playing accordions together all at one time.
People attending the festival wear their Czech costumes.
Children dance in the street, doing the Polka, Beseda, and Waltz. The Wilber Hotel and local churches, along with local restaurants serve authentic Czech foods on their menus. During the festival, and throughout the entire year, visitors can purchase kolaces, rye bread, jaternice, and jelita, souvenirs such as garnets, crystal, Christmas ornaments, decorated eggs, post cards, costumes, cook books and braid or ribbon to decorate each individuals creation. The community of Saline County is an agricultural community, with farmers raising corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, grain sorghum, cattle, and hogs. Local firms offer retain products, services, and manufacuring, including meat processing, aluminum doors and windows, and feed and grain processing.