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First I have to find out if "sesquiduplicentennial" is really a word. I've seen it used in my County for their 250th anniversary, but I can only get one hit on Google and it's not defined in Dictionary.com. That's a trivial part because that may be too far back in history to go anyway. But here's the basic story.

A small town in Southside Virginia is planning for their "sesquiduplicentennial." The story begins on a Sunday in June, with the first planning meeting that Monday night for the celebration a year away. There are two churches in town. Right now one Methodist, one Baptist (that's where I have to check the history timeline). But for some reason, for over 20 years they've only had one Pastor. He preaches at the Methodist Church at the 9:00 service, then at the Baptist church at 11:00. The churches are cordial, but don't really get along. The story takes place over the year with various town events all pointing towards the celebration. At the celebration an errant firework burns one of the churches down on a Saturday night. And the final day is a combined Sunday morning service at one of the churches.

Needs a lot of working out of the detail. I'd like to use the word "sesquiduplicentennial" but I may have to make it a 200 year celebration to really be plausible.