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Old 05-14-2005, 01:37 PM   #1
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Looby\'s SQOTD 5/14/05

Does your town have a town celebration/carnival/festival?

Here in Pensacola, we celebrate Mardi Gras among other things, and the county fair is here in the fall . . .

The town I grew up in in Oregon has a celebration with local merchants, crafts, food and a carnival celebrating the gold mining heritage of the town. Then in September (I think) hey host the annual Animal House celebration . .. because the movie "Animal House" was filmed partly in our town and partly in Eugene, OR (just 20 miles north of us)!!!
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The first weekend of June is Old Port Fest where the Old Port fills with vendors and radiostations and entertainers and all kinds of fun things. Then at night it's a PARTY. It was almost a holiday for me and my friends for a while there...but now I just do the day stuff with my nephew.

We also do New Years Portland, and there are separate Italian and Greek festivals by their respective churches.
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We have community day here in Whitefield every August - it's a big festival with kids activities, food, fun, etc. to raise money for the rec. dept.

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Funny you should ask today! This weekend is our annual Barbeque Festival as we have self-names our town the Barbeque Capital of the World. Several of the Catholic churches have a barbeque cook off that draws over 50,000 people to our river front. We also have a Dulcimer Festival, Bluegrass Festival, plus about 15 others. We're really into festivals here.
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In my "hick" town we have the Hometown Festival the second weekend in Sept. every year. It used to be called the Bavarian Festival since we are a German town but for whatever reason the changed the name. It's pretty boring!

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There is normally the Croydon Carnival in May or July I think - I haven't seen it since I was a child.
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Oue neighborhood/section of Philadelphia holds it's own July Fourth Parade.
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Lets see we have the Robin Hood Festival (live in Sherwood) and the Onion Festival and an old car show.

Portland's main one is the Rose Festival since we are the city of Roses.
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Every July it's Festival Month, which includes a range of events, culminating in our River Festival, all centred around the river which runs through the centre of town. It includes an illuminated boat parade and raft race and it's a lot of fun.
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Yep, every Labor Day weekend, our little village of 1200 expands to 100,000 for the annual Milan Melon Festival. Lot's of good food, fun and games, crafts, car show, races, Queen's pageant, and a huge parade. It's one of the most popular festivals in the area. I just wish we had a bigger place to have it other than the town square, cause it's really not big enough to hold that many people. It's totally crazy!
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Re: Looby\'s SQOTD 5/14/05

In the past couple of years we have had some carnivals come through a couple of times a year. We do have the Dogwood festival(last month) it's a week long thing parades, pagents, street festivals. Another street festival in Sept. that celebrated all the cultures and nationalities in the area. On Fort Bragg they have a fair that comes twice a year (it's here now but due to Antonio's behavior at school, he has blown it the past three weeks. No fair for us but it will be back in October (OCtober Fest). So yeah we have a lot going on.
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Living in the Football Capital of the World, we have the Pro Football Hall of Fame festival every year!! It's a lot of fun and a lot of inductees come back to participate in the events.
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Yes, we have a VillageFest in September local businesses enter floats in the parade down Main Street, there are games and a barbecue.
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My hometown has the Dogwood Festival each year, but I've never been. Our county fair comes the week of Labor Day each year. I love the fair...especially fair food! Now that I've moved away, I still go back when the fair is in town. I think it's been #1 in the state of TN a couple of times.
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We have our major festival around Indy 500 time. It's a month long celebration here in Indy! In my hometown of Evansville, we have the Freedom Festival. It's a week long celebration that begins with Thunder on the Ohio (boat race)and ends with the July 4th fireworks.
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