# Small town festivals **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793 "2019-07-29T03:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/61 "2019-08-01T12:38:12Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > So what about Iron City which I believe left Pittsburgh for there? > > Not that I liked either one anyway. I would rather grab a Gibbons and twist the head off that monkey. Iron City was a very complicated situation. The brewery was repeatedly bought out by people who wanted to make Iron City a national brand, competing with Budweiser. Each new owner wanted different things and yet had no background in brewing. Then there was the billing dispute over a 4 million dollar unpaid water bill. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/62 "2019-08-02T01:19:28Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Which sort of lead me to this article > [The 9 Weirdest And Wackiest Festivals In Pennsylvania You Can’t Miss This Year](https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/festivals-in-pa-2018/) > and plans for yet another trip to Ebensburg. :smack: I worked PotatoFest last year. It’s a fun day but you can NOT park anywhere near the place. Even we vendors had to take the shuttle. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/63 "2019-08-02T19:07:58Z")
I’m a little bummed. I was going to mention a small-town festival that I’ve always wanted to attend, the [Moose Dropping Festival in Talkeetna, Alaska](https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/10-of-the-worlds-weirdest-festivals/moose-dropping-festival). Unfortunately, I just learned that the [last time the festival was held was in 2009](https://www.frontiersman.com/news/future-of-moose-dropping-festival-unclear/article_d0e3daa0-8f27-5f89-a950-f803a91d25f2.html). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/64 "2019-08-02T19:51:23Z")
Last summer I attended the [Apple Scrapple Festival](http://www.applescrapple.com/) in Bridgeville, Delaware. It’s a town of about 2,000 bracketed by its two major employers: Rapa Scrapple and the Purdue Chicken plant. The festival literally takes over the entire town, with carnival rides, food vendors, crafts, scrapple-related activities, live music, there was a surprising amount of stuff there, and huge amount of people show up; I’d say the town’s population easily quadruples that weekend. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/65 "2019-08-02T20:41:26Z")
Riverfest (May) and the Totah Festival (Sept), Farmington, NM Aztec Highland Games and Music Festival, Aztec, NM Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention, Westminster, MD International Pancake Day/International Pancake Race, Liberal, KS Flame Tree Festival, Saipan Guymon Pioneer Days and Rodeo, Guymon, OK Now-defunct events: Renaissance Faires in both Farmington, NM and Angola, IN, Gallup Celtic Music Festival, Gallup, NM I’m sure there’s more, but this is all I can come up with right now. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/66 "2019-08-02T20:45:53Z")
I already posted this in the thread about strange museums, but it probably actually belongs in this thread. In conjunction with the Mustard Museum, Middleton, Wisconsin is holding its [Mustard Festival](https://mustardmuseum.com/annual-national-mustard-day/2019-mustard-day/) tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793/67 "2019-08-03T00:20:55Z")
Pretty near every town around here has at least one; some have more than one. You can celebrate grapes, or wine, or mint, or being Italian, or let’s-everybody-have-a-yard-sale (more than one town now does this; there are generally also food booths and other miscellaneous commotion), or music of various types in various places, or artwork (again, multiple towns), or the Women’s Rights Convention, – I’m sure I’m leaving something out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-festivals/837793.md?page=3)