what is the best festival in a small town by small town i mean a town with a population under 15,000?
These are some of the best:
The St. George Grits festival:
The Salley Chitlin Strut:
The Irmo Okra Strut:
http://www.irmookrastrut.com/
All are excellent, although the Chitlin Strut has had some financial problems, and unfortunately is in jeopardy.
Why the Manchester Chicken Broil, of course.
(Manchester, MI)
That would be the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
(crud…it was that small 5 years ago, now I’m not so sure…)
Pumpkin Fest - Sycamore, IL
Turkey Testicle Festival - Byron, IL
Fantasy Festival - Key West, FL
(WARNING: Female body art)
http://www.650motorcycles.com/keywest.html
Pumpkin Chunkin - Lewes DE
The Heeney Tick Festival
Autumn Leaf Festival - Clarion, Pennsylvania
MONAHANS, TX:: Butterfield-Overland Stagecoach & Wagon Festival Kicks off with a parade and includes bull rides, vendors, static display of wagons, trail ride, barbeque, street dance and live band, kids games, turtle races, washer tossin’ & horseshoe pitching contests, side walk chalk drawing contest and talent contest.
With turtle races how can it not be the best?
Eighty-Niner’s Day in Guthrie, OK, celebrating what may be the biggest Indian land theft in US history! Hey, I should know, I grew up there …
Mule Day – Columbia TN
There’s several small towns in Wisconsin that have Corn Fests around the end of August. Something like $2.00 admission and all the corn on the cob you can eat.
I love the Corn Fests.
Big corn fest in DeKalb, IL in August too.
Burgoo festival – Utica, IL
Tater Day!
Benton, KY, beginning of April.
Byron Bay Blues Festival population 9,000.
The Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City, KS.