West Side Nut Club Fall Festival
Evansville's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is held the first full week of every October on Franklin Street in Evansville, Indiana by Evansville's West Side Nut Club. It draws approximately 150,000 people each year.[1]
The West Side Nut Club cordons off four blocks of West Franklin Street for rides and food booths. Paul Harvey once remarked that only Mardi Gras in New Orleans is larger than the Fall Festival.[2]
The festival was first held in 1924.
[edit] Traditions
Normally, the Fall Festival commences on a Sunday and runs all week. Each day there are several music and dance performances by local bands and youth. Saturday, the last day of the festival, is marked by a parade.
The main attraction of the festival is the food, with offerings of fair standards like corn dogs and corn fritters to the more unusual such as chocolate-covered grasshoppers, brain sandwiches, and alligator stew. In addition to the rides are many different games with various prizes. There is also many games and rides. There is also the tradition of a talent contest, and pig and piglet wrestling. Whoever can catch the slippery pig the fastest wins.
[edit] References
- ^ "83rd annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival opens Monday October 5, 2009". Hoosier Gazette. http://www.hoosiergazette.com/2004/October/News/news001.asp. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Fall Festival brings years of traditions, changes to streets of Evansville's West Side". Evansville Courier & Press. http://www.courierpress.com/news/2006/oct/01/steeped-in-history/. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
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