West Side Nut Club Fall Festival
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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 126 booths. Paul Harvey once remarked that only Mardi Gras in New Orleans is larger than the Fall Festival.[2]
The main attraction of the festival is the food, with offerings of standards like corn dogs and corn fritters to the more unusual such as chocolate-covered grasshoppers, brain sandwiches, and alligator stew. All but one booth are run by non-profit organizations.
The festival was first held in 1924 and has featured an appearance by Minnie Pearl in 1947.
In 2007, there were 80,000 persons who attended the first day of the Fall Festival.
[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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