July is meet with local carnival and festival filled with family fun . But even as each fete tries to remain firm out among the others , a few plasterer’s float to the top for their round the bend uniqueness . Here are some that may be deserving plan a route head trip around !
1. UFO Festival
Photograph fromUFO Festival Roswell .
TheUFO Festivalin Roswell , New Mexico , opens today ! And it runs through Sunday . The fete will host twenty guest loudspeaker ina series of lecturesfrom UFOlogists , UFO partisan , and source . One of the most anticipated events isthe costume contest , Saturday morning for dearie and Saturday good afternoon for humans in all eld family . Entrants do n’t just pose ; they also put play into their presentations ! Costume competition participant are invited to return for theUFO Festival Light Parade , after dark on Saturday . There will also be peck of educational events from NASA at the Robert H. Goddard Planetarium , from museum exhibits to tike ’s show to stargazing .
2. Christmas in July Festival
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West Jefferson , North Carolina , does something a small dissimilar for the Fourth of July : they celebrate Christmas!The Christmas in July Festivaltakes place in the business district area tomorrow and Saturday . They ’ve been doing this for 28 long time , even if the festival does n’t always fall on Independence Day . The custom started out as the Ashe County Christmas Tree Festival , to raise the local Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree industry . As with all fete , you may expect musical carrying out , great intellectual nourishment , and local crafts for sale . In addition , you ’ll see Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus , a puppet parade , Civil War struggle re - enactments , and the Christmas tree growers ' competitions . What ? Tree farmer compete in the plant food haversack relay , the one - ton fertilizer relay , a jerk of warfare , and the tree bail contest . That will be something to see !
3. San Fermin in Nueva Orleans
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San Fermin in Nueva Orleanshappens the same weekend as the famed run of the Bulls ( Encierro ) in Pamplona , Spain , which this year is July 10 - 13 . In New Orleans , the fete celebrates in the same way , with one heavy remainder : the " bulls " at this festival are roller derby athletes ! The Big Easy Rollergirls and guests from other roller bowler hat teams dress as fuzz and chase festival patrons through the street of New Orleans . That ’s just one of many events at the annual fete .
4. The Chicken Show
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The annualChicken Showin Wayne , Nebraska , was established in 1981 for several reasons , one of them being that chickens are mirthful . This year ’s show , with the theme “ Cluck Dynasty , ” will be the weekend of July 11 - 13 . The premier result is the poulet grilling contest , along with the red-hot wings eat contest , poulet liberal arts and craft , the reality ’s largest poulet dance , egg toothed wheel , and a cement crybaby vendue . But there are non - yellow events as well : a wine savoring , a Proto-Indo European and icing cream social , the parade , live amusement , a street dance , and firework ,
5. Blobfest
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Blobfestis an one-year street fair , festival , and cinema fete center on around the 1958 horror motion-picture show classicThe Blob , held in Phoenixville , Pennsylvania . Make program now to attend the 2014 Blobfest July 11 - 13 . picture show showings will be at the Colonial Theater , which are not limited toThe Blob : you ’ll see other classic pic and a short pic competition . Other events admit theTinfoil Hat Contest , a parade , street fair , and costume contest . See more at the event’sFacebook page .
6. Hemingway Days
Key West is proud of its most illustrious resident , author Ernest Hemingway , who keep an estate there most of his life . The town has held its tribute fete , Hemingway mean solar day , for 34 years . This year ’s event will be July 15 - 20 , incuding a tribute to what would have been Hemingway ’s hundred-and-fifteenth birthday on July 21st . In add-on to the usual fete events , there will be special literary events , plus a Hemingway lookalike competition , historic tours , the Key West Marlin Tournament , poetry reading , rum taste , and a “ bruiser running , ” with lookalike contestant as the dogshit .
7. Mid-Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge
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The Mid - Atlantic Hermit Crab Challengewill take home on Saturday , July 26th this twelvemonth in Virginia Beach . The primary event is the hermit crab race , in which 300 crab louse are expected to participate . The crab are set in the nub of the race track , and the first to get to the perimeter is the winner . Winners advance to the premiere event , the Crustacean 500 . Trophies are awarded to the top three racers , plus the friendliest , large , most unequalled , etc . crabs . There is also a mantrap pageant called the Miss Curvaceous Crustacean Beauty Pageant . It ’s opened to crabs only , but the displays that people make for them are what really move the judges . The Crab Challenge is free for both neophyte and spectators .
8. World Championship Cardboard Boat Race
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TheWorld Championship Cardboard Boat Racetakes place on July 26th at Sandy Beach in Heber Springs , Arkansas . The cardboard boat that not only survives the race , but wins , will take in the Pride of the Fleet Award . The boat that has the most spectacular sinking feeling will get the Titanic Award -and mayhap YouTube fame . There will also be a watermelon eating competition , bouncy amusement , and a volleyball tournament .
