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What’s Happening in Your Hometown?
Submit your event at www.americanprofile.com/happenings
Or mail to: Happenings. 341 Cool Springs Blvd., Ste. 400. Franklin, N 37067
Happenings must be submitted four months prior to event
COLORADO
Scandinavian Midsummer Festival—
Estes Park, June 26-27. Celebrate Scandi-
navian culture with live musk, folk danc-
ing, a maypole event, food, and am fle crafts
in Bond Park. (970) 586-6073.
jubilee Folk Music Festival —
Silverton, June 25-27. A weekend of toe-
tapping entertainment and fun featuring
performers of many musical genres, as
well as jam sessions, instrument work-
shops, and crafts at the Festival Grounds.
(970) 387-5737.
MONTANA
Milk River Days and Cowboy
Rodeo—Hinsdale, July 3-4. Bring the
whole family for a rodeo, street dance,
parade, cannon shoot, ping pong drop,
childrens activities, fishing, barbecue,
and fireworks. (406) 364-2223.
Fourth of July Powwow—Lame
Deer, July 1-4. Features American Indian
dancing contests, parades, traditional
feasts, drum groups, and a fun run at
Kenneth Beartusk Memorial Powwow
Grounds. (406) 477-6284.
NEW MEXICO
Fourth of July Celebration and
Parade—Raton, July 3-4. Features a
tribute to Vietnam veterans, as well as a
parade, arts & crafts, food, amusement
rides, and live entertainment in Ripley
Park. (877) 684-2055.
International UFO Festival—
Roswell, July 1-4. Celebrate the renowned
Roswell flying saucer incident wirh a sci-fi
movie festival, country music, alien cos-
tume contest and parade,' and fireworks.
(505)625-9495.
OKLAHOMA
Founder’s Day—Duncan, June 26. An
annual celebration of the city's founding
featuring food, am & crafts, live entertain-
ment, a carnival, antique auction, queen
crowning, and street dance downtown.
(580) 252-8696.
Blackberry Festival—McLoudJuly 2-
4. A salute to the blackberry featuring
cobbler-making and eating contests, as
well as a carnival, tractor show, live
music, and fireworks in Veterans Park.
(405) 964-6566.
TEXAS
125th Anniversary Celebration—
Italy, July 2-3. The town celebrates its
1879 founding with a 5K run, fireworks,
music, and performances by the Dallas
Cowboy cheerleaders and Dallas Mavericks
street team. (972) 483-7329.
Red, White, and You—Graham,
July 3- An Independence Day celebration
on the downtown square featuring a null
tary ceremony, jet flyovers, and a parade
mixing patriotic themes with Texas pride
(940) 549-3355.
WYOMING
Pageant of the Old West—Lander,
July 2-4. In its 110th year, this celebration
features the oldest paid rodeo in the
world, as well as an Independence Day
parade, half marathon, and barbecue.
(800) 433-0662.
Cody Stampede—Cody, July 1-4.
The nation’s top cowboys and cowgirls
compete in this annual rodeo, which also
features parades, fireworks, and live miiisx
and entertainment. (8(H)) 207-0744. ^
Tidbit
Did You know...
COLORADO—The Rain of Arrows" off Highway 160 at Mancos (pop
1,119) features seven 30-foot-tall arrows, which look as if thev're stuck in the
ground, and three 25-foot-rail teepees. Created wirh the help of local Navaio in
1959, it was refurbished in 2000 when the Hampton Inn hotel company helped
repaint the arrows and recreate the teepees American Indian artwork.
When it was founded in the early 1860s, Walsenburg(pop. 1,182) was known as Plaza
de Los Leones, after an early Spanish settler. It was renamed in the 18"(>s to recognize
prominent businessman Fred Walsen, who opened the area's first coal mine m 1876.
In the 19.30s, Walsenburg was known as "The City Built on Coal."
MONTANA—After a Kansas City, Mo., radio station contacted residents of
ismay (pop. 26) in 1993, they agreed to temporarily change the town's name to Joe,
in recognition of the Kansas City Chiefs then-new quarterback. Joe Montana.
NEW MEXICO—Construction began on the Vietnam Veterans National
Memorial near Angel Fire (pop. 1,048) in 1968, after Marine Lt. David Westphall was
killed in an ambush in Vietnam. Westphall s parents used his military life insurance
payout to start the memorial, which includes a chapel with curving walls that soar
up to 50 feet high. Originally dedicated in 1971, the site now includes a 6,000-
square-foot visitor's center, and is on its way to becoming a new state park.
OKLAHOMA—Mystery author Tony Hillerman—respected tor his portrayals
of Navajo ways—was borri in May 1925 in Sacred Heart, near Asher (pop. (19),
where he attended a boarding sc hool for Ament an Indians. Hillerman was awarded
the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart, after being wounded in World War II
His first novel, Tht Biasing Way, was published in 1970.
TEXAS—With more than (2,000 military personnel and 3*40 square miles of
land. Fort Hood—located near Killeen and Copperas Cove (pop, 29,592)—is
reported to be die nation s largest active-duty armored post, and is die only post in the
nation that tan support two full armored divisions. Construction started in 19-42 for
the base, which was named for Confederate Army Gen. John Bell Hood.
LnneStar Tower at Texas Motor Specxlway in Justin (pop. 1,891) is a 10-story building
that contains 76 luxury condominiums, some measuring more than 3,100 square feet.
Tlx* building, which also contains office space, towers over rum two at the speedway.
WYOMING—Within 36 hours of Wyoming's Amber Alert system—designed
to notify state residents of a missing child—being implemented in January 2004, the
stare's first alert was initiated, at the request of Utah officials. The abducted child was
found safe in Rawlins (pop. 8,538) tour hours later. ^
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