Rural Fun Day is an annual festival held the last weekend in August in Thomaston, Alabama. The festival is hosted at the Alabama Rural Heritage Center, which was designed and built by Auburn University's Rural Studio. Rural Fun Day is a celebration of rural life and traditions in western Alabama. Activities include gospel music, storytelling, quilting, basket weaving, pottery throwing, spinning, tatting, weaving, chair caning, barbecue, Native American crafts, a domino tournament, and a 5K run. The festival is the third-largest held every year in Marengo County, Alabama, after Demopolis' Christmas on the River, and the Alabama Crawfish Festival.
Famous quotes containing the words rural, fun and/or day:
“We realize that we are laggards from the past century, still living in what Marx kindly calls ‘the idiocy of rural life,’ and we know that our rural life is like that of the past, not like that of much of the present.”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“There is nothing like the fun of having brothers,
if there is no rivalry.
There is nothing like the fun of summer rains,
if there is no mud.
There is nothing like the fun of gambling,
if there is no loss.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.
A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.