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.
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“Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
The better cheeses bring ‘em, or else send
By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend
This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear
An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Allen Tate (1899–1979)