Annual Festivals
- The complex's signature event is the annual State Fair of Texas, the largest state fair in the United States by annual attendance, which has been held there since 1886. It currently lasts 24 days and begins in the last Friday in September and runs to the third Sunday in October.
- One of the largest Irish festivals in the country, referred to locally as North Texas Irish Festival, takes place the first weekend in March each year.
- Fair Park Fourth is the annual Independence Day celebration for the City of Dallas.
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Famous quotes containing the words annual and/or festivals:
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)