The Sweet Corn Festival is an annual event that takes place in Fairborn, Ohio on the weekend before schools resume session during the summer months. The Festival sells a variety of merchandise, from corn on the cob and other food sold by vendors as well as stalls that sell anything from jewelry to CDs. Some of the vendors come from out of state to set up their stalls for the festival. The event also hosts live music performed by local bands and artists. Four other locations also hold Sweet Corn Festivals: West Point, Iowa, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Adel, Iowa, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Famous quotes containing the words sweet, corn and/or festival:
“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”
—James Shirley (1596–1666)
“A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the intellectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)