Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Assignment 1 - Elizabeth Moore - The Bob Evans Farm Festival


My family culture is a little redneck, with rich traditions like our annual trip to the Bob Evans Farm Festival in Rio Grande, Ohio, pronounced “Rye-O-Grand”.  The second weekend of October, we haul our 1960s Airstream to a little campsite down the road from Bob Evans’ original farm. The weekend is rife with bluegrass concerts, lumberjack shows, arts and crafts booths, homemade soup beans, and, my personal favorite, the cow-chip tossing contest. The cow-chip tossing contest - the most highly anticipated event of the year – requires that each team of two fling a dried cow patty down-field and catch it in a 5-gallon bucket. While I have yet to secure the glorious prize for victory in said contest (a t-shirt that reads “Shake my hand, I won the Bob Evans cow-chip-tossing contest”), I placed 2nd in the HIGHLY competitive adult division. Also, my nutcracker obsession is borderline concerning (see below).

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