Small towns

[Floorist]

We have our annual town festival (Bushwhacker Days) every year on this weekend. Tonight we'll grab the lawns chairs, walk up to the courthouse lawn (2 blocks for us) and listen to a local country band. Doesn't get any better than living in a small town.

Oh, it's the Marci Mitchell band, she has done a couple nationwide tours. Today we had a car show, carnival. etc. All the usual small town stuff. And I know almost everyone.http://www.bwdays.com/

 

[DarisMulkin]

So how did the event get its name? Hatfield and McCoy days? What are you considering a small town?


Daris

 

[Floorist]

Bushwhackers were the local pro-south raiders during the civil war. Northern troops burnt our town to the ground during the war. Nevada is about 8000 people,with 23,000 in the whole county.

 

[Ernesto]

The name of onea my favorite songs. I used to live in a small town, now it's huge.

 

[highup]

Bushwhackers were the local pro-south raiders during the civil war. Northern troops burnt our town to the ground during the war. Nevada is about 8000 people,with 23,000 in the whole county.

Our town is around 16,000 and the county probably 55,000 I think.
Wow, I live in a BIG town!
We have another town bordering us, so in reality the local area is closer to 26,000.
We have a couple of events during the summer. One is just called the Fun Festival, the other is the Blackberry Arts Festival. The later is a downtown event to with vendors selling hand made artsy stuff. It hosts a beer garden and music too.

Fun Festival was started back about 1972 or so by the mayor, who though the town needed an annual community event.
It's probably a lot like yours, with a parade, lots of food and vendors, different bands. It's gotten bigger every year. That said, I don't go to it every year........... those are a social events. ....and Highup isn't one to flock to social events very often. It would be different if I had a wife and kids.
The Fun Festival starts off with the Prefontain Memorial Run which is an event that celebrates the life of our local hero Steve Prefontain, a local distance runner that set records every place he ran. There are always runners from out of state, or out of the country that come to participate in re running Pre's grueling local 10k practice route.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Prefontaine
Pre's college coach Bill Bowerman, along with Phil Knight, founded Nike. Steve became an 'employee' of some sort. I think Bill used Steve to test and give feedback to create the best running shoe available at the time.
http://www.prodirectselect.com/sports-legends/steve-prefontaine.aspx
Cruise the Coos is kind of the grand finale of the Fun Festival. It's an annual summer car cruise that attracts a lot of classic and custom cars. That event is more to my liking.

http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_fb020536-56bb-5d58-bc7f-8ee176bd5e1b.html

 

[highup]

We have our annual town festival (Bushwhacker Days) every year on this weekend. Tonight we'll grab the lawns chairs, walk up to the courthouse lawn (2 blocks for us) and listen to a local country band. Doesn't get any better than living in a small town.

Oh, it's the Marci Mitchell band, she has done a couple nationwide tours. Today we had a car show, carnival. etc. All the usual small town stuff. And I know almost everyone.http://www.bwdays.com/

I noticed in the line of events, the Texaco Country Showdown. There's one here too, in July.
http://theworldlink.com/entertainme...cle_8c6e6641-f19e-53f8-8952-2e816b90f07f.html

Also noted that I didn't see your name listed as a sponsor.

 

[Ernesto]

Rusty, you know almost 8,000 people? wow

 

[Floorist]

My family came here right after the civil war. My dad and uncles ran construction companies, etc. I have installed here, since I came back in 1992. My grandparents(Baker) had 13 kids, so several hundred here are relatives.