The Maine Potato Blossom's Festival takes place every year in Fort Fairfiel, a small town in Aroostook County, Maine, on the US border with Canada. Fort Fairfield is simply beautiful in July: visitors come over the hills into Aroostook County to see field after potato's plants field and their blossoming flowers.
The programme begins on Tuesday, July 11th with a Gospel Music Festival. This is followed by beauty contest for all ages; there is a bicycle rodeo and a five-mile walking race; there are cooking contest for the best potato recipe and the best pie; street dances and barbecues. The festival parade takes place on Saturday, 22nd there's a horse show, a regatta and a duck race on the river. The festival ends in real style, with music and fireworks over the River Aroostook. And we musn't forget the mashed potato wrestling: the men watch and eat, while the women battle in a giant mashed-potato ring!
Glossary:
Potato Blossom: Floração da batata Inglesa
Cooking Contest: Concurso de Cozinha
Recipe: Receita
Fireworks: Fogos de Artifícios
Mashed potato wrestling: Luta Livre no purê.
Period: De época
Settlers: Pioneiros
Search: Speak up magazine, issue 242
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