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The Alabama Renaissance Faire was created in 1987 by a group of educators and city leaders meeting over the summer. [1] The proposed fairs' purpose was twofold: ..."1) to create a festival that would occur during the school year; and 2) to make sure that the event would include as many subjects within the area schools’ curricular offerings as ...
Included below are the notable Renaissance, Medieval, and Fantasy fairs held in the United States. These include: any long running (20 plus years) fairs, and established fairs (5 plus years) that have a two-weekend or more annual run. Generally, U.S. renaissance fairs are open weekends only (including holidays) during the periods indicated.
The first fair was held November 20–24, 1855 and named the "Agricultural Fair and Cattle Show". [1] Noah Bartlett Cloud, the editor of Cotton Planter magazine (later known as The American Cotton Planter and Soil of the South) publicized the first Alabama State Fair Montgomery. [1]
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
Here's what you need to know about the Kentuck Festival of the Arts, the Moundville Native American Festival, two big concerts and two big UA games.
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September 21 – September 2024 Birmingham shooting: Four people are killed and seventeen others are injured following a mass shooting in Birmingham. [9] September 26 – Alabama executes a man via inert gas asphyxiation using nitrogen in the country's second ever execution by this method. [10]
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