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Hillbilly Days was first founded in 1977 by a group of Shriners as a means to raise money for the Shriners Hospital. [1] Two shriners from the Hillbilly Clan Outhouse No. 2, Howard "Dirty Ear" Stratton and "Shady" Grady Kinney, decided to start the festival in 1976 after visiting a festival in Portsmouth, Ohio.
It is roughly defined as the area between the Mississippi River, Spring, Judson, and 13th Streets, Kirkwood Boulevard and Jersey Ridge Road. The historic district was started as an independent community and became a part of the city of Davenport within five years. Today it is a shopping and entertainment area.
List of known tornadoes during the tornado outbreak of April 1–2, 1974 [nb 3] [nb 4] F# Location County / Parish State Start coord. Date Time Path length Max width Summary F2 NNE of Merigold: Bolivar: MS: April 1: 2110 0.1 miles (0.16 km) —
In 1991 the event moved to Waterfront Park, and Zambelli Fireworks Internationale's Master Pyrotechnician Raymond M Loffredo began handling the fireworks. The Air Show began in 1992, and has featured such notable aircraft as the Harrier , the B-2 (Stealth Bomber) , and the F-117 (Stealth Fighter) as well as the Apache Attack Helicopter .
It runs from Jersey Ridge Road to the Bettendorf city limits, and from River Drive to Middle Road. Four hundred houses make up the McClellan Heights neighborhood, dating from 1905 to 1940. [ 1 ] The land is made up of many hills and ravines; the streets follow the topography, requiring many winding roads and odd-shaped lots. [ 1 ]
Steven Curtis Chapman – April 17, 2010, with Michael W. Smith; Lady Antebellum – April 26, 2010 and August 18, 2011; Sugarland – August 19, 2010, with Little Big Town; Slayer – October 12, 2010, with Megadeth and Anthrax; Keith Anderson – April 1, 2011, with Halfway to Hazard; Jason Aldean – August 20, 2011, with Thompson Square and ...
Jane Austen Festival, [7] a three-day event and the largest Jane Austen event in North America, [8] held on the third weekend of July at Locust Grove; Derby City Comic Con, [9] held in late June; Fandom Fest Comic Expo, [10] held in mid-summer; Forecastle Festival, a three-day nationally renowned music, art and environmental activism festival ...
The properties are distributed across all parts of Davenport. For the purposes of this list, the city is split into three regions: East Davenport, which includes all of the city east of Brady Street (U.S. Route 61) and north of 5th Street; Downtown Davenport, which includes all of the city south of 5th Street from Marquette Street east to the intersection of River Drive (U.S. Route 67) and 4th ...