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The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival is an annual gathering of fiber-arts enthusiasts in the United States that draws approximately 30,000 visitors and more than 300 vendors. [1] It is held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York .
Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. [1] The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the ...
The Gathering of Nations was founded by Derek Matthews. [16] The Gathering of Nations has been held at different event locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dating back to at least 1990 through 2016 it was held at the University of New Mexico, most often at the UNM Arena (The Pit), and at the football stadium in 2010.
The Appleby Horse Fair, previously known as Appleby New Fair, is an annual gathering of Romani people (Gypsies) and Travellers in Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England. [1] The horse fair is held each year in early June, attracting roughly 10,000 Romani and Travellers, about 1,000 caravans, several hundred horse-drawn vehicles, and about ...
The prizes are traditionally announced at a gala lunch in June, although in 2020 the proceedings took place online because of COVID-19; [4] [5] the 2025 winner will be announced in July. [ 6 ] There are a number of awards for specific categories of books, and an overall winner is selected as the "Book of the Year".
The festival was started in 1973. [2] In 2003 it attracted over 70,000 people. [2] The 2014 festival was the 40th consecutive. It is sponsored by the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association.
Woolgathering is a practice similar to gleaning, but for wool. The practice was of collecting bits of wool that had gotten caught on bushes and fences or fallen on the ground as sheep passed by. The meandering perambulations of a woolgatherer give rise to the idiomatic sense of the word as meaning aimless wandering of the mind.
Triple pipes, Cumbrian pipes or the cuisle were woodwind musical instruments of medieval Celts, featured in medieval artwork of the Irish, and Scottish and English peoples during the 8th to 12th centuries. [3] They were possibly "precursors" to Irish and English bagpipes and functioned as an organ for the Irish Celtic Church. [3] [5]