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Connecticut Sheep and Wool Festival in Connecticut, the last weekend in April; New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, on Mother's Day weekend ; Massachusetts Sheep and Wool Festival in Cummington, at the end of May ; Fiber Arts and Animals Festival in Marshall, Michigan on the second or third Saturday in June.
The festival was established in 1998 and is run by volunteers. It takes place in September over a weekend and has up to 150 businesses taking part, with 99% being local and Welsh retailers. It has up to 7,000 visitors (2017). There is an entrance fee for adults. [1] The festival has food stalls from local and Welsh producers.
In the late 1960s, a fundraising initiative by Ivor Badham for Narberth A.F.C. “ended up as a stream of up-and-coming bands” heading to the hall [6] playing to crowds of up to 1,000 people (pre-health and safety laws). [7] The revenue from the gigs meant Narberth A.F.C. was able to build a brand-new football stadium. [8]
The Knit Knot Tree in Yellow Springs, Ohio Yarn bombing for a town festival in Romsey, Hampshire, England. Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.
It was an annual event organized by the National Wool Growers Association (U.S.), American Sheep Producers Council, and the Wool Bureau, Inc. at San Angelo, Texas, from 1952 to 1972. Originally a Texas-only event (the Miss Wool of Texas Pageant), it attracted wider entrants from 1958 and evolved into a national pageant.
Narberth may refer to: Narberth, Pembrokeshire, a town in Wales Narberth Hundred, a traditional hundred of Pembrokeshire, Wales; Narberth, Pennsylvania, a town in the US;
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In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m 2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him.