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In the days leading up to the 2022 festival, Hoodoo Week will help build excitement amongst local residents with the artists and event organizers.
Hobo King and Queen at the 2015 Convention. The National Hobo Convention is held on the second weekend of every August since 1900 [1] in the town of Britt, Iowa, organized by the local Chamber of Commerce, and known throughout the town as the annual "Hobo Day" celebration.
Hoodoo is an ethnoreligion that, in a broader context, functions as a set of spiritual observances, traditions, and beliefs—including magical and other ritual practices—developed by enslaved African Americans in the Southern United States from various traditional African spiritualities and elements of indigenous American botanical knowledge.
In Moses, Man of the Mountain, anthropologist and Hoodoo researcher Zora Neale Hurston refers to Moses as "the finest Hoodoo man in the world." [10] The Christian Bible is also revered as a talisman, a book of spells used to obtain the blessings and healings of God. For members of the Hoodoo community, the Bible is greatest book of conjure. [11]
Enjoy the last blast of summer in Johnson County with these five events, from Rock the Chalk in Iowa City to Hoover's Hometown Days in West Branch
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As of the census of 2020, [7] there were 918 people, 363 households, and 240 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,448.1 inhabitants per square mile (559.1/km 2).