Massachusetts - Fairs and Festivals

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Parrot Head Festival
Lower Lodge Slopeside Deck, Butternut Ski Area, 380 State Road (Route 23)
Great Barrington, MA
Phone: 413-528-2000

March 27, 2010

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Put on your Hawaiian shirt and that funky hat. Bring a laid-back attitude and plan to enjoy some great spring skiing with special cheese burgers and buckets of LandShark lager for sale. Buffet tunes and reggae on the deck - be there for the final sendoff. Time: All day. Information: www.skibutternut.com/

Spring Fling
Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, 37 Corey Road
Hancock, MA
Phone: 413-738-5500

March 20, 2010

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Do you have what it takes to win the annual Cardboard Box Derby? Dig out those bathing suits for the Bikini Slalom, or check out the Beach Blanket Bingo. Enjoy drinks, draughts and donuts at Powder Makers. Spring Fling is one last chance to enjoy some on-snow festivities at Jiminy Peak. Information: www.jiminypeak.com/

Daffodil Festival Weekend
Nantucket, MA

April 23-25, 2010

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The festival’s grand event is the Antique Car Parade on Saturday, featuring over 100 daffodil-bedecked antique cars. The cars are on display from 9:30 a.m. to noon, when they then parade around the down town and drive out to Sconset for the tailgate picnic until 3 p.m. Other highlights include the Nantucket Garden Club’s Daffodil Show, The Annual Daffy Dog Parade, Children’s Daffodil Parade and The Daffy Hat Pageant. Visit our Daffodil Festival page or call 508-228-1700 for more information about the weekend. Information: www.nantucketchamber.org/

Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport, MA

April 23-24, 2010

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Newburyport Literary Festival will open on April 23, the Firehouse Centre for the Arts. Following the opening ceremony. The annual Dinner with the Authors will be held at Nicholson Hall where festival guests and authors can enjoy dinner, conversation and a silent auction to benefit the festival. On April, 24, the festival continues with a full day of activities for readers of every genre beginning with Coffee with the Poets and ending with the closing ceremony. Anita Shreve, author of such works as The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, and Body Surfing, will be the recipient of the first Marquand Prize in American Literature. Information: www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org

Topsfield Fair
207 Boston Street, Route 1
Topsfield, MA  01983
Phone: 978-887-5000
Fax: 978-887-3016

America’s Oldest Fair!
October 2 - October 12, 2009

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The 191st annual Topsfield Fair will run from Friday, October 2, 2009 through Columbus Day, October 12, 2009. The country's oldest continuously operating county fair features family entertainment, agricultural exhibits including the New England Giant Pumpkin weigh-off on opening day, a premier fall flower show, poultry, fruit and vegetables, rabbits, 4-H, a draft horse show, horse and oxen pulling, pigs, goats, sheep, llamas and alpacas, the Essex County Farm Yard, a Farm/Fair Museum, Home Arts, art show and much, much more including the Fiesta Shows Midway.