Sept. 1-4 • Mercer Mercer Homecoming 660-953-0861 Sept. 1-4 • Stover Small Animal Swap 573-789-5905 Sept. 1-4 • Dixon Bluegrass Pickin’ Time Festival Carol Jones Pitts Memorial Park 573-759-3544 www.bluegrasspickintime.com Sept. 1-5 • Brookfield 35th Great Pershing Balloon Derby 660-258-7255 www.pershingballoonderby. com Sept. 2 • Kimberling City Artist Meet and Greet Table Rock Art Guild Gallery 417-739-5829 www.tablerockartguild.com Sept. 2 • Billings Antique Classic Tractor Pull Billings City Park 417-744-2118 Sept. 2-5 • Deepwater Deepwater Labor Harvest Picnic 109 Years of Tradition 660-438-9828 Sept. 2-5 • Gainesville A Pre-1840s Fur Trade Rendezvous County Road 831 417-683-2764
photo by Bob McEowen
Sept. 9-10 • Conway Conway Community Days Downtown 417-589-2893 Sept. 9-10 • Buffalo 9th Annual SW MO Celtic Heritage Festival and Highland Games Old City Park and Fairgrounds 417-345-2852 Sept. 9-11 • Winigan 73rd Annual Winigan Fair 660-857-4796 Sept. 9-11 • Miami Route 66 Association of Missouri’s 22nd Anniversary Motor Tour 314-776-7385 Sept. 10 • Owensville Heritage Day and Heartland Quilt Guild Show 573-694-9204 or 573-885-4033 Sept. 10 • Ashland Ashland Fall Festival Ashland City Park 573-657-2091 www.ashlandmo.us Sept. 10 • Nevada NHS Tiger Pride Marching Band 5K Run/Walk Nevada High School 417-667-1480 Sept. 10 • Bolivar Craft Fair Polk County Museum 417-253-2605 The 35th annual Great Pershing Balloon Derby will fill the skies above Brookfield on Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 1-5. The event is the longest-running continuously sanctioned ballooning event in the nation, according to the Balloon Federation of America. For more information on the derby, call 660-258-7255 or visit www.pershingballoonderby.com. Sept. 10 • Sullivan Friends of NRA Dinner and Auction Eagles Hall 573-927-5373 Sept. 10-11 • St. Joseph Coleman Hawkins Blues Festival Downtown 816-253-9824 www.colemanhawkins.org Sept. 10 • Summersville Hometown Reunion Community Center 417-736-2441 Sept. 10 • Shelbina Farmer’s 5k Walk 573-588-4107 or 573-822-4108 Sept. 10 • Wentzville Firefighters Fight Like A Firefighter 2011 636-262-1612 Sept. 10 • Dixon The Show-Me Shrimp Festival 417-664-2307 www.showmeshrimpfarms. com Sept. 10 • Steelville Golden Oldies Show Meramec Music Theatre 573-775-5999 Sept. 10-11 • Hermann Hermann Country Fair Hermann Farm 573-486-3276
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Sept. 3 • High Point High Point Homecoming High Point School Grounds 660-489-2200 Sept. 3 • Apple Creek St. Joseph Parish Picnic 573-788-2588 Sept. 3 • Van Buren City Wide Yard Sale Business 60 573-323-4335 Sept. 3 • Sedalia Georgetown School and Community Reunion Basket Dinner Georgetown School 660-827-2169 Sept. 3 • Florida Mark Twain Festival Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site 573-565-3440 www.mostateparks.com Sept. 3 • Crocker Railroad Days Downtown Cocker to the park 573-736-5327 Sept. 3 • Lebanon Trash to Treasure Swap Meet Lebanon Fairgrounds 417-286-3208 Sept. 4 • Augusta Labor Day BBQ Mount Pleasant Estates 636-482-9463
Missouri Happenings
Events are published as space allows and must be submitted at least 60 days in advance. Include a telephone number for publication. Send materials to Rural Missouri Events Calendar, P.O. Box 1645, Jefferson City, MO 65102; e-mail events@ruralmissouri.coop or fax 573-636-9499. Dates and times are subject to change; please call ahead. For more information, go to www.visitmo.com.
Sept. 4 • Mary’s Home Our Lady of the Snows Parish Picnic Fried Chicken and Roast Beef Dinner Parish Center 573-498-3599 Sept. 4 • Innsbrook Annual VIGC Market Innsbrook Conference Center 636-791-2041 Sept. 5 • Montrose Annual Labor Day Picnic Immaculate Conception Church 660-693-4651 Sept. 8-10 • Seymour Seymour Apple Festival On the square 417-935-2580 Sept. 8-10 • Huntsville 123rd Randolph County Old Settlers and Fall Fair Reunion 660-676-6454 Sept. 8-11 • Boonville Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association’s 48th Annual Back to the Farm Reunion Brady Showgrounds 660-248-3045 Sept. 9-10 • Walnut Grove Walnut Grove Annual Possum Trot Days School and City Park 417-994-2593 www.walnutgrovemo.com Sept. 9-10 • Moberly 4th Annual Fall Open House 660-263-2708 www.moberlychamber.com Sept. 9-10 • Columbia Roots ’N Blues ’N BBQ Festival Downtown 573-442-5862 www.rootsnbluesnbbq.com
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http://www.bluegrasspickintime.comhttp://www.pershingballoonderby.comhttp://www.pershingballoonderby.comhttp://www.tablerockartguild.comhttp://www.ashlandmo.ushttp://www.pershingballoonderby.comhttp://www.colemanhawkins.orghttp://www.visitmo.comhttp://www.mostateparks.comhttp://www.walnutgrovemo.comhttp://www.showmeshrimpfarms.comhttp://www.showmeshrimpfarms.comhttp://www.moberlychamber.comhttp://www.rootsnbluesnbbq.comhttp://WWW.RURALMISSOURI.COOP
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