Arkansas’ 10 Unmissable Art and Culture Events in Summer 2014 — theculturetrip.com

Every August in Arkansas, Hope is home to the annual Watermelon Festival. First held for a brief period in the 1920s, the festival was revived in the late 1970s and has continued to grow in popularity ever since. Slices of ice-cold watermelon are sold all around the festival, and melon-centric activities abound with the likes of a seed-spitting contest and a watermelon eating competition. There is also a large gathering of around 300 arts and crafts vendors, who come in from the surrounding states. A light-hearted event where the focus is on celebrating the harvest and having a good time with family and friends, there are plenty of worse places to cool off in high summer than at the Hope Watermelon Festival.

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