Wausau Possum Festival
The self-proclaimed Possum Capital of the World stages its legendary one-day folk carnival each August in the Florida Panhandle's deep pine country, complete with a Possum Parade, Hog Callin' and Rooster Crowin' contests, a quilt auction, and the famous Possum Ice Cream made with persimmon.
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"A working Levy County farm opens its pumpkin patch, corn maze, and barnyard each October for a genuine rural harvest festival that gives North Central Florida families a rare taste of agricultural life in one of the state's quietest small-town counties."
Fall Festival at Amber Brooke Farms
"For 50 years this tiny historic town near Gainesville has drawn 25,000 visitors under its live oaks for a one-day festival with 280 arts, crafts, and antiques vendors and free musical entertainment, all run as a community fundraiser to preserve McIntosh's Victorian heritage."
McIntosh 1890s Festival
"On a remote Gulf Coast island accessible by a single causeway, Cedar Key's annual seafood festival celebrates the town's clam farming and mullet fishing heritage with dockside vendors, fresh Gulf catches, and the barefoot island atmosphere of one of Florida's most unspoiled small communities."
Cedar Key Seafood Festival
"Each Halloween weekend, this remote Gulf island stages a boisterous pirate takeover with costumed flotillas arriving by boat, a street fair, live music, and the irreverent coastal community spirit that makes Cedar Key unlike anywhere else in Florida."
Cedar Key Pirate Invasion
"Florida's oldest and most celebrated seafood festival, held since 1963 in the historic oyster-farming capital of Apalachicola Bay, crowns a Seafood Queen, hosts shucking competitions, and fills the waterfront streets of this perfectly preserved Victorian river town with the aroma of fresh-caught Gulf seafood."
Florida Seafood Festival
"Makanda celebrates the annual turkey vulture migration over the Shawnee National Forest with a quirky two-day street festival of local art, handmade crafts, live music, and concessions in its historic village boardwalk."
Vulture Fest
"Since 1978, Banner Elk has settled the winter forecast by racing woolly bear caterpillars up strings, with the Saturday champion earning $1,000 and official meteorological honours for the High Country."
Woolly Worm Festival