International Falls MN Travel Jul 14, 2007
This fun February festival celebrates the extreme cold with a bit of tongue-and-cheek. Formerly known as Icebox Days, this mid-February festival features the Freeze Your Gizzard Blizzard Run, frozen-turkey bowling, the Ode to Cold Poetry Contest, and Backwoods Karaoke. (Suite101.com)
City to bail out Fur Rondy one more season Oct 4, 2006
If Mayor Mark Begich has his way, Rondy will morph into Winter Fest, an all-encompassing February festival that would include the start of the Iditarod, the Tour of Anchorage ski race and other sporting activities. Anchorage Convention and Visitor's Bureau would market it internationally in hopes of increasing wintertime tourism. (Anchorage Daily News)
Willie's now an under groundhog Jul 13, 2006
His predecessor's passing in 1999 was surrounded by controversy when the groundhog's death was kept secret until the annual February festival. Newspapers and TV stations around the world ran pictures of him lying in state in a pine casket. (Toronto Star -- Ontario)
Telling stories| Mar 19, 2006
The Cevennes is also the venue for Contes et Rencontres (Stories and Encounters), a February festival that harks back to a time before television, when locals would travel to a neighbouring hamlet and spend the evening storytelling, and peeling chestnuts. Today, the storytellers and the audiences come from all over the world. (iAfrica.com)
