Sunday, August 19, 2007

Clinton's Little Italy Festival is Labor Day Weekend

The "Little Italy Festival." in downtown Clinton has filled Labor Day Weekend since 1966. Hours on Friday (31 August) are 5-11 p.m., on Saturday and Sunday (1-2 September) 11 a.m.-11 p.m., and on Monday (3 September), 11 a.m.-9 p.m. If you'd like more information, contact Nancy Dal Sasso, 765:832-7254.

Highlights: parade, on-stage entertainment, carnival rides and games, spaghetti-eating contest; tours of 1904 C&EI passenger depot (houses both a railway museum and one of the few coal museums in the nation, with its full-scale mine walk-through and vintage film of mule-powered mining); open-air shuttle to picturesque Ninth Street 'Little Italy' to visit a 1924 Italian home, learn old-days' winemaking, and purchase unique goods at the Italian store.

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