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Year 2000 Events
May 15 - Palmyra Municipal Equipment Auction
Sure, doesn't sound very interesting, but you have to see this one to believe
it. Municipalities bring their excess equipment for sale at auction. The draw is
huge. This is a slice of Americana, make no mistake.
June 12 - Spring Fest
Walking tours of the Canal Path and the Village. Worth a try.
July 9, 10, 13-17 - Hill Cumorah Pageant
The largest attended event of the year. Tens of thousands of people from all over
the world come to see the reenactment of the earliest beliefs of the Mormon
faith. At the foot of Hill Cumorah each evening, you can see the production of a
cast and crew of over a thousand people. For believers the production is a
testament of basic beliefs. For others, it is a great spectacle with little or
no religious pressure If you come for only one event, this should be it,
and it is free.
August 9-14 - The Wayne County Fair
One of the last of the genuine rural country county fairs. Held in the center of
the Village of Palmyra, you can see everything from livestock shows to pie
baking contests. Bill Kauffman* expressed upstate New York County Fairs best,
"The whole town turns out for the fairs. The owner of the canning factory
is there, and so is the accountant, and so are the men and women who toil in the
fields or on the assembly line. I won't go so far as to say it's the American
democratic spirit in action - the owner probably isn't buying the third shift
janitor a beer - but it's as close as we ever come anymore." Other than the
lack of a canning factory, this about describes the Wayne County Fair in a
nutshell.
*Country Towns of New York, Bill Kauffman, country Roads Press,
1994
September 18-19 - Palmyra Canaltown Days
A community festival that fills the Village Center with parades, arts and
craft vendors and lots of other events. You can have a wonderful time for next
to nothing. Again, thousands of people visit, and stay, or return home here for a
short time, to celebrate the end of Summer, and the beauty of upstate New York.
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