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The first Paducah
Summer Festival was held in June of 1967 after Governor Ned Breathitt
requested that all communities in Kentucky do something
special to help celebrate Kentucky's 175th Anniversary year...1967. On
the corner of the stage at the riverfront, there is a plaque, embedded in
the concrete, to Mayor Tom Wilson who started this festival. Since the
West Kentucky area has the greatest concentration of major navigable
rivers in the world, and since Paducah is located at the junction of the
Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, activity on the riverfront and river oriented
activity was a logical choice for the '67 celebration. Such activities
are still the backbone of the Summer Festival.
The purpose of the
Summer Festival is to hold a celebration that will involve the community,
provide wholesome entertainment and inspire pride in Paducah and the
Western Kentucky area. Popular events are repeated every year as well as
some new dimensions added. Some activities included are free nightly
concerts, Kidz Day in the Park, lawnmower races, hot air balloons, Marine
Industry Days and various competitions.
Make plans to join us
at the Paducah Summer Festival...you'll be glad you did!
estival
(ES-ti-vuhl) adjective, also aestival
Relating to or
occurring in summer.
[From Latin aestivus
(or or relating to summer) via Old French.]
"Phaedrus's
dialogue with Socrates takes place in a rustic locale `consecrated to
Achelous and some of the nymphs' near a pleasant brook during the hours
of estival noontime heat." Twyla Meding, Pastoral Palimpsest:
Writing the Laws of Love in L'Astree, Renaissance Quarterly (New York),
Winter 1999.
"I opted for a
summer appetizer special of thinly sliced porcini mushrooms drizzled with
gloriously fragrant olive oil and topped with snippets of parsley...
Three globes of homemade apricot sorbet and biscotti ended the meal on a
suitably estival note." Jessica Harris, East Village Other, The
Village Voice (New York), Jul 20, 1999.
Reprinted from www.wordsmith.org; A.W.A.D. (A.Word.A.Day.); July 11,
2002
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