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When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Founded
- 1965
Where?
- Town
- Yarmouth
- Region
- Maine
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
Details
- Website
- clamfestival.com/…
- Status
- unclear
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Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Yarmouth Clam Festival is an annual three-day event which takes place in Yarmouth, Maine, starting on the third Friday every July. Established in 1965 as a successor to the town's late-August Old Home Week, it is hosted by the Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce, with the aim of raising money for approximately thirty local non-profit organizations, churches, and school groups. The event draws visitors from all over the country. As a result, Yarmouth, a town with a population of around 9,000, accommodates approximately 80,000 people over the course of the weekend. A section of the former population have made it a tradition to stake out their Friday-evening parade viewpoint with a chair several weeks before the event — even as early as May, though this may be in an ironic fashion.
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