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ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Watermelon makes the cut in Cave City for festival weekend
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Eric E. Harrison
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Today at 1:44 a.m.
Cave City touts what it bills as the “world’s sweetest watermelons” during the 41st annual Watermelon Festival, today-Saturday. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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Watermelon festival
Cave City touts what it bills as the world s sweetest watermelons during the 41st annual
Watermelon Festival, today-Saturday. The three-day festival features a children s fishing derby, a 5K run, a car show, a pancake breakfast, a parade, speed-eating and seed-spitting contests, a free watermelon feast, a prize melon auction benefiting Arkansas Children s Hospital, a kids wet zone and music, including on Saturday, starting at 5:45 p.m., performances by Anna Brinker, Dixon Street and headliner Tracy Byrd (whose songlist is likely to include his Watermelon Crawl ). A complete schedule and more information i
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