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The Daily Yonder The Mothman Festival Is Returning to Point Pleasant, West Virginia While the festival celebrating the famous monster is coming back after a Covid-forced break, the sightings continue, indifferent to the pandemic.
The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Source: Flickr(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
After a year off for the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mothman Festival is hopefully back on again.
The festival, which centers around the legendary Mothman, will take place in late September (as long as Covid-19 stays at bay) in a place where the creature was most prominently spotted – Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The creature’s rise from frightening flying monster to tourism draw includes everything from Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge disaster to a Richard Geer movie. For years, it was a local legend that people told to each other, but it wasn’t something known throughout the country. But town leaders decided in 2002 that they needed a festiva
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Communities in Missouri have an opportunity to put their town or city’s folklore in the spotlight this bicentennial year.
Grants for the Legends & Lore Roadside Marker program is funded fully by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, which established the program to promote cultural tourism and celebrate legends and folklore as part of local and state heritage. Missouri is one of 11 states eligible to receive the grant.
The Missouri Folks Arts Program at the University of Missouri is the state’s organizer for the grant and invites communities across the state to participate.
“We are excited to join colleagues across the country as a Legends & Lore state partner – and to be the first to represent the Midwest,” says Lisa L. Higgins, director of the Missouri Folk Arts Program. “Missouri’s bicentennial year is an inspiring time and we hope Legends & Lore will encourage local communities to mark the Show-Me state’s unique culture in an