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OAC Grant Helps with downtown Sorghum Festival Entertainment - Sept 22, 2015
With the help of a $2500 grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council, the 47th Annual Sorghum Festival will feature live music from local bands. Each year the festival hosts a variety of musicians that specialize...
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Wewoka Sorghum Festival Celebrates 40 Years of Raisin’ Cane
The 40th annual Wewoka Sorghum Festival will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24 in downtown Wewoka and at the Seminole Nation Museum, located at 524 S. Wewoka Ave., Wewoka, Okla. This family-friendly celebration is sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
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Wewoka Sorghum Day Car Show - March 25, 2015
Awards include plaques for: Top 15 Stock Cars, Top 20 Modified Cars, Top 10 Stock Trucks, Top 10 Modified Trucks, Top 5 All Imports, Best Vintage, Best Classic, Best Custom, Best Paint, Best Interior and Best of Show. $100.00 for car club with the most entries.
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Sorghum Syrup Revived by Accidental Artisans - Oct. 22, 2014
At the end of the month, show horses, marching bands and a "Brothers of the Brush" beard and mustache display will celebrate sorghum at the festival in Wewoka, Okla., where you can spread the syrup on Indian fry bread.
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Wewoka Festival Honors Sorghum Syrup - Oct. 11, 2013
Here’s a festival you can really get your teeth into: Every fall, the town of Wewoka, Okla., capital of the Seminole Nation, honors sorghum syrup — that sweet, typically Southern topping to biscuits or pancakes.
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Great State: A Sweet Time in Wewoka - Oct. 29, 2012
The local sorghum cane is a little green this Fall. It's 3 weeks early according to Dan Houser who helps grow Wewoka's crop every year. "Mike Morgan didn't cooperate with us," he chuckles, "and we didn't get the rain." It doesn't make much difference though. The stalks he hauled from the back of his pickup truck made a nice bouquet for the front entrance to the Seminole Nation Museum. Another trailer load of cane from Holdenville actually made the molasses for the Sorghum Festival, which started on a Rotary Club whim back in 1976.
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Wewoka Holds Annual Sorghum Day Festival - Oct. 23, 2010
Second-generation sorghum harvester Dan Houser says the tools of his trade are his mind, strong back and a sharp machete. Houser, 66, and two friends spent most of this week in a field near Wewoka, harvesting sorghum cane for today, the 34th annual Sorghum Day Festival.
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Sorghum Festival - Oct. 18, 2007
Nearly 40,000 people from around the world visit Wewoka on the fourth Saturday in October to join in the annual Sorghum Day Festival. Sorghum Day started in 1976 as a celebration of Wewoka's 110th anniversary. Over the years, the festival has grown and gained national recognition.
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With the help of a $2500 grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council, the 47th Annual Sorghum Festival will feature live music from local bands. Each year the festival hosts a variety of musicians that specialize...
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Wewoka Sorghum Festival Celebrates 40 Years of Raisin’ Cane
The 40th annual Wewoka Sorghum Festival will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24 in downtown Wewoka and at the Seminole Nation Museum, located at 524 S. Wewoka Ave., Wewoka, Okla. This family-friendly celebration is sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
Read More
Wewoka Sorghum Day Car Show - March 25, 2015
Awards include plaques for: Top 15 Stock Cars, Top 20 Modified Cars, Top 10 Stock Trucks, Top 10 Modified Trucks, Top 5 All Imports, Best Vintage, Best Classic, Best Custom, Best Paint, Best Interior and Best of Show. $100.00 for car club with the most entries.
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Sorghum Syrup Revived by Accidental Artisans - Oct. 22, 2014
At the end of the month, show horses, marching bands and a "Brothers of the Brush" beard and mustache display will celebrate sorghum at the festival in Wewoka, Okla., where you can spread the syrup on Indian fry bread.
Read More
Wewoka Festival Honors Sorghum Syrup - Oct. 11, 2013
Here’s a festival you can really get your teeth into: Every fall, the town of Wewoka, Okla., capital of the Seminole Nation, honors sorghum syrup — that sweet, typically Southern topping to biscuits or pancakes.
Read More
Great State: A Sweet Time in Wewoka - Oct. 29, 2012
The local sorghum cane is a little green this Fall. It's 3 weeks early according to Dan Houser who helps grow Wewoka's crop every year. "Mike Morgan didn't cooperate with us," he chuckles, "and we didn't get the rain." It doesn't make much difference though. The stalks he hauled from the back of his pickup truck made a nice bouquet for the front entrance to the Seminole Nation Museum. Another trailer load of cane from Holdenville actually made the molasses for the Sorghum Festival, which started on a Rotary Club whim back in 1976.
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Wewoka Holds Annual Sorghum Day Festival - Oct. 23, 2010
Second-generation sorghum harvester Dan Houser says the tools of his trade are his mind, strong back and a sharp machete. Houser, 66, and two friends spent most of this week in a field near Wewoka, harvesting sorghum cane for today, the 34th annual Sorghum Day Festival.
Read More
Sorghum Festival - Oct. 18, 2007
Nearly 40,000 people from around the world visit Wewoka on the fourth Saturday in October to join in the annual Sorghum Day Festival. Sorghum Day started in 1976 as a celebration of Wewoka's 110th anniversary. Over the years, the festival has grown and gained national recognition.
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