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Houby Days
Cedar Rapids, IA · Food & Drink
- When
- May 15–16, 2027
- Where
- Czech Village, 16th Ave SW · Cedar Rapids · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Cedar Rapids' Czech Village celebrates houby, the Czech word for mushrooms, each May with a mushroom hunting contest, polka music and Czech food. Houby Days has run for more than 45 years and anchors the neighborhood's Czech and Slovak heritage calendar.
The history within reach
Hillary Clinton's first attempt at Snapchat, filmed at arm's length on the Cedar River bank in July 2015, produced four words delivered directly into the lens.
The seven Amana Colonies villages, settled by German communal Pietists in the 1850s, mark autumn with a four-day Oktoberfest of German food, beer gardens, and folk dancing centered at the Festhalle Barn.
She passed Pete Maravich's 3,667 points, the all-time NCAA Division I mark, set in 1970 without a three-point line, on a logo three from near halfcourt.
- Herbert Hoover27 mi
Born in a two-room cottage his blacksmith father built, orphaned at nine, and gone west to become a mining engineer and then the man who fed Belgium.
The two-room cottage where Hoover was born, the blacksmith shop like his father's and the hillside where he is buried all sit within a short walk of the library, dedicated in 1962 on his 88th birthday with Harry Truman in the audience.