Raw States
Lisbon Sauerkraut Days
Lisbon, IA · Quirky
- When
- August 13–15, 2027
- Where
- 115 N Washington Street · Lisbon · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A small-town institution in Lisbon built around free Frank's Kraut, bathtub races, a Kraut Route 5K, and a 'Cabbage Head' car show. The festival runs each August in downtown Lisbon.
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.
- Herbert Hoover18 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.
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.
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.