{"id":35096,"date":"2016-08-04T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=35096"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T17:49:43","slug":"water-valleys-47th-watermelon-carnival-august-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/water-valleys-47th-watermelon-carnival-august-5-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Valley\u2019s 47th Watermelon Carnival August 5-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since 1980, <strong>Water Valley<\/strong>\u2019s annual <strong>Watermelon Carnival<\/strong> in <strong>City Park<\/strong> has been bringing people together for a fun-filled weekend of music, crafts, dancing, fireworks, craft and car exhibits, good food, and family and class reunions.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A major event in the southeast, the 2-day carnival is a \u201cDon\u2019t Miss It, or You\u2019ll Regret It\u201d combination of continuous music, arts &amp; craft booths, car show, and FREE trolley rides to down-town shops and galleries.\u00a0 Water Valley\u2019s own <strong>Casey Jones<\/strong> <strong>Railroad Museum<\/strong> is located in the heart of down-town Water Valley, at the former <strong>ICRR Depot<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A street dance near City Park <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2044552762\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> night is followed by a spectacular fireworks display, and a 3K race\/walk and a mouth-watering Train Track Pork Attack BBQ Contest are held <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2044552763\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 New to the line-up this year will be a Pet Parade and Costume Contest.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Watermelon Queen and her court will be presented in the City Park gazebo, and prizes will be awarded for the Biggest Watermelon.\u00a0 Kids of ALL ages will enjoy competing in the Watermelon Games:\u00a0 Seed-Spitting, Melon Eating, and Throwing real melons are always fun events\u2026..plus, FREE Ice-Cold watermelon is served, a welcome activity that\u2019s guaranteed to \u201cBeat the Heat!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Inflatables, mechanical bull-riding, rock wall climbing, bunjee jumping, train rides for the children, and more are available for the younger crowd: there literally IS \u201csomething for everyone\u201d at the carnival!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1980, Water Valley\u2019s annual Watermelon Carnival in City Park has been bringing people together for a fun-filled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":35097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,1],"tags":[9053,9050,1698,2946,1697,9052,9055,9047,940,783,9048,9054,5,642,5206,4,3830,3,753,9049,9051,7082,9045,9046],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","category-uncategorized","tag-47th","tag-9050","tag-1698","tag-2946","tag-august","tag-beat-the-heat","tag-casey-jones-railroad-museum","tag-city-park","tag-festival","tag-free","tag-gazebo","tag-iccr-depot","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-oxford","tag-summer","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-tlv-new","tag-trolly-rides","tag-water-valley","tag-watermelon-festival","tag-watermelon-queen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-04-watermelons.jpg?fit=600%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}