09/06/2025
Maine has its lobster fests. In Wisconsin, the town of Ellsworth hosts the Cheese Curd Festival, and every September New Orleans celebrates Beignet Fest as visitors brush powdered sugar from their clothes and enjoy the pastries with chicory root coffee. A no-brainer theme for a fair in Buffalo, N.Y., is the National Buffalo Wing Festival held each Labor Day weekend.
McClure, a Central Pennsylvania borough north of Harrisburg and a little over two hours from Frederick, is not to be outdone. With a population of fewer than 1,000 residents, McClure hosts the state’s oldest festival with a stirring (sorry) tribute to bean soup, making and serving countless bowls of it every September since 1891.
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