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The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts broke ground on the site of their new building for the museum in April of 1991. This building included an auditorium, a library, studios, classrooms, archive storage, and galleries and it was designed by Robert A.M. Stern, an architect from New York. Festivities were held to celebrate the building's construction.

Norman Rockwell was an American artist and author who was most famous for his paintings of American culture and his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post magazine and Boys' Life magazine. The museum in his name holds the largest collection of his art in the world.

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The Washougal “Pow-Wow” was an annual rodeo held in Washougal, Washington featuring 5 performers who were paid $200 for each even they participated in. The event was hosted by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which was established in 1936 and continues to host rodeos nationwide. The city of Washougal continues to host rodeos each July including Miss Vancouver Rodeo Queen and the Fourth of July Rodeo.

“Pow-Wow” is a term that has historically been appropriated by popular culture as a colloquial term for any gathering or event, in this case a large-scale rodeo, but the term and events associated with it hold special meaning to the First Nations community and use should be limited to describing tribal organized events.

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The March of Dimes Foundation has a walkathon event every year with over 1000 communities participating across the United States. The first walkathon took place in 1970 and was the first charitable walking event to take place in the country. March of Dimes is a non-profit organization founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. It was first known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which worked to combat polio. The organization grew, after funding the polio vaccine, to include work on preventing birth defects and infant mortality as well as funding research to prevent premature birth. 

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The 1995 African Film Festival at Columbia College was directed by Alice Stephens and premiered in April of that year. The film festival was titled "Visions of Africa" and featured 16 films. One of the films entitled “Black Girl” is a French-speaking film that follows a young nanny in a French household as she experiences harsh treatment through service. The film festival was a revolutionary collection that introduced African films to the United States population; only curated picks from the genre had been available to the public prior to the festival and many of the films shown had never been available on video or home entertainment.

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Valleyfair Family Amusement Park opened in 1976 in Shakopee, Minnesota. In 1978, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, acquired Valleyfair, which allowed for accelerated park expansion. Currently, it is the largest amusement park in the upper Midwest with over 75 rides on 90 acres, including a Soak City Water Park and Planet Snoopy. Valleyfair also hosts corporate events like Family Fun Days for local companies. Events like these let employees bring their families to the park as guests of their employer. Sperry-UNIVAC was a computer division created when Remington Rand merged with the Sperry Corporation in 1955. For three decades, computer-related companies and their spinoffs boosted the Minnesota economy. Sperry dropped the UNIVAC name in 1984.

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Since 2004, Uncle Jon’s Music has been an award winning, family owned and operated, musical instrument store and service center in Westmont, Illinois. They host an annual customer appreciation party each year with live music, kids activities, raffles, and free hot dogs.

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The 20^th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots were celebrated with a rally in Central Park in 1989 where notable gay activists like Harvey Fierstein​, Harry Hay, and poet Allen Ginsberg spoke. The Stonewall Riots mark the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. The three day riots began on June 28, 1969 after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York.

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The annual Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Show is an antique agricultural equipment show organized by the Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Association in Maryland. The annual show is a family-oriented event that is also a major fundraising event for the organization. Founded in 1973, the association aims to preserve Maryland's Eastern Shore rural heritage and to educate future generations. The nonprofit all volunteer organization collects and restores old equipment to display and demonstrate during shows and events. Its collections include a variety of historic engines, farm machinery and tools.

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Westfield is a town in Western Massachusetts with a population of about 41,000. It was originally settled by the Pocomtuc tribe, and there is little known about them except that they led similar lifestyles to neighboring New England tribes. In 1640, they were uprooted by European settlers from the Connecticut Colony. The region was slowly acquired by the new tenants, who purchased the land off of Native Americans. Westfield, as the town was later called, was officially incorporated in 1660 and represented the westernmost settlement in Massachusetts Colony until 1725.

For more than a century after its founding, Westfield served as an agricultural hub in the Colony due to its rich alluvial lands. The town was later a manufacturing center for bricks, cigars, and whips—the last of which gave Westfield the nickname of “Whip City.” By the late eighteenth century, Westfield was firmly an industrial town and churned out bicycles, paper and woods products, and textile machinery. Though Westfield is no longer an industrial mecca, it continues to support large businesses by serving as an ideal place for warehouse storage.