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Harvest Days is a celebration of Battle Ground, Washington, supported by the Battle Ground Chamber of Commerce. The festival is the largest event in Battle Ground that continues today and consists of main events including a parade and a vendor fair providing food, beverage, arts, crafts, and music.

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Hallmark Cards, Inc. was founded on January 10, 1910, by the then 18-year-old Joyce Clyde Hall. It is a private, family-owned American company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. This business is the leader of the greeting card industry, though its brand is ever evolving. It aims to help nurture creativity and connections between people, friends, and family through its diverse portfolio of businesses like Hallmark, Crayola, Hallmark Media, and Crown Center.

In addition to greeting cards, Hallmark also manufactures gift wrap, stationery, ornaments, gifts, and other related products like buttons. This particular button is a 1978 Hallmark Collectible released for the spring season. Tulip plants are generally known to bloom during this season, but can bloom before or after as well, depending on the group and cultivar.

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Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday". It is a celebration that commemorates the feast before the fasting of Lent and it takes place on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is not observed as a national holiday in the United States, but it is celebrated in traditionally French cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans had their first Mardi Gras parade in 1837 and continue the tradition each year with participants in colorful costumes and masks.

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Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish winter celebration. Each night, celebrants light a candle a special nine-branch candelabrum called a menorah: one candle is lit for each night of Hanukkah. The center, ninth candle, is called the shamash (or, helper) which is used to light the other candles. 

The holiday, which falls around the same time as Christmas and Kwanzaa, involves gift-giving and has many traditional foods, games, and activities.

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Miller Brewing Company was founded by German immigrant Frederick Miller in 1855. and celebrated its 125th birthday in 1980. Miller purchased a suburban brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854 and began brewing and bottling the beer using new and improved technology. The brewery produced some of Milwaukee’s bestselling beers during the years following the Prohibition and World War II. In 1970, the Miller Brewing Company was purchased by the Philip Morris Company Inc. and the Miller family ownership came to an end. It 2002 it was sold again to South African Breweries and became SABMiller. In 2008, SABMiller merged with the Molson Coors Brewing Company from Canada and became MillerCoors.

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Theodore Seuss Geisel is a celebrated American poet, illustrator, and children’s books author better known under his pseudonym Dr. Seuss. Born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the year 2004 would have marked his 100^th birthday. In honor of Dr. Seuss’ one hundredth birthday, U.S Postal Service issued a stamp featuring Geisel. The American publishing company Random House which worked with Geisel also hosted one hundred days of events in forty U.S. cities. Numerous U.S. libraries also celebrated with theatrical performances and special Dr. Seuss birthday parties to celebrate the author.

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Gunther Gebel-Williams was a famous circus performer and animal trainer, known for his work with big cats (primarily tigers) and elephants. After 11,697 performances with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth, Gebel-Williams went on a widely publicized Farewell Tour in 1989-1990, after deciding to retire from circus performing due to health issues.

Gunther Gebel-Williams has been called, “The most celebrated circus performer of his generation”. He first began working in circuses at the age of 13, when his mother took a job as a seamstress at a German circus called Circus Williams, after World War II. Gebel-Williams worked for Circus Williams for the next two decades. In 1968, Gebel-Williams agreed to bring his large animal act to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the United States, where he became a true show business super-star. Gunther Gebel-Williams was well-known during his circus career for his talent and charisma in the ring. He appeared on numerous television shows and specials. After retiring from performing, Gebel-Williams continued to work for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey as Vice President of Animal Care. He died from a brain tumor in 2001.

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The Grover King Post 1115 VFW annual Labor Day Show is known as the location “where collectors collect” as it is a gunshow and also a fleamarket where one can buy antiques, coins, comics, clothes, toys, jewelry, collectables, crafts, and more. There are also food vendors and live music. Grover King Post 1115 is located in Hillsville, Virginia, and the Labor Day Show started in 1967 to raise funds after the first Post Home was destroyed in an accident. The festival celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017. This event is all weekend from Friday through Monday, with some setting up shop inside the FVW and others in one of the parking lots. The whole town of Hillsville also participates with yard sales outside of the space throughout town. This is a large event and drew over 500,000 visitors on Labor Day weekend 2019.

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Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in the U.S. every year on February 2nd where if a groundhog comes out and sees his shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter. It is also the title of a film from the 1990s starring Bill Murray which was mostly filmed in Woodstock, Illinois. Since the release of the movie, the town of Woodstock created a "Groundhog Days" committee to organize events each year to get tourists to return for Groundhog Day. These events have included woodcarving, an art contest, a dinner and dance, and free showings of the film, Groundhog Day.