46th Annual Hope Watermelon Festival Benefitting From Good Weather

By photo by Paul Oller, 08/12/22 10:07 PM

Some of the best Watermelon Festival weather in several years has been seen this week at the 46th annual Hope Watermelon Festival.  Festivities began earlier this week with the parade and moved into the beauty pageant Tuesday night at the Paul Klipsch Auditorium.  The festivities officially opened Thursday at noon with a ribbon-cutting on the Coliseum stage.  Other highlights Thursday included the Kiwanis chicken dinner.  There’s plenty of good food at the festival from such vendors as the Hope Band Boosters.  The festival wraps up Saturday night with the Uncle Kracker concert.