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No pets at Hog
Day, please
It's not trash 'til
you throw it out! Hog Day Recycles!
Hillsborough
Hog Day 2010
Hog Day has also become a community event, looked
forward to and attended by local residents as well as out of town
visitors. While Hog Day is a good event, it, like anything else,
can be improved upon. But we need YOUR help to make Hog Day a better
event. Please click on the link below and take a few minutes to
complete this short survey.
https://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/survey/start?sid=984&cid=615136
Please feel free to pass this link on to others.
The more feedback we get, the more information we'll have to work
with. We also welcome you to join us in planning or volunteering
for Hog Day
Hillsborough
Hog Day 2010
Friday, June 18, 6 pm to 10 pm
Saturday, June 19, 9 am to 6 pm
Downtown Hillsborough, North Carolina
What is Hillsborough Hog Day?
A better question would be "What isn't Hillsborough Hog Day?"
Now celebrating its 28th Anniversary, Hillsborough Hog Day
offers family fun, good food, live music, crafters, merchandise
vendors, games and rides, and the area's largest classic auto
show.
The festival starts on Friday night, when 36 pig cooking
teams from all over the state roll into town. For the next
12 hours, hams and pork shoulders roast on the cookers and
tall tales are exchanged. The gates will open at 6:00 pm for
a concert beginning at 7:00 pm featuring local performers
Vintage
Blue and The
Wells Family Band from Clayton!!
When day breaks on Saturday, Hog Day is already bustling with
activity. While vendors, who sell everything from video games
to handpainted stained glass, set up in the General Merchandise,
Food, and Craft areas, you hear a persistent "thunk, thunk,
thunk" and you know the pig is ready. The cooking teams chop
all their cooked pig and sauce a portion for the Barbecue
Tasting Judges. Led by Chief Judge David Hunt, the judges
will compare notes and make their final decisions as to the
top 5 barbecue cooking teams. Judges for 2009 include
Ed Mitchell, the Pitmaster (Executive
Chef at The Pit Restaurant
in Raleigh) , Walter Royal,
Executive Chef at The Angus
Barn in Raleigh and Mel
Melton of Papa
Mojo's Road House (and Mel
Melton and the Wicked Mojos). They are to be saluted for
tasting 31 different barbecues at 8:30 am!
The rest is shuttled to the main tent, where it's made into
sandwiches and pounds of the freshest barbecue in the state.
Cash prizes and trophies are awarded for best barbecue (click
here for an Application).
The Triangle
Thunder Cruisers will present the area's largest car show,
with a cruise-in featuring hot-rods, street rods, classics
and vintage automobiles from all over the area. Formed in
July, 2007, the Triangle
Thunder Cruisers were initially a group of men, small
business owners, professionals and the working force mixed
in age and race who got together and formed the Triangle Thunder
Cruisers with the intent of being a positive impact to the
Triangle cities' youth and civic community. Their message
is a simple one and they offer young men the opportunity to
tag along with them rather than roam the street in gangs.
They encourage their members to each sponsor a youth headed
in the wrong direction and bring him along to cruises, car
shows and civic duties.
On the stage, the band is warming up for a day full of fine
music. In 2007, we welcomed The Doc Branch
Band, The Craig Woolard Band, Mighty Lester, Terry Anderson
& the OAK Team, and American Idol Contestant Heather Cox!
Past performers have included The Derek Trucks Band,
The Two Dollar Pistols, Coastline Band, Stillhouse, Tres Chicas,
Chatham County Line, Mike Cross General Johnson and the Chairman
of the Board, and many other locally and nationally famous
performers. Come early to get a good seat for the performers!
And the best part: admission to this festival is $5 per person,
kids 12 and under free. What an entertainment bargain!
Orange County's largest festival, with attendance of up to
35,000 people, is always held on the 3rd Saturday of June,
so mark your calendars.
Hillsborough Hog Day is presented by
the Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce.
For more information about the Chamber, click here, or call the Chamber at 919-732-8156
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2009 Logo
by Josh McKelvey
Phoenix Graphics, Hillsborough, NC |
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In 2009, Winner Trophies sponsored
By:
Hillsborough Moose Family Center,
Lodge # 1893
2009 Cookoff Winners
1st Place
Jeff Whitney and Frank Volger, Clemmons, NC
2nd Place
Matt Fox and Tommy Stann, Hillsborough, NC
3rd Place
Mark Johnson and Bill Johnson, Durham, NC
4th Place
David Burch and Chip Lewis, Rougemont, NC
5th Place
John Goodwyn and Randy Smith, Durham, NC

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