Tebbetts Picnic (aka Mutton Fest)

Start: Sunday, September 22, 2024 10:00AM
End: Sunday, September 22, 2024 2:00PM

The three-day festival has many activities for attendees to enjoy this year, including live entertainment, games and shopping. Attendees can enjoy a quilt raffle, gun raffle and silent auction. Local vendors and a rummage sale will be available. The festivities will begin at 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Tebbetts Community Center, 5544 State Highway 94 with a classic and muscle car show. Food stands will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. There will be live entertainment from 5-6 p.m. Sept. 20, starting with country singer Blake Hagner. Karaoke will also be available. Registration for the "Travel the Gravel" 5k run will begin at 7 a.m. Sept. 21. The 5k will begin at 8 a.m. Sept 21. Homemade biscuits and gravy will be served at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 21. Mokane AmVets will hold a flag ceremony at noon Sept. 21. A fruit pie contest will begin at 3 p.m. Sept. 21. Participants must register in the fruit pie contest by 2:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Children can register for the pedal tractor pull at 3 p.m. Sept. 21. The pedal tractor pull will be 3:30-5 p.m. Sept. 21. Antique tractors and hit-miss engines will be available to spectators from 3:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Attendees can enjoy Flat Footin' Follies Clogging, a dance group out of Fulton, from 5-6 p.m. Sept. 21. A pie auction will follow from 6-7 p.m. Sept. 21. Blake Hagner will return for live entertainment along with karaoke from 7-10 p.m. Sept. 21. The silent auction will close 8 p.m. Sept. 21. On the last day of the picnic, an "open-air church" will be from 10-11 a.m. Sept. 22, followed by Robert & John Fiddle Music playing from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 22. The picnic will officially close at 2 p.m. Sept. 22. Attendees can choose from a wide range of items on the menu, including mutton, fish, pork steak, tenderloin, hamburgers, cheeseburgers and hotdogs. Sides will include homemade potato chips, baked beans and cole slaw. Desserts offered will include pies, brownies, funnel cake and homemade vanilla ice cream with optional toppings. Anyone with questions about the picnic can send email to tebbettscommunityclub@gmail.com or call Sam Richards at 573-680-7213.