There is a new festival coming up that I wanted to put on your radar. I recently learned of the inaugural Banjos & Bigfoot Festival on Saturday, June 8, at Salt Folk State Park in Lore City, Ohio. This sasquatch-themed event -- or as we call it, the Ohio Grassman -- will feature music, vendors and food trucks from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Stone House and the surrounding area. I reached out to the event organizer, Salt Fork Naturalist John Hickenbottom with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and he said this year's event will serve as a "metric to gauge the success of this event in the future." While Hickenbottom said the Banjos & Bigfoot Festival will be small, he added that the event will "have a local bluegrass group and a couple musicians who will be gathering around picking, there is a local vendor and there will be food trucks." I specifically asked if they would have festival T-shirts based on that wonderful graphic above, b
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