Join us for the Black-Eyed Pea Jamboree featuring the Uncle Fletcher Hamburger Cookoff on the 3rd week of September.
This family-friendly festival celebrates our reigning title as the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World! This two-day festival has been expanded to THREE days and will take place on Thursday, September 19th, in the Trinity Valley Community College Auditorium, and Friday and Saturday, September 20-21st, on the Henderson County square in downtown Athens. The festival will have something for everyone of all ages to include:
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Live entertainment, a 5K race and family fun run, talent show, arts/craft vendors, Kids Zone, an antique tractor show, food vendors, turtle races, watermelon seed spitting competition, black-eyed pea cookoff, hamburger cookoff, hamburger eating contest, mooing competition, horchata cookoff, historical pop-up museum, historical video and so much more!