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UPDATED 07/13/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/13/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

The wacky world of warm-weather America

Vacationing in the U.S.? There's more to enjoy between now and Indian summer than beaches and baseball. There is competing, eating and just plain commemorating—in some exuberantly different ways. Following is a compendium of events from coast to coast that are. as the Guide Michelin might say, worth a detour

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