Hope Watermelon Festival

Watermelon Festival parade at Hope (Hempstead County); circa 1927.

Top: line of cars with decorations on a city street Bottom: Man in white driving a tractor pulling a parade float

Courtesy of the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives

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