My Festival is Cancelled.

Yes - this is my home state. We love our silly little festivals and small town summer gatherings. Any excuse to extoll the virtues of small town Minnesota. We're proud of our small town ways. We're proud of our small town histories...well...maybe not always:

Citizens group denounces town's 'Whorehouse Days'
GILBERT, Minn. (AP) — Promoting this town's proud history is one thing. Naming the town's festival Gilbert Whorehouse Days is another thing entirely.
A group of angry citizens showed up at a City Council meeting Tuesday to protest the event. The festival's name refers to a time when Gilbert was known for its bars, gambling and "working girls" during Prohibition.

"The damage has been done," resident Fran Marolt said. "This is not a family-oriented activity."

The event doesn't include any of the activities that gave the festival its name, but City Council members still don't approve.

"It would give us a black eye," City Council member Dan Berry said.

Organizers say the festival — and its name — are meant to bring back a part of history. The festival is planned for two days in July and includes a car show, antique fair and bank robbery reenactment.

"We feel it's got some power to it," said organizer Lynn Sausman, who's lived in Gilbert for 35 years. "Gilbert has been widely documented to be the biggest red light district on the Iron Range."

It's a joke people - if you can't find the humor in your history (personal, social, or national) you'll probably cry. It sounded like a good time. Too bad everyone was too afraid.

Seriously - we can celebrate eelpout but not working girls? I so would have been all over this too.