You might be a redneck if your gun rack is stuck to your truck with duct tape, you win a blue ribbon for Biggest Beer Belly and pull out your dentures to get a discount at the door at the second annual Redneck Festival.
![]() Last year, a festival goer was game to remove her teeth and participate in a catfish-bobbing contest during the Redneck Festival in the Woodland Zoo in Fayette County. |
"It's self-explanatory," said Jill Herring of the Woodland Zoo. "They're bobbing for live catfish like apples. Actually, we put apples in there, too."
Prizes include fly swatters, plungers, toilet brushes and tubes of denture adhesive wrapped in ribbons.
Live music will be provided during a Battle of the Bands that spotlights local rock and country groups Awe Struck, Impact, Happy Ending, Burning Earth, Meniscus and Chastity. Herring said food items will include Buffalo Balls Sandwiches (beef), Buzzard Wings (chicken) and Deer Sticks (venison).
"We're not making fun of anyone," she says. "We're celebrating the fact that we are rednecks. We're hard working and like to have fun, and this is our way of letting loose now and then."
Admission to the Redneck Festival is $5 with teeth, $4 without. Festival tickets come with a discount on admission to the Woodland Zoo, which includes more than 150 domestic and foreign animals on a 35-acre site, petting zoo section and free parking.
The Woodland Zoo is at 3400 National Pike, about 8 miles from Uniontown on Route 40 East. Information: 724-329-1776.