When is mule day in columbia tn 2018

Mule Day is an annual celebration of all things related to mules and is held in Columbia, Tennessee, the Mule Capital of the world. In addition to mules, traditional Appalachian food, music, dancing, and crafts are featured.

Mule Day has been a popular Columbia tradition for over years , since the s. Over time, Mule Day evolved from a single day event into a multi-day festival, attracting thousands of attendees, lasting almost a week. The heavy involvement of Maury County in the mule industry has caused the event to grow over time into one of the largest livestock markets in the world.

All campers are required to have weekend passes whenever they arrive. Downtown Columbia. Trip Itineraries. History Buff. Girls' Weekend. Sweets and Treats. Fall Travel. Spring Hill.

Mount Pleasant. Around the Region. Neighboring Spring Hill. Quaint Mount Pleasant. Mule Day. Submit an Event. First Fridays. But this weekend, the city's streets remained almost entirely empty. So was Maury County Park, the heart of the weeklong festival in Columbia, as part of nation-wide effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus that has led to more than 3, people to be diagnosed with the virus and more than 35 deaths. Koy R.

Flowers of Clarkrange would have rode in this year's parade as the event's second recipient of the Mule Man award. Flowers is one of the event's most recognizable characters. Each year, Flowers, pulled by mules Ginger and Daisy, is joined by members of the Mule Day court as he leads a caravan of mule drawn wagons into the Maury County Park.

The wagon train's arrival, a tradition held on the Wednesday before the parade, serves as the symbolic start to the celebration's events at Maury County Park where pulls, races and traditional shows highlight the strength and power of the celebrated animal in the following days. The moment reflects a bygone era when farmers would return to Columbia's courthouse square to sell the mules they spent a year breaking in.

Once purchased, the trained mules would be sold and shipped across the county to be used in everything from mining operations to the field of battle.

Many skinners would then use funds from the sale to purchase another untrained mule and repeat the cycle.