Lizard Races At The National Corn Festival

 “You haven’t lived ’til you’ve seen little girls in tiaras & sashes racing their anole lizards & screeeaming.” A tweet like that demands attention, so Anole Annals looked into it. Turns out that as part of the Louisiana Corn Festival, held every year in Bunkie, Louisiana, there is a lizard race featuring anoles. Anole Annals learned of this yearly event in early June and sure enough, a quick look at thetowntalk.com confirmed that the event was on again this year: “Be sure to be on hand for the lizard races at 2:30 (bring your own lizard); and stick around for live music and street dancing.”

So, Anole Annals settled back and waited for the news reports and Youtube postings. The appointed day came and went. And…nothing. No googleable photos. No newspaper accounts. Not a single video. Surely there must be a record of this wonderful event somewhere. We’ll keep looking.

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2 Comments

  1. Next year AA should consider sending a representative to report on this spectacle. Furthermore, they don’t qualify what species of lizard one can bring. Is there a purse to be won?

  2. Oh man! What an event to miss!!!!!

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