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'Wall Street Journal' Features Avon Duct Tape Festival
National newspaper features Delorean duct tape float, annual Avon festival
The Wall Street Journal featured a local man and his Duct Tape Festival parade float last week.
The article, "Ohio Community Sticks Together, Even in Competition" gives a nod to the city's unique summer tradition honoring the fix-anything-staple:
The article, "Ohio Community Sticks Together, Even in Competition" gives a nod to the city's unique summer tradition honoring the fix-anything-staple:
It was nearly midnight on a recent Friday when Keith Urig finally called it quits, though he and his friends weren't quite finished with their life-size model of the time-traveling DeLorean from "Back to the Future."
The pulley system he had rigged up to lift the famous vertically opening gullwing doors was still jerky, and the fog machine was only pushing vapors out of one exhaust port.
Read the article at WSJ.com, and click here to see Avon-Avon Lake Patch's coverage.
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