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If the above picture isn’t enough to get you interested in the Monticello Bagel Festival happening on Friday, August 16 through Saturday, August 17, we don’t know what will. Feel free to abandon your low carb/Paleo diet for the weekend and indulge in some bready goodness, just this once.

During the festival on Saturday, Broadway in the village of Monticello in Sullivan County will be closed off so visitors can enjoy an all-day street fair complete with vendors, lots of food, rides, games, and live music, all starting at 9am (the perfect hour to break your fast with bagels). At noon, the Bagel Festival Parade begins on Broadway and continues until 1pm, when attendees can help create the world’s longest bagel chain. Participants in the chain can pay $5 and get their names in the Guinness Book of World Records. If you still have some room left in your belly, you can help judge the Best Bagels Contest at 2pm, free of charge. Once you’ve carbo-loaded, you can expend those calories during the Bagel Triathalon where you’ll roll, stack, and toss bagels instead of eating them. Meanwhile, the bird population in Monticello rejoices.

Friday night before the street fair there will be a ticket-only VIP kick-off event with drinks (the schedule touts a “bagel-tini” as the signature drink of the evening, which sounds a little scary to us; perhaps our love of bagels stops just short of beverage form), live music, comedians, and, of course, bagel-centric hors d’eouvres.

Interested in all the bagel goings-on during the festival? Visit the official bagel festival website for a full schedule. There was also a full article in the Times Herald Record just a couple of days ago. Don’t forget to bring your appetite.

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Kandy is a writer and musician/music teacher living in Saugerties, NY.

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