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Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/31/2024
All Day
Location
Downtown Arthur
Categories
The 2024 Amish Country Cheese Festival will be held August 31 – September 2, 2024.
Amish Country Cheese Festival
Arthur Illinois
Central Illinois’ Best Labor Day Celebration is now THREE BIG DAYS
SATURDAY
6 -11 am: Firemen’s breakfast @ Firehouse
9 am: Festival / Vendors / Artie’s Party Zone opens
10 am – 4 pm: Rides: Buggy @ Welcome Center
10 am – 3 pm: Art Fair @ The Arthur United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall Pony @ Arties Party Zone
9:51 am: Ceremonial First Cheese Giveaway @ Intersection of Vine & Illinois
12:30 pm: 24th Annual International Cheese Curling Championships @ Illinois & Vine Street
2:30 pm: 24th Annual Cheese Eating Nationals @ Cheese Tent
4:00 pm: Free Cheese Giveaway
7 pm: Festival/vendors close
SUNDAY
10 am: Community worship service hosted by Arthur Ministerial Association @ Gazebo Parking Lot
• Festival / Vendors / Artie’s Party Zone open
10:30 am: Free Cheese Giveaway
12:30 pm: Cheese Carving Registration @ Cheese Tent • Kiddie Tractor Pull registration @ Cheesy Hollow
1:00 – 4 pm: Vine Street Christian Church Ice Cream Social, Heavenly Dips of Homemade Ice Cream @ South Vine St.
1:00 pm: Cheese Carving Contest @ Cheese Tent – Sponsored by The County Chronicle
1:30 pm: Kiddie Tractor Pull on E. Illinois St.
2 pm: FREE CHEESE @ Cheese Tent
MONDAY
6 -10 am: Arthur Lions Club breakfast @ Community Center
6:00 am: Rat Race Registration for all races @ Welcome Center
7:30 am: Rat Race 5K & 10K Runs begin
9 am: Festival/vendors open
9:30 am: Free Cheese Giveaway
9:30 am: Rat Race Awards Ceremony
10 am – 4 pm: Rides: Buggy @ Welcome Center, Pony @ Arties Party Zone
11:30 am: 11th annual Bob Doan Memorial Cheese Curd Spitting Contest
12:30 pm: FREE 60-ft. sub sandwich giveaway @ Cheese Tent – Sponsored by Arthur Subway Restaurant
1 pm: FREE CHEESE @ Cheese Tent
3 pm: Festival closes
Schedule times change a bit all the time. Come early and spend the day. Last minute information at the Arthur Welcome center at the North end of the Festival and also at the Cheese Tent at Illinois and Vine St in the center of the festival.
For any updates to the detailed daily schedule checkout their website.
