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Benson in Johnston County is an example of a small agricultural community that once depended on the mule for farming and mule-trading business for economic sustenance. Those days have long since passed, but each September for the past fifty-eight years, Benson has celebrated its mule history with a festival called Mule Days. The festival attracts between 50,000 to 70,000 people from all over the country.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2007,
p54-67, il, bibl
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9815
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During the last weekend of September, Mule Days is held in Benson. Conceived in 1949 by Garland McLamb, Mule Days is a four-day long festival designed for people to buy, sell, and pay homage to the mules. The festival is now in its twenty-sixth year and attracted over 50,000 people in 1974. Although North Carolina's mule population dwindled in the past, it has grown steadily in the last twenty years, spurred in part by Mule Days.
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