🐂 Cowtown Rodeo and Market While We Discuss the 📚Book: Aloha Rodeo

Join Audrey at the world famous Cowtown Rodeo (and Farmers Market) where we'll discuss Aloha Rodeo - a triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo championships! Join us at 1:45pm to stroll the market or between 4pm-5:30pm to booktailgate and discuss the book before we head into the rodeo. PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BELOW FOR DETAILS - YOU MUST BUY YOUR OWN TICKET!
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🎟️ TICKETS to RODEO: Adults $31
Get your tickets on your own (they will sell out!) here: https://www.rodeoticket.com/rodeos/cowtown-rodeo/2025/tickets
All tickets are general admission.

They Highly Recommend printing your tickets or saving a screenshot. Those that arrive without their tickets available may have issues retrieving because of wifi / download issues.

🚗 1:45pm: ARRIVAL
I will try to park in area #13 (see map in photos). I will put up the NOVEL TOURIST flag to help find us.

👨‍🌾2-4pm [COWTOWN FARMER’s MARKET](https://www.cowtownfarmersmarket.com/vendors/?vc=453)
At 2pm we’ll walk over to the farmers/flea market. Over 400 vendors! It is considered by many to be the best flea market in South Jersey.

4ish-6pm TAILGATE 📚BOOK DISCUSSION
🍔Food & 🍺Drinks: Bring your own drinks and food (or buy at farmers market!) to tailgate and discuss the book outside before the rodeo. You can take food:drinks inside, too. Bring your own chair!

🐂 COWTOWN RODEO: 5:30pm
We’ll get in line for the rodeo around 5:30pm - it’s General Admission so we need to get in line early to get good seats. If we are not in line together, we probably won’t be able to sit together so make sure you are at my car no later than 5:30pm (if you’re not planning on joining us at the flea market)

Rules:

1. 12x12 or smaller coolers - no glass containers/bottles
2. 💵Cash only inside
3. 📷No picture or video within the Rodeo!
4. Read all the rules on their website:
https://www.rodeoticket.com/cowtown-rodeo/rodeo-information

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📚DISCUSS BOOK: Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith
Genre: Literary Nonfiction
This was our runner-up pick for August's Wild West Theme!

In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. They had travelled 3,000 miles from Hawaii, where their ancestors had herded cattle for generations, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the Hawaiians left the heartland as champions - and American legends. Read more...

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