Karla Kinstler\u00a0\u00a0of Houston, MN writes:<\/p>\n
I coordinate the International Festival of Owls<\/a>, held annually the first weekend in March in the tiny little town of Houston, MN (population 1,020).\u00a0 It began simply as a hatch-day party for Alice the Great Horned Owl, the Houston Nature Center’s only live animal, and grew into an event that last year brought in people from England, Jamaica, and Alaska.\u00a0 It is the only full-weekend, all-owl event in North America. Karla Kinstler\u00a0\u00a0of Houston, MN writes: I coordinate the International Festival of Owls, held annually the first weekend in March in the tiny little town of Houston, MN (population 1,020).\u00a0 It began simply as a hatch-day party for Alice the Great Horned Owl, the Houston Nature Center’s only live animal, and grew into an event that\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[601,605,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-25183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-news-events","9":"tag-promotions","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41043,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions\/41043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe event is entirely focused on owls, including live owls, owl prowls to call in wild owls at night, top-name “owlologists” as speakers, owl-themed food, owl photography sessions, owl crafts, the presentation of the World Owl Hall of Fame Awards (derived from a Publicity Hound suggestion!) and more owl things than you can shake a stick at.
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\nWhile we’re developing an international following, our attendance has yet to climb over the 500 mark.\u00a0 With great events for families, biologists, and photographers, I truly believe our attendance should be at least 1,000, given our very rural location.
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\nOwls are such a fun subject to work with, I’m betting there are some hounds out there with excellent publicity ideas.
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