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2018 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Mocksville, NC Twas the Night Before Bed Race is a fun, wacky, and creative family-friendly event held on the third Friday in November each year in historic downtown Mocksville. Now in its sixth year, participating teams create beds according to specifications provided in the entry packet. Each team develops its own theme for the bed, such as running chickens, the Minions, or Hawaiian surfers. The racers compete in he

2018 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Lenoir, NC Lenoir’s Carolina Tattoo and Arts Gathering is special event that is designed to attract the creative class in an authentic and overwhelmingly creative way. The furniture industry initially brought the creative class to Lenoir, and now it is done through data centers such as Google. Lenoir’s new brand, “TOGETHER WE CREATE,” and the Tattoo and Arts Gathering illustrate Lenoir’s “WE CREATE” spirit. The Gathering

2017 Small Town Main Street Awards – Promotion Warrenton and Edenton, NC The stamped passport qualifies tourists to register online for prizes and drawings. Discover History Worth Repeating was conceived as a collaboration project between the towns of Edenton, Halifax and Warrenton to promote tourism in some of North Carolina’s most historic communities. The promotion highlights seminal moments in state and national history such as the Halifax Resolves that predates the Dec