Each year during the second weekend of July, Wayne holds its annual Chicken Show. It's a tradition that's been going on for more than twenty years now and is one of Wayne's very, very few claims to fame. It's a time for Nebraska-style cornball fun.

It starts on Friday with "Henoween," where main street is blocked off for kids' entertainment and crafts. The next morning at ten is the Chicken Show Parade, with features shriners, a bunch of tractors, and the Chickendale dancers. Afterwards is the Chicken Show, where folks sell overpriced crap in makeshift booths and see how far chickens fly if you shove them through a mailbox. They also have the Cluck-Off, and a guy named Del Hampton (who's won five years in a row now) lays an egg, impresses everyone, and winds up on the Tonight Show.

Anyway, I was bored and had nothing better to do, so I wandered down and took a bunch of rather lame pictures.

Start the show!