HEBRON — Harold Brooks is changing his beer tent at the Redneck “Blank” Pig Roast and Music Fest to a veterans tent for a barbecue and fundraiser. The founder and organizer of the four-day festival has also replaced his traditional Confederate battle flag with a red, white and blue flag for the eighth annual event […]
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Last Redneck Blank in Hebron 'gets all kinds'
HEBRON — The seventh Redneck Blank Pig Roast and Music Festival was held for the last time at its Hebron location this weekend — and there was plenty of beer, mud and fun on Saturday. Throughout the 210-acre farm owned by event creator Harold Brooks were hundreds of campers and tents with thousands of people […]
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Final redneck fest this weekend in Hebron
HEBRON — The seventh and final Redneck Blank, Pig Roast and Music Festival will take place this weekend — and it’s sure to be a hootin’ good time. The event is to be held on a 210-acre farm at 12 Harold Lane in Hebron, beginning Thursday, Aug. 10. Owner and event organizer Harold Brooks said in an […]
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Redneck Blank ‘just a good party’
HEBRON — They went for the music. They went for the games. They went for the fun of driving golf carts through the mud. They went, in large numbers, for the beer. “Good friends, good food and good alcohol,” said Karen St. Hilaire, of Lewiston. “Good times.” The Redneck Blank, Pig Roast and Music Festival […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Redneck ‘Blank’ back in action for a fifth year
HEBRON — When he was 12 years old, Harold Brooks stole a jar of sodium, hid it in a hay loft, and one day while his parents were out, dropped a piece into water. It exploded into his face. Blinded, he lay in the hospital, fragrant with his own singed hair, and listened to the doctor […]
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‘Redneck Blank’ hops foreclosure
HEBRON — Not even foreclosure can stop the rednecks. Days after half of his land was taken in foreclosure, Harold Brooks — organizer, construction worker and a man who dreamt up the largest gathering of rednecks in Maine — said he intends to pay his property tax bill to keep the Redneck Blank alive. Formerly […]
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Mud and merriment: Rednecks rule in Hebron
Oland Easler’s enormous, mud-dripping 1947 truck sat poised at the entrance of the pits only long enough to ensure every eye was glued to it. Then it tore through the gully, screaming through the pits in a single, breathless moment. The mud-covered onlookers at the Redneck Blank roared their appreciation. Saturday was the last evening […]
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‘Fourth annual Redneck ‘Blank’ this weekend will feature ‘unbridled fun’
HEBRON — Thousands of people from all over the country are expected to descend upon an otherwise quiet stretch of Route 124 for the fourth annual Redneck ‘Blank’ beginning Thursday. Several hundred would-be Olympians, a word the International Olympic Committee has twice threatened to sue over should organizer Harold Brooks ever use it to promote […]
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Redneck ‘Blank’ dates set
HEBRON — Behind the truck mud runs, the toilet seat ring tosses, the very wet T-shirt contest, lawsuits, crushed beer cans and camp smoke is the tranquil soul of Harold Brooks, founder of the Redneck Blank. Formerly the Redneck Olympics, the name is an intentional slight to the International Olympic Committee, which has twice sued […]
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Redneck and Wife: Nuptials take center stage as Hebron festival closes
HEBRON — Lucretia Blais is a bona fide city girl, born and raised in Lewiston-Auburn; she’s only redneck by marriage. And that’s official. Blais officially tied the knot with Jeffrey Gould of Lewiston on Saturday night on the stage at Hebron’s Redneck “Blank.” “They are not really giving us a lot of details on what’s […]