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It looks like 2014 is going to be another big year for bacon! Bacon’s popularity shows no sign of dying down, a fact that is reflected by the huge number of bacon festivals already slated for 2014. The biggest bacon festival of them all, the Blue Ribbon Baconfest in Des Moines, Iowa, increased its capacity from 8,000 attendees in 2013 to 12,000 attendees in 2014. From small towns to big cities, baconfests are springing up everywhere across the USA. Check the list below to see if one is coming to a town near you. If not, don’t despair! This list will be updated throughout 2014 as new festivals are announced, so check back often. Bacon on, bacon fans!

2/22/14 – Austin Bacon and Beer Festival – Austin, TX
2/22/14 – Denver Beer Co.’s Beer, Bacon & Coffee Fest – Denver, CO
3/8/14 – Bacon & Beer Festival – Fargo, ND
3/9/14 – Bacon and Beer Festival – Oakland, CA
3/16/14 – 2nd Annual Bacon Fest – Juneau, AK
3/22/14 – Bacon Chase – Hampton, GA
3/22/14 – Beer, Bourbon, BBQ and Bacon Festival – New Haven, CT
3/28 – 3/29 – Hogs for the Cause – New Orleans, LA
3/29/14 – Beer & Bacon Fest – Cary, NC
3/29/14 – Beer, Bourbon and Bacon Fest – Fort Wayne, IN
3/29/14 – Bacon Fest – Atlanta, GA
3/29/14 – Cedar Valley Baconfest – Waterloo, IA
4/12/14 – DC Bacon and Beer Festival – Washington, DC
4/25 – 4/26/14 – Baconfest Chicago – Chicago, IL
4/26/14 – Dewey Beach Bacon Fest – Dewey Beach, DE
4/26/14 – Northshore Bacon Fest – Glenview, IL
5/3/14 – Cave Spring Bacon Fest – Cave Spring, GA
5/17 – 5/18/14 – Beer Bacon Music – Frederick, MD
5/17/14 – Stanley’s Beer & Bacon Fest – Minneapolis, MN
5/29 – 6/1 – Zingerman’s Camp Bacon – Ann Arbor, MI
5/31/14 – Bacon & Barrels – San Diego
6/7/14 – Great Saskatchewan Bacon Festival – Kipling, Saskatchewan
6/7/14 – Arizona Bacon Fest – Tucson, AZ
6/7/14 – Big Bacon Bonanza – Davenport, IA
6/28/14 – Bacon Brew Fest – Kempton, PA
7/5/14 – Big Bite Bacon Fest – Del Mar, CA
7/12/14 – Bacon, Brew & BBQ Fest – Sun Prairie, WI
7/18 – 7/20 – Bacon & Barrels – Los Olivos, CA
8/2/14 – Baconfest VA – Roanoke, VA
8/2/14 – Omaha Beer & Bacon Fest – Omaha, NE
8/23/14 – Bacon-Fest – Kansas City, MO
8/30/14 – Hormel Black Label Bacon Fest – San Diego, CA
9/27/14 – Baconfest St. Joe – St. Joe MO
10/18/14 – Southwest Bacon Fest – Albuquerque, NM
10/18/14 – Bacon Bash Texas – Cranfills Gap, TX
10/11/14 – Ozarks Bacon Fest – Springfield, MO
11/8 – 11/9 – PA Bacon Fest – Easton, PA

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Notorious murder James D. French's last words before being executed were a joke—and a pretty funny one at that

James D. French was an American criminal who, while hitchhiking across Texas in 1958, kidnapped a motorist who offered him a lift. He killed his hostage near Stroud, Oklahoma. He was 22 years old at the time.

French was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. He already had 5 children and was very much loved by his girlfriend, Angel Goudy. Not willing to spend his life in prison, and too scared to commit suicide, he strangled his cellmate to death in an effort to force the state to order the death penalty.

Before French killed his cellmate, Eddie Shelton, he decided the man should have a last meal, and treated him to a steak sandwich from the snack bar. French issued a plea to be executed without appeal.

On 10 August 1966, at the age of 30, James Donald French was electrocuted at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the last person executed under Oklahoma’s death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia and the only person executed in the United States in 1966. Apparently French’s famous last words before his death by electric chair were: “How’s this for a headline? 'French Fries'”

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