* Sweet Auburn, a historic African-American neighborhood along Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.

The city's unofficial nickname is “ The Loveliest Village On The Plains ,” taken from a line in the poem “ The Deserted Village ” by Oliver Goldsmith: “ Sweet Auburn!

The name for the community likely came from " The Deserted Village " by Oliver Goldsmith, that begins " Sweet Auburn!

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A Michigan-based space rock scene included Burnt Hair Records, Darla Records, and bands such as Windy & Carl, Mahogany, Sweet Trip, Tomorrowland, Delta Waves, Starphase 23, Füxa, Auburn Lull, Monaural, Asha Vida, and Alison's Halo.

It also won " Best Short Film " at The Sweet Auburn International Film Festival, and the " Short Film " award at the Hollywood Black Film Festival.

By the early 20th century, " Sweet " Auburn Avenue was called " the most prosperous Negro street in the nation ".

Ironically, both artists would have hits at King working with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame producer Ralph Bass, becoming good friends and routinely competing in battles of the bands at clubs like Atlanta's Royal Peacock in that city's Sweet Auburn section.

The inscription on the plinth alludes to the poet's lament for the passing of the imagined village of ' Sweet Auburn '.

The land that became Mount Auburn Cemetery was originally named Stone's Farm, though locals referred to it as " Sweet Auburn " after the 1770 poem " The Deserted Village " by Oliver Goldsmith.

* Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: An nonfiction account of Ivan Allen's rise to social, economic, and political prominence.

Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site established on October 10, 1980, consists of several buildings surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr .' s boyhood home on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district of Atlanta, Georgia.

The visitor center contains a museum that chronicles the American civil rights movement which follows the parallel paths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr .. A firehouse ( Fire Station No. 6 ), built in 1894, served the Sweet Auburn community until 1991, and now contains a gift shop and an exhibit on desegregation in the Atlanta Fire Department.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Corretta Scott King Tomb in the Sweet Auburn district, preserved as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.

With Auburn University, Daniels reached the Sweet 16 in the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

In 1924, he opened the city's Municipal Market ( today's Sweet Auburn Curb Market ).

The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along Auburn Avenue ( originally named Wheat Street ) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the " richest Negro street in the world ".

In addition to Auburn Avenue itself, the surrounding neighborhood, also called Sweet Auburn is one of 242 officially recognized neighborhoods of Atlanta.

Sweet Auburn used to be two separate neighborhoods: Grady / Antoine Graves ( the Grady Homes housing project ) and Butler Street.

Turrón ( Spanish Nougat ), Sweet Arab Heritage

* Virginia African American Heritage Program ( Sweet Briar is listed as a Heritage Site )

Sweet Auburn celebrates the annual Auburn SpringFest, and in the Fall, the Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival.

The Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival is an annual festival held the first weekend in October on Auburn Avenue.

The festival ’ s entertainment varies from comedians to up and coming artist from diverse genres of music. The Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival searches for entertainment from cities such as Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, Huntsville and Chattanooga in hopes to help non-established artist ’ s path to stardom.

Ultimately, the Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival entertainment has grown much farther than originally anticipated from its beginning stages in 1984.

* Residence of Bishop Charles Manuel ( Sweet Daddy Grace ) – Cultural Tourism DC / African American Heritage Trail

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

* Olathe Sweet Corn Festival

Beginning in 1961, the Annual Sweet Potato Festival has been held in Ocilla, currently on the last Saturday in October.

Each year in July, Chatham is host to the Chatham Sweet Corn Festival and Illinois Championship Cow Chip Throw sponsored by the Chatham Jaycees.

The National Sweet Potato Festival is held there annually the entire first week in November.

Millersport is most notable as the home of the Sweet Corn Festival, which is held in Millersport annually during the first week of September.

Lodi hosts the annual Sweet Corn Festival in the middle of July.

Released at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was based on Melvin Van Peebles ' struggle to film and distribute the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and was directed by his son Mario Van Peebles.

Peaches played live at the Parklife Festival in Australia, in the fall of 2008, with the German band Sweet Machine.

They went on to undertake a UK tour, including a return to the Royal Festival Hall, where they recorded the Sweet Child album forty years earlier.

Polley's subsequent role as Nicole Burnell in the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter, brought her considerable attention in the United States ; she was a fan favourite at the Sundance Film Festival.

This started in 1994 with Ladybird, Ladybird ; then, in chronological order: Land and Freedom, Carla's Song, My Name Is Joe, Bread and Roses, The Navigators, Sweet Sixteen, Ae Fond Kiss, The Wind That Shakes the Barley which won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and, most recently, It's a Free World ....

Each year Wem holds a traditional town carnival on the first Saturday of September, as well as the Sweet Pea Festival.

McCamus has been nominated for the Genie Award on two occasions since, for Long Day's Journey into Night ( 1996 ), also directed by Wellington, in which McCamus reprised his successful performance as Edmund Tyrone from the Stratford Festival, and for the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 ), directed by Atom Egoyan.

She also appeared on the 1988 MESAM Festival, performing the song " Slatke suze ljubavi " (" Sweet Tears of Love "), and on the 1989 MESAM, performing the song " Kad sreća odlazi " (" When Happiness is Leaving "), winning the Best Interpretation Award.

On 2 October 2010, guitarist and songwriter Trev Fleming died after treatment for a recent illness, he had been missing from the bands lineup since February 2010 and was not present for support slots with Deep Purple and Iron Maiden or for Sweet Savage's performance at Sonisphere Festival.

Among the cultural festivals and programmes characteristic of the region are the Csángófesztivál ( Csángó Festival ) in Jászberény, the Cseresznyefesztivál ( Sweet Cherry Festival ) in Nagykörű, the Gulyásfesztivál ( Goulash Festival ) in Szolnok, the Hídi Vásár ( Bridge Fair ) in Hortobágy, the Hunniális at Ópusztaszer, the Szabadtéri Játékok ( Open-air Games ) in Szeged, the Várjátékok ( Castle Games ) in Gyula, the Virágkarnevál ( Flower Carnival ) in Debrecen and the Bajai Halászléfőző Népünnepély ( Fisherman's Soup Boiling Festival ) in Baja.