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The smell of pulled pork, barbecue, and bacon will be the aroma on Adams Street, well before pigs can fly.
The Flying Pigs of Toledo School for the Arts (TSA) are hosting the first Toledo Pig Fest, a festival featuring food trucks and live entertainment, on Saturday, Oct. 17 from 11am to 7pm.
“Whether someone comes for the bacon, the music, the local restaurants or the flying-pig story, we want Pig Fest to feel like a celebration of Toledo,” said Michelle Greer, food truck organizer for the event. “It is designed to be fun, surprising and easy to experience with friends, family or a Sweetest Day date.”
The story of Toledo’s own flying pigs comes from when TSA was just a work in progress. When community leaders were working to establish TSA, a prominent Toledoan reportedly dismissed the possibility that the city would ever have a premier arts school, saying it would happen “when pigs fly.”…