If you have lived in the Kamas Valley for more than one summer, you already know the calendar bends around the third week of July. What outsiders read as a rodeo weekend is, for residents, the one stretch when the town's normal summer scaffolding reorganizes itself. The Thursday concert you drive to on autopilot moves against a different traffic pattern. The Saturday farmers market shares its grounds with rodeo stock. Main Street, quiet the other fifty-one weeks of the year, turns into the axis everything rotates around.
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