Yarmouth Clam Festival

These annual competitions in Maine are quirky, out of the ordinary, and can even be downright dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Clam Festival week is here! Here are some of the best places to sit down and eat or have a drink after you're festival-ed out!

Always the third Friday in July!

The Yarmouth Clam Festival is about more than clams. There are about thirty non-profit groups that take part and make this community event so special.

Barry Williams, AKA Greg Brady, will be in the Yarmouth Clam Festival parade on Friday, July tenth and available for ogling and autographs on Saturday, July eleventh.

The 53rd annual Yarmouth Clam Festival is coming up... here's the full lineup and schedule for the whole weekend!

Yarmouth residents take the Clam Festival Parade very seriously. So seriously in fact that they'll claim their spot on Main street days before the parade (see above photo). It's become a bit of a ritual to place a lawn chair on the side of the road a couple days before the parade and the people of Yarmouth seem to respect other people's property and leave the chairs where the are...

If you were among the thousands of people who saw the Yarmouth Clam Festival parade on Friday evening, you watched dozens of creative floats along Main Street.

More than 130,000 people attended the Yarmouth Clam Festival this weekend, according to WMTW.

Jeff and Lori predicted they would come in last at Saturday's Maine State Clam Shucking Contest at the Yarmouth Clam Festival and they were right. But they had a great time celebrating their impressive finish. If you don't believe me, check out the video: Either way, a tried and true Maine tradition was honored and proved to be a quintessential part of the three-day festival that included everythi