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PIONEER GAMES AND plain, muddy fun. Eight local teams The Railsplitting competition
RAILSPLITTING CONTEST compete in a dozen pioneer games celebrates an activity closely associ-
Some of the of the most unique events that include: team rail split, ated with Abraham Lincoln during
and entertaining aspects of Lincoln egg toss, crosscut saw, corn shelling, his lifetime and features both pro-
Days are the Pioneer Games and horseshoe toss, water boil, spoon fessional and amateur class events.
Railsplitting competitions. A long- relay, tug-of-war, bucket brigade Participants attend from all over
time LaRue County tradition, and the pole ride, where contes- the country to see how fast they
most events are based on skills tants use pillows to try and knock can split a ten foot-oak log into
that would have been essential to each other into an six-foot deep eight evenly sized rails.
pioneer living, and the rest are just mud pit while straddling a log.

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