Introduction
By Judy Koutsky
Indiana is a great state to visit in the summer, especially since there is no shortage of festivals and fairs to keep you occupied.
Food lovers will love the July Pierogi Festival in Whiting, Indiana (www.pierogifest.net), in the most northwestern corner of the state near Illinois. The festival started in 1994 as a tribute to the Eastern European settlers of the area and now is a three-day smorgasbord of European food including dumplings, Polish sausage and stuffed cabbage. Plus, enjoy the festive polka music that is played throughout the festival.
In the town of Frankfort (about 40 miles north of Indianapolis) there is the annual Hot Dog Festival (http://mainstreet.accs.net), a weekend's worth of various versions of the meaty treat, plus there are hot dog eating contests and live music.
Head southwest out of Indianapolis on I-70 to Brazil, home of Orville Redenbacher, for the Popcorn Festival (www.popcornfest.net), which honors not only one of the state's biggest exports (240 million pounds of popcorn are produced in Indiana annually), but the city's popcorn king, too.
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