The American Festivals Project is a photo and video documentary that explores America’s vast—and strange—variety of small-town festivals. Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen, armed with a grant from National Geographic, cameras, video equipment, laptops, and a waste-vegetable-oil-powered truck, spent the better part of a year traveling to forty-nine states, visiting some of this nation's more bizarre celebrations of culture. You've heard of Mardi Gras and Bonnaroo, but how about the Okie Noodling Festival in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma? The Middle of Nowhere Celebration in Ainsworth, Nebraska? Perhaps, pictured here, the Woolly Worm Festival of Banner Elk, North Carolina?