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Several cities in the Midwest have had summer-long celebrations which were anchored around some famous aspect of each city, exemplified by incredibly varied, indiviually painted sculptures. Ones that I actually visited included Dayton, which had 50 little race cars scattered around the city, because of so many automotive innovations. Ann Arbor Michigan had large fish "swimming" all over the city. Cincinnati, which in its early years was a transportation hub on the Ohio river, for farm products displayed the most wonderful variety of decorated pigs. Toledo had based a good part of downtown revitilization around a popular area known as Frog Alley, hence the fantastic frogs.