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An estimated 356 people young and old, from Davidson and beyond, swarmed the Davidson Village Green Saturday to set an (unofficial) Guinness Book of World Records mark for the most people bouncing paddle balls at one time. Here’s a 4-minute video of the record, produced by DavidsonNews.net.

RELATED LINK: Sept. 3, 2011, “356 paddleballers set a world record on the Green.”

Can’t see the video? Watch it directly on YouTube.

Steve Langley is emcee of the Vaudeville Extravaganza at Davidson College Saturday night, part of the 2011 Hurricane Hugo Juggling festival. Ed Haponik (right) will demonstrate his yo-yo prowess.

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

Had a tough week at work? Depressed because the kids are back in school? Cheer up – the weekend’s here, and there’s plenty to do – with kids and without. The Carolina Panthers play their final home preseason game on Thursday night, and an Extreme Tailgate Party is planned in downtown Charlotte before the game. The Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival, including two nights of fire juggling and a world record attempt for most simultaneous paddle ballers, runs Friday to Sunday. And don’t forget the festival’s Vaudeville Extravaganza Saturday night at Davidson College. In Charlotte, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte will host a tribute to jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, and both Davidson Day and Hough High have high school football games on the road.

On Saturday, a Punt, Pass & Kick competition will be at Smithville Park in Cornelius, the two-day F2C Control Line Airplane Team Racing Trials begins at David B. Waymer Flying Field in Huntersville, while Fall Into Huntersville begins at Discovery Place Kids in downtown Huntersville. On Sunday, the Davidson-based Sunday Union Band will perform at  Davidson Concert on the Green. Read the full story

Night of family fun is a highlight of the 20th Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival downtown and on the Davidson College campus

Dozens of jugglers from throughout the Southeast will converge on Davidson the weekend of Sept. 3-5 for the 20th annual Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival and its centerpiece event, the Vaudeville Extravaganza.

The family-friendly show is Saturday at 7 p.m. in Duke Family Performance Hall in Davidson College’s Alvarez College Union.

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Best-selling novelist Dorothy Allison, this year’s McGree visiting professor of writing at Davidson College, will have a public reading and book signing Monday night at the college union. That’s among the highlights of our busy community calendar this week before Labor Day. Also on the schedule, a pair of juggling-related events: The Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival with a public juggling session on the Village Green Saturday morning, and a related evening show called the Family Vaudeville Extravaganza. Also: lectures, a documentary film screening and sporting events at the college, and live music at local venues.

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The annual Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival returns to Davidson next weekend, Saturday, Sept. 5, with two public events focused on object manipulation: juggling lessons on the Village Green and the Family Vaudeville Extravaganza Saturday night.
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