In the Year of Festivals, Texas Monthly writers gamely join community celebrations across the state. Bring on the pageants, cook-offs, and parades! This Thanksgiving, thousands of Texans will lace up their sneakers to run a few miles in turkey trots across the state. But in the small South Texas town of Cuero, ninety miles southeast of San Antonio, devoted revelers converge a month earlier for a literal turkey trot. Most of the events at Turkeyfest, the community’s fall extravaganza, are typical small-town Texas festival fare: a parade, a barbecue cook-off, concerts, and a jalapeño-eating competition. But the main attraction is the Great Gobbler Gallop, a live turkey race that celebrates more than a century of Cuero’s rich turkey history. Turkeyfest is the latest iteration of a long line of…
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