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The Journal Gazette, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN

Published: June 13, 2010 3:00 a.m.
Kirk Gray

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The 61st annual Churubusco Turtle Days Festival is Wednesday through Saturday. Kirk Gray, president of the Turtle Days Association Board, spoke with editorial writer Stacey Stumpf about the popular festival.

http://journalgazette.net/article/20100613/EDIT12/306139937

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from buscovoice.com
Posted on 10 March 2010

CHURUBUSCO, Ind. – The Churubusco Turtle Days Festival Committee has grown so large that they had to find new meeting quarters! A great problem to have, according to President Kirk Gray.
http://www.buscovoice.com/2010/03/10/oscar-to-celebrate-the-wild-wild-west-at-2010-turtle-days-festival/

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from buscovoicw.com
Posted on 26 January 2010

CHURUBUSCO, Ind. (Jan., 2010) — Thursday night, Jan. 21, the Churubusco Turtle Days Association received two donations from the Churubusco American Legion Gilbert-Davis Post 157.
http://www.buscovoice.com/2010/01/26/legion-presents-turtle-days-with-donation-in-memory-of-tom-fletcher/

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a photo gallery from Indy Star

http://photos.indystar.com/galleries/6654-the-beast-of-churubusco#id=6654&num=34

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In '49, search for a giant turtle consumed Churubusco In the search for a giant turtle, things got a little crazy in '49

By Dan McFeely
from INDY STAR

Posted: June 17, 2009

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090617/LOCAL/906170364/In++49++search+for+a+giant+turtle+consumed+Churubusco

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'Busco legend lives on: Oscar the turtle spawned annual festival now celebrating its 60th year

By Deb Todd

nsfeatures@news-sentinel.com
 
The Chicago Tribune christened him “Sasquatch in a Shell.”
The Journal Gazette coined “The Beast of Busco,” and The News-Sentinel dubbed him “Oscar,” namesake to Oscar Fulk, the first to claim seeing a monstrous terrapin in his lake in 1898.

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Turtle Days Girls Softball Tourney Looking for Players

from buscovoice.com

Posted on 10 June 2009

The Turtle Days Festival Association is sponsoring a girls softball tournament on Saturday, June 20, at Churubusco Community Park

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Busco Celebrates 60 Years of Turtle Mania

from buscovoice.com
Posted on 09 June 2009
The brochures and raffle tickets and posters are printed, registrations for festival events are rolling in, and children are busy catching that enthusiastic, fast-sprinting turtle that just might win the big race at the Churubusco Turtle Days Festival June 17-20.

 

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Commemorative Quilt to be Raffled at Festival - on Display Now at Star/Jones Agency

from buscovoice.com

Posted on 09 June 2009

The Churubusco Quilt Club and the Turtle Days Festival Association are selling raffle tickets for a 60th anniversary commemorative quilt - on display now at Star/Jones Insurance agency - that will be given away during the Turtle Days Festival, June 17-20.

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The 1949 Story of the Hunt for Oscar, the Beast of Busco, According to the Indianapolis Star

from buscovoice.com

Posted on 26 May 2009

(Ed. note: The following story “The Beast of Busco” ran in the Indianapolis Star Sunday, March 13, 1949. It was written along with many follow-up and accompanying articles, by Star reporter Victor Peterson, who apparently spent a lot of time in Churubusco that year.)

By Victor Peterson

I SAW the Beast of Busco … I think.

Snowflakes rode out a cold wind as Gale Harris shoved the rowboat out on the choppy water of Fulk’s Lake which covers seven acres of his farm.

We were looking for a monster turtle said to be too wide to get through a door, 500 years old and weighing 500 pounds.