Cincinnati has a Schuetzenfest at Cincinnati Kolping Society every July. The King, the Schuetzen Koenig, is the one who shoots the last bit of a carved Eagle from a post. This comes from long ago, when a stranger in a small town saved the village children from an eagle that had been snatching the little ones and flying off with them. He shot the eagle and the town made him King for a year. I believe this was in the 1600's. A lot of German clubs have Schuetzenfests.