Editing Lincoln, Arkansas (section)

=== Annual cultural events ===
The Lincoln Riding Club has hosted an annual [[rodeo]] since 1953. The three-day event begins with a parade and typically includes [[bull riding]], [[calf roping]], [[barrel racing]], [[steer wrestling]], a [[beauty pageant]], and a street dance.<ref>{{ cite news |title=Ready to ride – 67th annual Lincoln Rodeo primed for success |first=Mark |last= Humphrey |date= August 6, 2020 |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/06/lincoln-rodeo-primed-for-success/ |work= Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |location= Little Rock |issn= 1060-4332 |publisher= WEHCO Media |access-date= November 28, 2020 }}</ref>

Lincoln is home to the Arkansas Apple Festival, held annually since 1976 during the first weekend of October. Echoing the former prominence of apple growing in the Lincoln vicinity, vendors offer food, arts and crafts of the Ozarks for visitors in downtown Lincoln.<ref>{{ cite web |title= First-Time Festival Chairman Ronnie Allen Remembered |first=Martha |last=Brock |date= September 29, 2021 |orig-year=2006 |edition=Reprinted |url=https://wcel.nwaonline.com/news/2013/oct/02/first-festival-chairman-remembered-20131002/ |page=8B |work= Washington County Enterprise-Leader |publisher=Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC |oclc=401725818 |location= Farmington, Arkansas }}</ref>

Local Apple farmers developed the following in the Area.
* Collins' Red (aka Collins, Champion Red, Champion, Reagan's Red)—found by chance in a field near Lincoln; commercially propagated around 1886; a good colored fruit which keeps well, if kept properly
* Howard Sweet—the seedling is thought to have come from Earls Holt's Cane Hill nursery after the Civil War; grown near [[Cincinnati, Arkansas]] by Mr. Howard; a sweet, highly colored dessert apple; the tree has a heavy bloom
* Oliver Red (aka Oliver, Senator)—originated in Washington County; a yellow-skinned fruit washed with bright red; harvested in early September; a good dessert apple