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Frozen Dead Guy Days start Friday

After 20 years, Nederland's celebration of its coolest resident is still kicking with this weekend's Frozen Dead Guy Days.
The body of Norwegian Bredo Morstol arrived in November 1989, as his grandson hoped to open a cryonics facility in Nederland. The lab never happened, but "Granpa Bredo," a.k.a. the Frozen Dead Guy, has been on ice ever since.
Each March the town of 1,400 has welcomed tens of thousands to celebrate with funky festivities.
A downtown beer tent opens at 3 p.m. Friday, to limber up the crowd before opening ceremonies downtown at 7 p.m., followed by the Space Oddity Blue Ball, "all aliens and other space travelers welcome," the Nederland Chamber of Commerce advised.
Saturday includes a Granpa look-a-like contest at 10 a.m., a parade of hearses at noon, a polar plunge at 1 p.m. and coffin races at 2 p.m., along with live music and other festivities.
Sunday includes "family fun" events and a Rocky Mountain oyster-eating contest at 3 p.m.
For more information visit http://www.nederlandchamber.org/events_fdgd-home.html

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