I realized that it is the 26th anniversary of the amazingly popular Kool-Aid Days Festival. The weekend-long celebration of the drink mix product developed by Hastings’ own Edwin Perkins in 1927 ...

While Arbor Day ... calls Nebraska home is Kool-Aid. Invented in 1927 as a powered substance to add to water, Kool-Aid (originally called Kool-Ade) was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings ...

HASTINGS, Neb. — Two popular central Nebraska events are set to kick off today in Hastings. Kool-Aid Days will be held from today until Sunday with the theme of "25 Flavours for 25 Years". The event ...

Enjoy a refreshing glass of Kool-Aid today! National Kool-Aid Day coincides with the first day of Kool-Aid Days each year, which is always celebrated on the second weekend of August in Hastings ...

1998: Todd Kirshenbaum, marketing director of Hastings Museum, prepares for the first annual Kool-Aid Days in Hastings. 1999: State Sen. Ardyce Bohlke, who successfully lobbied to have Kool-Aid ...

When Nathan and Jessi Hoeft opened First Street Brewing in Hastings, Nebraska, they kept getting the same request over and over: Make a Kool-Aid beer ... and call it a day.

OMAHA, Neb. (KPTM) — Every August Hastings, Nebraska hosts a festival called Kool-Aid Days to pay homage to the inventor of the drink, according to nationaldaycalendar.com. The inventor, Edwin Perkins ...