One of my favorite festivals is headlining Fruita, Colo. in late May: the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival. My wife, daughters, and I headed west into a strong headwind for a few of these fests ...

Mike’s story quickly began to circulate not only in the small town of Fruita but beyond Colorado, too. “He was a national sensation, they were marketed in Life Magazine in 1945 and he began ...