Peanut Festival Part II and Miscellaneous Pictures of Emporia

The Peanut Festival Parade begins at the High School and finishes across the Meherrin River.

A few  Swedish tourists

(on the left)

Local celebrants enjoying the parade

Brief interruption of parade. Volunteer Ambulance service rushes conservative husband to local hospital when he found his wife watching not the parade but MSNBC!

No senators or famous actors but you could find some big brass

 

Along the way, our new Farmer's Market.

  

Could not come but sent his friends.

All aboard to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and the Peanut Festival in Emporia?  Not yet but maybe the train will stop again........someday.

Emporia Peanut Festival Pt 1

New Orleans has its Mardi Gras, New York City is the place to go on New Year's Eve, and Emporia is completes the big three with its Peanut Festival.  People from as far as Skippers and Jarratt crowd into town for the festivities.  Where else can you see the Greenville County High School Band perform?  Not Paris or Rome!

I have included a few shots representative of this year's Peanut Festival.  If you missed it, next year should be just as memorable!

I hope I'll see a tractor or two while risking my life picking up penny candy off the street thrown from the floats! 

Volunteer farmer/police force.  Due to budget cuts, Greenville County has authorized farmers to patrol backroads.  Several conditions:  no firearms or pursuit of speeders.  

Cheerleaders                                                                             Greensville High School Band

Minority recruitment for the Band and Cheerleader squad very successful!