Monday, May 6, 2013

Three-Day Farmers' Festival in Fairmont, 1954




From the May, 1954, issue of Extension Farm-News, published by N.C. State College, Raleigh

Fairmont Civitans Present Three-Day Farmers Festival

It takes a firm hand to keep a young farmer from joining clowns in a wonderful car that acts like a mule. Thirty thousand persons jammed roof tops and streets to watch a two-mile parade at the Farmers Festival, conceived five years ago by the Fairmont Civitan Club. Every spring since then, the countryside abandons business and devotes itself to three days of attending minstrel, dancing, eating barbecue, and listening to a minimum of speeches.

Fairmont is never lovelier than in April when Civitan Club presents a spring crop of beauties from two states for judging at the Farmers Festival. “Miss Farmer’s Festival of 1954” is second from the lower left. She is Sarah Williams, 18, of Tabor City.

The Civitan Club says its festival is held to thank the farmers “who make the business life of our city possible.” The crowd in the warehouse here received liberal thanks in the form of a $1,000 grand prize and 100 lesser gifts. Farmers also heard their governor speak and examined agricultural exhibits and machines.

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