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Everything starts with an idea. It was no different for the PurpleHull Pea Festival. The festival owes its existence to one person, Glen Eades, who, in 1990, had an idea for a festival that would pay homage to the delicacy grown in almost all local backyard gardens of the area, the purple hull pea. It was also Glen who thought it'd be a good idea to have a race of a particular garden implement - and thus the World Championship Rotary Tiller Race was born. During the time he was proposing that Emerson host a festival, Glen was also writing a bi-weekly column for the newspaper in Magnolia, the Banner News. Most citizen-reporters from around Columbia County would write about who-visited-who in the hospital, or who had the local pastor over for Sunday dinner. Finding such run-of-the-mill news from the local populace not easily forthcoming, Glen came up with a solution: He made stuff up. Glen created two fictional characters, Billy Joe and Bubba Earl. He wrote about their exploits as they interacted with real people in the community. Occasionally, he'd throw in one other character, Bubba Earl's mother, the itinerant medical practitioner Earlie Pearl. The result was a level of hilarity rarely seen in print in our parts. We thought we'd share some of Glen's early writings with you. The links below will direct you to some of Glen's more entertaining columns from 1990 and 1991. The titles for each article aren't Glen's - we added titles to help you remember which article was printed on which date. Enjoy. March
2, 1990 - Gold Digging Magnolia Females
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