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The 2011 PurpleHull Pea Festival & World Championship Rotary Tiller Race will be June 24 &
25.
Please note a
few events will occur prior to
the weekend of the actual festival. Here's the current schedule.
Please check back for any updates:
The Blessing of the PurpleHull Pea Crop - was June 11.
The PurpleHull Pageant - was June 18.
The Kids
Fishing Derby was the morning of June 18.
Now, for the 2011 festival schedule:
Friday, June
24, 2011 :
All day:
Arts & Crafts.
8:00 a.m. Senior Walk for World Peas
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Senior
Citizens Day Events
All day - Pea items for sale
All day - Door prizes
10:00 a.m. Welcome by Mayor Terressa Curtis
10:30 a.m. Dudneywood Sliver Hair Choir
11:30 a.m. Pea Lunch Served (Free to 55 & older)
1:30 p.m. Dudneywood Silver Hair Choir
2:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. PurpleHull Pea Crowning
3:00 p.m. Gospel Entertainment - Various groups into the evening
9:00 - 9:30 p.m. The
PurpleHull Pea Festival 'Pea-tacular' Fireworks Show!
Saturday, June
25, 2011 :
All Day, beginning at 8:00 a.m.:
Arts & Crafts
All Day, beginning at 8:00 a.m.: Entertainment in the air conditioned cafetorium.
8:00 a.m. Tractor Show check in
9:00 a.m.
Kids Division of the World Championship Rotary
Tiller Race
10:00 a.m.
The
magnoliareporter.com/KZHE 200 World Championship Rotary
Tiller
Race.
11:00 a.m.
Kids' Bike Race and Trike Race
11:00 a.m.
Tractor Exhibitions begin
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Emerson PurpleHull Pea Meals
1:00 p.m.
The world renown Million Tiller Parade.
2:00 p.m.
World Cup PurpleHull Pea Shelling
Competition
3:00 p.m. The Great PurpleHull Peas &
Cornbread Cook Off. Bring your best PurpleHull Peas and
Cornbread dish and earn for yourself a place in PurpleHull cooking
history.
4:00 p.m. -
Judging of Pea Plant Contest
4:00 p.m. - Local Entertainment
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
- 50-Plus Reunion (Graduate from
Emerson 50 or more years ago? This is for you!)
5:30 p.m. Pea Quilt Drawing
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. -
Tour of school for reunion attendees
8:30 pm. -
11:00 pm
The finale - The BancorpSouth
Pea-Stompin'
Street Dance featuring Dick's Hat Band. |
