|
The 2010 PurpleHull Pea Festival & World Championship Rotary Tiller Race will be June 25 &
26.
Please note a
few events will occur prior to
the weekend of the actual festival. Here's the schedule:
The Second Annual PurpleHull
Pea Festival Golf Tournament
-
Haynesville Country Club, was
Saturday, June 5. (Photos on our Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/purplehull.)
The Blessing of the PurpleHull Pea Crop was Sunday, June 13, at the
Billy Williams Farm, on County Road 5, about 5 miles west of Emerson.
The PurpleHull Pageant was Saturday, June
19.
The Kids
Fishing Derby was also June 19.
Now, for the festival schedule:
Friday, June
25, 2010 :
All day:
Arts & Crafts.
8:30 a.m. Senior Walk for World Peas
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Senior
Citizens Day Events
10:00 a.m. Welcome by Mayor Terressa Curtis
10:30 a.m. Dudneywood Sliver Hair Choir
11:00 a.m. Cake auction throughout day
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
5:30 p.m. Basketball Tourney begins
6:00 p.m. Auction (Great items to be auctioned!)
7:00 p.m. Gospel Concert
continued
9:00 - 9:30 p.m. The
PurpleHull Pea Festival 'Pea-tacular' Fireworks Show!
Saturday, June
26, 2010 :
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
9:00 a.m.
Basketball Tourney resumes
10:00 a.m.
The
magnoliareporter.com 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. -
Local entertainment
5:30 p.m. Pea Quilt Drawing
8:30 pm. -
11:30 pm
The finale - The BancorpSouth
Pea-Stompin'
Street Dance.featuring
White Mustang |
