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The 2008 PurpleHull Pea Festival & World Championship Rotary Tiller Race will be June 27 &
28.
Please note a
few events will occur prior to
the weekend of the actual festival. Here's the schedule:
The Blessing of the PurpleHull Pea Crop will be Sunday, June
1, at the Billy Williams Farm, on County Road 5, about 5 miles west of
Emerson..
The PurpleHull Pageant will be June 14.
The Kids
Fishing Derby will be June 21.
Now, for the festival schedule. Below is the preliminary
schedule. Please note that with a few events the time is subject
to change. Please check back to this page for any updates.
Friday, June
27, 2008 :
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Senior
Citizens Day Events (Details to come. Free Pea Meal to
Senior Citizens.)
Afternoon events to come - keep
checking back.
9:00 - 9:30 p.m. The
PurpleHull Pea Festival 'Pea-tacular' Fireworks Show! The biggest
fireworks display in Columbia County!
9:35 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Entertainment
Saturday, June
28, 2009 :
All Day:
Entertainment inside air-conditioned
school cafetorium
All Day, beginning at 7:00 a.m.:
Arts & Crafts
8:00 a.m.
Senior Walk for World Peas
9:00 a.m.
Kids' Bike Race and Trike Race
9:00 a.m.
Tournaments begin
10:00 a.m.
Kids Division of the World Championship Rotary
Tiller Race
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.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..
11:00 a.m.
Emerson PurpleHull Pea Meals begin
11:00 a.m.
World Cup PurpleHull Pea Shelling
Competition 1:00 p.m.
The world renown Million Tiller Parade
2:30 p.m.
The Weyerhaeuser 200 World Championship Rotary
Tiller
Race. 8:00
pm. -
Midnight
The finale - The BancorpSouth
Pea-Stompin'
Street Dance. |
