Posted on 06/18/2005 8:39:35 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Spivey's Corner ready to holler
SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. — For the 37th year, people from all over the world are converging on a small North Carolina town to hear a nearly lost art: hollerin'.
About 3,000 people are expected for the contest today. The winner receives a trophy and the recognition of being the champion hollerer.
The Annual National Hollerin' Contest raises funds for the town's all-volunteer fire department. But, equally important, it preserves what contest chairman Wayne Edwards calls a North Carolina "oddity."
Edwards says hollerin' was Eastern North Carolina's first form of communication. He says people were identified by their signature holler.
While the contest is the city's major annual event, Edwards says Spivey's Corner holds onto the old values of life, liberty and brotherhood.
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I thought he was in the Screaming Contest.
WHAT YOU SAY?
LOL!
That montage always gets me! Especially funny to me is Mr. Stay-Puft next to Mr. Gore...
they're ALL pikers compared to my darlin' wife , ask our kids
Where's the Hildebeast?
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