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By PAUL DUKE WINCHESTER, April 27 as — 1 Now, let it ever be said this was 4 a day of bountiful jubilation in, Shenandoah Apple Land ... with Queen, princesses and subjects f pursuing a delirium of delight at’ the royal ‘command. ' For truly this was the climax © galore 10 three maplc days that 3 sent a'fleeing worry and any complice, fear... driven away’ “by the carefree reign of joy at the Apple Blossom Festival that comes but once a year, t Today the sun ig strong and wondrous spring is swelling BAY 4 hearts with rapture complete... The vernal season is Victor at last over its ancient foe and winter is in full retreat : Queen Mimi, angelically com 4 ‘posed in white and brown eyes a twinkle. smiling greets told prominent visitors. from afar,'s Miss Cyd Charisse and Mr. Bert Parks .... they are here to spread gaiely and good will in this land of happy larks. It Winchester is a carnival, with the eager hawkers out at dawn to peddle their wares—and hooky playing kids munching cotton, candy and x snowballs—and = y apples of candy red... the proplej, so here in multiple numbers, more than 100,000 no less packed in nook and cranny head to head. The younger set is queued UB Hor free rides on the caterpillar and merry-go-round .2. and a. van is making a mint by selling! toy dog that hops around and wakes a barking sound. And here comes the parade, with snats of orange and blue and elow and lavender, and pretty stemaged girly by the score igh-stepping bands and marching units in a mlitary precision, 246 m W with flag toters in groups of our. . Now in view comes her majesty, Mimi MacArthur, who is a queen W019 and rides in her golden car ‘vage followed by royal entourage . princesses 36 follow in green alfeta, posing prettily for a pic ure that's no mirage Next we have hometown hill billy heroine Patsy Cline and Johnny of cigarette fame the Naid-killed lasses of ve olde Kad ‘ord’ College and the red-shirted jax of Galax High playing the spirit of old Notre Dame. A drum make from Altoona, Pa., casually flips four batons in t he air and catches bem (some times with the greatest of ease; ++ cars of ancient vintage roll’ by, including a 1910 green Ford, whose motor purrs with a distinct’ wheeze. And now pageant and parade is ended. The laughter becomes a whisper. The magic erases and merriment is suspended in apple heaven ... but don't despair, folks, because there'll be another festival of fun in ‘5%.
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Sat, Apr 28, 1956
Page 14
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