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: The first MarshWalk Festival in Murrells Inlet
: is now soggy history. It rained off and on
: all day leaving water standing in the roads,
: the ditches and the fields. Nevertheless,
: 18 teams (all they had room for)
: participated and the staff at the Wicked
: Tuna could not have done a better job for a
: first event. With good humor they worked
: hard and braved the weather and left all of
: the cookers praising their efforts. The
: cookers are still agog about that gourmet
: breakfast of omelets, biscuits and gravy,
: sausage and eggs and more. And they all
: wanted to take home one of those great
: trophies made out of 800 year-old cypress
: wood hauled up from the bottom of the
: Waccamaw River where it had rested for over
: 100 years. With a real meat cleaver affixed
: to the top of that beautiful wood it made a
: most striking prize. And they weren’t shy
: about passing them out either giving one to
: everybody through five places plus people’s
: choice and the Friday night Wing Ding.
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: They even had some great bands including a
: very young but very good “Stepin Stones”
: with a 17 year old girl as the vocalist who
: could really belt them out. But then so
: could the vocalist in the country group that
: was there the name of which I’ve,
: unfortunately, forgotten. When they were
: playing and the vocalist was singing
: “Jolene” I had to walk around there to see
: if it was real or a recording. It was
: definitely real plus real good.
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: When you consider that they also had three
: different craft beer distributors there
: keeping the people entertained too this is
: going to be a festival to put on your visit
: list in the future.
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: Joe Hilliard and the Bold Branch Boys took
: home the top prize in butts plus a second in
: ribs. They obviously came to play. One
: other interesting situation at Murrells
: Inlet was that the MarshWalk had five teams
: sporting a Murrell Inlet address none of
: which had cooked SCBA before. In fact I
: think four of them had not competed in a
: cook-off before. Plus there were a couple of
: other teams who were giving it their first
: effort. We were quite pleased with that.
: These new teams did well, especially in the
: Wing Ding and People’s Choice. Plus there
: were a couple of North Carolina teams there,
: one of which finished in the money.
:
: My assistants were Quentin and Barbara
: Tedder who did their usual splendid job
: reliving me of all the work. Quentin will
: be the Marshal next year. Mike Wilson had
: the scores in jig time and you may have
: noticed that scores are all being posted
: immediately by Don Dickens who is new at
: that job. He also sat on one of the novice
: tables. We had just enough judges but I was
: disappointed to see that a few who signed up
: did not show up. A few (three) sent me an
: email telling me that they were going to
: have to miss which I appreciated but a few
: did not. Please remember - if you sign up
: you should show up.
:
: Rev. Joe Tanham, Ed Dauganus and Greg
: Gladney handled the three full tables of
: novices we had (we had to turn novices away
: at sign-up so we have some enthusiasm
: novices in the wings) and Gene Yow who is
: just coming on line for new tasks handled
: his second table captain duty with his usual
: great enthusiasm. David Mobley had to
: struggle along on the receiving table
: without Dan Shine who couldn’t make it (he
: sent me a note forewarning me of his
: absence) but thank goodness Diane Gladney
: was there to keep him straight.
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: Despite the off-and-on rain some of which
: was hard, a good number of people showed up
: for the festival and if the weather gods are
: favorable next year it should be a
: remarkable success given the location and
: the hard-working staff. Even though I will
: not be the Marshal next year I’ll probably
: be there just to enjoy the fun.
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