Happy New Year! We’re finally back and we’ve added a new feature. If you’re a regular listener, you may recall that each week we have a feature called “One Cool Thing” where we highlight our week. Todd still will be sharing his weekly adventures in digital marketing, but we’ve tweaked mine a bit because I honestly rarely leave my house.
Starting this week we’ve added a history component to the show wherein I pick an old newspaper story about Delmarva and Todd and I get to experience the Eastern Shore as it was. The good ol’ days, if you will.
We kick off with an account of the Delmarva Chicken Festival from 1971. The year is critical because, to my absolute shock, women still didn’t have first names in the 1970s according to the Baltimore Sun.
The winners of the chicken cooking contest that year were:
Mrs. Thomas H. Young, Mrs. Ronald Powell, Mrs. Thomas W. Piantek and Mrs. John Petrelli.
I guess if they wanted names they wouldn’t have gotten married. For instance, Miss Beverly Green of Princess Anne (who was named Delmarva Poultry Princess) and Miss Kimberly Ann Phillips (who was named Little Miss Delmarva Poultry Princess), had their first names consigned to history because they didn’t yet have the burden of a husband.
By the way, if you know Kimberly Ann Phillips, tell her we said, “Hello.” If you are Kimberly Ann Phillips, “Hello!”
Other early 70s novelties include Frank Perdue discussing his plans to sell chickens under his own name and “cookbook author” James A. Beard commenting on his experience as a judge.
If you remember anything about this festival (which ended in 2014 probably as a result of women having first names) please share them below.
The Delmarva Chicken Festival