From The News Journal here in Delaware:
The 2005 World Championship Punkin Chunkin begins today and runs through Sunday. The usual assortment of Folks With a Lot of Time on Their Hands already have assembled in their appointed lots. (Whoever is in No. 21 is right next to Larry, for those who are concerned about where Larry is).
This year’s flinging will include 100 machines from across the country and the Big Pond. The devices will include 29 air cannons, about five centrifugal machines and the rest some variation of catapults, says Frank Shade, the effervescent president of the Punkin Chunkin Association.
…Shade says there are two things he wants you to know about Punkin Chunkin:
1. “It’s not just a redneck beer-drinking event,” he says. “Well, OK, it’s a redneck event, but so is NASCAR.” Punkin Chunkin doesn’t sell alcohol, although it’s not going to police the people in the crowd trying to find their own happy place, but it does raise about $70,000 a year for scholarships and charities through an auction and through admission, vendor and entrance fees.
2. We — as a state and a people who value the pure joy and sheer magic of white pumpkins sailing through the blue skies of a Gourd-geous fall day — gotta fight to keep pumpkins flying through the air over Delaware.
Here’s a link to the entire article.
Gotta love this state!
You have those every once and a while my PT guy said. Oh well... - posted on 09/10/2010