Beaufort Water Festival makes its 54th appearance today and concludes on Sunday, July 19th. In between, there will be concerts, a parade, dance, races and competitions, crafts, talent and antique shows, watercraft tours, and plenty of libations, both of the alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties.
Details can be found in a variety of media including the Beaufort Gazette, (yes, I know that this goes to the Island Packet website but that's just the lay of the land now), the [print only] Island News, the [online only] Beaufort Tribune, and on the Water Festival's website.
I posted local poetess, Edith Bannister Dowling's poem about the Water Festival on July 15, 2008.
For the more research minded, the Beaufort District Collection has a few relatively fragile scrapbooks about the Water Festival during the 1960s in our archival holdings. We'll be happy to show you the scrapbooks if you come in to the Research Room during our regular hours of operation.
Please note: Charmaine, our Beloved BDC docents, and I will show an in-house customer any in-house material we have (that is, if we can find it within a reasonable amount of time in this incredibly overcrowded workspace and public research room). Just don't come expecting to take home copies of any of the images or pages of the scrapbooks! For details why this is, read the "Eternal Conundrum" entry that immediately precedes this one.
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