For 57 years, residents of Logan County, have been able to enjoy this annual event in Adairville, an event that is filled with lots of laughter, fun and new memories each year.
Several months ago the loyal few of the Adairville-South Logan Chamber of Commerce decided to give this year's festival the theme of "Our Town," inspired by the Montgomery Gentry hit "My Town.
The words of that song seemed to fit Adairville.
With that thought, plans began for this year's 57th annual Strawberry Festival, which will continue through Saturday before winding down around midnight, Saturday night.
Saturday promises to be a fun filled day beginning at 5:30 a.m. with the pancake breakfast, which has been changed from the fire hall to the Living Word Church and is being done by the Adairville Middle School Cheerleaders.
Arts and Crafts will be on the square all day.
The Strawberry Shoppe opens at 10 a.m. as the baby show gets underway at the school at that time. The dignitaries luncheon is at noon at the Adairville Baptist Church.
The parade begins at 2 p.m. with an auction to follow immediately. Gospel music begins at 5 p.m., Sonlight Ministries has a puppet show at 6 p.m. Womanless Beauty Pageant will be at 7 p.m. This is followed by music provided by Dave Allen.
Casey's Rides are here again and will be opening this afternoon, tonight and again at 10 a.m. Saturday. According to former Adairville journalist Betty Barrett, they have been coming for 39 years to the festival and, according to J.D. and Debbie, they are planning to bring Grandpa this year.
One of the highlights on this year's festival is that the first queen of the Adairville-Strawberry Festival will lead this year's festival as Grand Marshal. Ruby Jackson Burr was crowned Adairville Strawberry Festival Queen in 1947, when the long running festival began.
At that time, Adairville had a strawberry processing plant, and O.G. Traughber, owner of the plant, is hailed as beginning that first event.
They had a square dance and crowned a queen. Eighteen-year-old Ruby Jackson, daughter of Bon and Lizzie Jackson and sister of Maynard, Maurice, Jimmy Lee, Paul, Emma Lou (Moore), and Gertrude, was the winner at that first festive affair.
Now, 57 years later and with the theme being centered around "Our Town," Mrs. Burr was asked to be grand marshal. When asked, she responded by saying, "Yes, I would love to. I just turned 75 and I thought you all might have something for the past queens at the 60th festival and was really planning on that, so this is wonderful." She was told that they are counting on her coming in 2006, too.
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