Common Strawberry Pageant returning for 81st yr

BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV) – The favored West Virginia Strawberry Pageant is again in motion this Might in Buckhannon.

This yr’s theme for the pageant is “Strawberry Freedom.”

Organizers stated the pageant is a option to rejoice the strawberry harvest, nevertheless it received its begin in a really completely different approach.

In 1936, the pageant started as a approach to assist native strawberry growers enhance gross sales.

The unique pageant was a day-long occasion that ultimately turned the complete week of enjoyable we all know immediately.

Festivities for the 81st Annual Strawberry Pageant kicks off Might thirteenth and lasts till the twenty first.

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