Black Jack Grove Day Celebrated With
50's Theme, on Saturday

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

 

Those settlers who camped on the highest point in Hopkins County, back in the mid-1800's, would have been proud to witness the celebration on Saturay, as Cumby and her residents came out to honor their founding fathers with Black Jack Grove Day.  The annual homecoming celebration began with a parade down Main Street and plenty of Hopkins County Stew, craft booths, and old-fashioned visiting. This year's theme centered around the 1950's, with poodle skirts, Brylcream hair oil, and t-shirts certainly in fashion vogue for the event.

 

 

"Black Jack Grove Day is an opportunity to come home to Cumby and see all the people you went to school with," exclaimed one of Saturday's patrons. "Everybody tries to make it back for the annual celebration, where everyone has a good time!"

 

 

The rain "held-off" for Saturday's celebration and the weather was "a bit muggy" but that didn't dampen the spirits of the youth who participated in the parade or their adult counterparts who enjoyed the visiting and the Hopkins County Stew. "We look forward to coming out and relaxing," allowed another patron. "It's a day that has become a tradition, when members of our community can come together and have a great time. It's about the only time besides a funeral that we all get together, and this is an enjoyable occasion!"

 

 

If Saturday's crowd was any indication, the tradition is alive and will continue for a long, long time, as means of "keeping in touch" with Cumby!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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