Bright-Leaf Hoedown
With the next Hoedown approaching (2022), it is fun to look back.
In 1983, the event featured an annual Farmers' Olympics. Events included cow-chip throwing, tobacco spitting, corn shucking, tobacco gum ball balling, and an obstacle course where the runners had to carry two full buckets of water.
Edgar Harges [Hargis/} of Alamance County won the tobacco spitting even with 19 feet, 1 inch. Don Swann came in second.
W. D. Pleasant of Purley won the cow-chip throwing contest, which attracted ten contestants. He also took first place overall in the Olympics. David Brandon of Burlington came in second overall.
The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 27 September 1983.
The knife photograph is not associated with the newspaper article. Click image to see a larger version.
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