A small-town event on a grand scale
When birds fly south, it’s time for visitors to flock to the feast of the Urbanna Oyster Festival. By the thousands, visitors will cross the Urbanna Creek bridge and awaken the small town in a grand way, as they have every autumn since 1957.
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posted 11.03.2011
Festival reunions
“It was intense,” said Montoro, who filmed the parade to show her brother, “so he could see it the same as me.” That would be hard to do, said one person in the group. “You’d have to turn the volume up all the way!”
posted 11.09.2011
Sons of Confederate Veterans win Oyster Festival Parade’s top award
The winning entries in the 2011 Urbanna Oyster Festival Parade, sponsored by the Virginia Lottery, are as follows: Bands—1. Lancaster High School; 2. U.S. Army Strolling Dixie Band. Walking or marching units—1. The Florettes Majorettes; 2. General Will C. Lee Chapter of the 101st Airborne Division…
posted 11.09.2011
Macon wins state oyster shucking championship
Clementine Macon of Middlesex County emerged as champion of the 2011 Virginia Oyster Shucking Competition held last Saturday at the 54th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival. Macon defeated the men’s professional winner, James Carter of Center Cross, in the finals. Macon’s time to shuck two dozen oysters was 3:14, compared to Carter’s time of 4:15.
posted 11.09.2011
Watch the 2011 Oyster Festival LIVE from the Sentinel building!
We set up a webcam at our window. On the right, below the frame, is the Middlesex Kiwanis building where folks will be enjoying those delicious oysters all weekend long! Be sure to tune in for the Firemen's Parade at 7 p.m. Friday and don't miss the Oyster Festival Parade on Saturday at 2 p.m.
posted 11.03.2011
Bring your appetites and party hats to the 54th Oyster Festival
The 54th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival is set for Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, and once again good times and a variety of delicious food and lively music are planned for the tens of thousands of expected visitors.
posted 11.02.2011
‘F.D. Crockett’ open for tours at Oyster Festival
The classic log-hulled buyboat “F.D. Crockett” will be on display and available for tours this weekend at the 54th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival. The 62-foot, 87-year-old, nine-log bottom buyboat, one of only three log-hulled buyboats still floating, will be on display at the Urbanna Town Marina at Upton’s Point on Friday and Saturday, November 4-5.
posted 11.02.2011
Oyster Festival will feature plenty of Rappahannock River oysters
For those coming to Urbanna Oyster Festival this weekend to enjoy juicy, fresh bivalves, there’s good news! Whether served roasted, fried or raw, most festival oysters are coming from the Rappahannock River. “The oystermen talk like there are going to be plenty of oysters there. That’s what we are counting on!” Walton said.
posted 11.02.2011
World-class oyster shucker is Oyster Festival grand marshal
Middlesex County oyster shucker Deborah Pratt has been named grand marshal of the 54th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival. Pratt has represented the United States four times in the World Oyster Shucking Championship in Ireland and finished second in the world in 1997.
posted 10.12.2011
Urbanna Harbour Gallery creates Oyster Festival poster
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Urbanna Harbor Gallery and Art Services is still fresh out of the box, but stitching itself into the community’s tapestry as rapidly and deeply as time and personnel will allow. Among their most recent efforts, business owners Cloyde W. Wiley III and his wife, Barbara Hartley, have scored the winning entry for the 2011 Oyster Festival poster contest.
posted 10.06.2011
‘Life savers’ are honorary grand marshals
The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation has named Allison Payne and Greg Harrow as the Honorary Urbanna Oyster Festival Grand Marshals for the 54th annual festival set for November 4-5. The foundation is honoring Payne and Harrow for their efforts in saving the life of 5-year-old Sean West, son of Bonnie and Eugene West of Deltaville.
posted 10.05.2011
Deltaville boatbuilder named Oyster Festival Captain
Willard Norris of Deltaville has built wooden boats all his life and also was an oyster inspector with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC). Because of lifelong work with boats and oysters, the Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation has named Norris the Captain of the 54th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival on November 4-5.
posted 09.28.2011
